Is it to lose weight, indulge in carbs, run a marathon or let go of stress? Whatever your reason, keep it in the back of your head.
Let music push you through the toughest runs. Listening to music can help with picking up the pace and letting go of negative thoughts. Need a few song suggestions? Check out this epic playlist that will keep you going from your first mile to your last. Keep running simple. Run mile by mile, not by how much more you have to run. The stronger your legs and core, the easier they will work.
This will help your stride and pace, making you a strong runner—and help you feel light on your feet. Give this TRX workout a try to help you gain core and leg strength. Members receive ongoing support from certified coaches, race guides, videos, interviews with experts, and more All for less than 1-on-1 run training. By Karien Potgieter Oct 28, 0. Rate this Article: 0 1 2 3 4 5. How does running become easier? How long does it take the body to physiologically adapt to the rigors of running?
Tips for hanging in there until it gets easier So what do you do until it gets easier? Here are some tips from running legend, Hal Higdon: Start slowly.
Do your own thing. Forget about everyone else and run a pace that is suitable to your fitness level. Choose the scenic route. Distract your mind by choosing running routes with beautiful scenery. Also switch up your routes often to avoid boredom. Switch up your paces. Instead of always running at the same pace, switch it up from one run to another, and also within the same workout.
Briefly running faster should help you focus on good form, while a quick water break can be rejuvenating as well. Run naked.
Without a watch, that is! Every once in a while, free yourself from the pressure of running at a pre-set pace over for a pre-measured distance. Just run for the joy of it. The start of a running journey is not the time or place to overdo it. Make sure that you rest and sleep enough in between runs, giving your body enough time to repair and rebuild itself.
Get a running buddy. Sharing your miles and agony with someone can be wonderfully uplifting. Dress the part. It was easy, to begin with. That easy first half mile was similar to what I was familiar with on the treadmill, I was hardly out of breath, but it was pretty much all downhill. Less than 50 metres into the hill, I was finished. Not finished as in back home and feeling smug. No, finished as in I could not run another step. I walked up the hill and just about managed a jog home when the road levelled off.
I was spent, exhausted. A year-old, seemingly healthy, wrecked by trying to run further than I had done since childhood. Worse was to come. I had discovered two things: running was far from easy and I had no natural talent for it at all.
There were a few, more than 10, feet of climb. And a mile fell-race that was more depleting than probably all the marathons. Not one of those was easy. Neither the 1-mile track races nor the metre repetition training.
I even won a local mile race; it was very low-key, I chose wisely. Running at those events was far from easy and I certainly suffered more than I did on that first attempt of 1.
Likewise, the training. I did have periods when I trained quite hard for a 3rd-rate runner. My fastest marathon was managed on the back of training weeks of miles, with plenty of speed-work mixed in. Running for 10 miles was absolutely easy. Your experience will probably be rather different to mine. There will be similarities, because the more you run, the more able to run you become. They could jog around the track at a very easy pace or even walk.
But, because they are there for a reason to get fitter , they tend to push themselves, often well out of their comfort zones. A 3-mile run might be beyond you right now and perhaps, the very act of running for more than half a minute is a challenge.
But after just 3 or 4 weeks of running, it could be a breeze. We are all different, we have different responses to training, different physical make-up and significantly, different levels of motivation. As we get older, our bodies take more time to recover. So, in that respect, running does get harder as we age. But, we also become more psychologically mature and perhaps our motivation to run changes. When once we were motivated by improvement and new PBs, now we can be motivated simply by the fact that we are able to get out there and run.
Those who start running in later life can actually keep improving for a significant time. That is to say that the positive effects of the training outweigh the negative effects of ageing. But, even those who have been running for many years, can improve in later life. Maybe the body cannot take the workload it used to, but we can offset the ageing factor by training smarter.
If we keep to the same routine, of course running will begin to get harder beyond a certain age. Conversely, if we adapt our training, and maybe include more quality training and importantly, more recovery, we might find running gets easier. One great way to keep motivated and maintain our hunger for running is to use age-grading.
Age grading enables you to monitor and compare your running ability as you get older. So, yes, we might be 3 minutes slower over 10k than we used to be, but age-grading might tell us that we are actually running better than we did back then. The weather does play its part in making running hard or easy.
First of all, the weather can actually stop you even opening the front door. But, as many seasoned runners will confirm, the hardest part of those runs is the first few minutes. The running body generates a huge amount of heat compared to the resting body, but the furnace takes a few minutes to fire-up. One thing that will make running in inclement weather much, much easier is some protective weather kit. Once you are going, running in bad weather can be surprisingly pleasurable and rewarding.
Battling the elements, whilst other people shelter in their homes, creates a warm glow all of its own. Of course at the other extreme is the heat. Some people suffer more than others running when the mercury rises.
Personally, I love running in the heat. Sure I expect to be running slower than normal and will remain cautious about running a long way, especially without hydration.
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