First Marathon

You’ve got this. Start by seeing yourself past the finish line tomorrow and work yourself backwards be a specific as you can feel your body at each moment as you work backwards to the present. See yourself in your kit in your outfit and in your body see yourself out there on the course. Work backwards from the finish. You’ve got this. See you at the finish line.

Now what?

shake it out

what to think about in the week before the marathon, enjoying your taper in the power of recovery

you will find Yoga to be a tremendous help as a runner.

Taking a whole day or two even to rest each week is key to allowing your body to repair. Dont take my word for it. I resisted too. When you injure you will need to take the time but dont wait for an injury to start.

coaching yourself to push yourself training for a marathon requires you to push yourself be on your boundaries no one is going to push harder than yourself and no one’s gonna actually let you go to soft like yourself. Don’t let yourself be soft push yourself beyond what you’re capable of by asking yourself can you run faster and if you can’t hit the gas

First you pick your race snd work backwards

Let’s begin again to consider how to think about running our first marathon with a beginner’s mindset.

You are doing this for you. Not for anyone else. Bank mental resilience every chance you get. Youre gonna be happier. Ps. I ran 8 miles after this podcast was published.

One month since vertigo. How I am managing my self and taking care of myself. Most of it is listening to my body and trying new things.

This episode is about starting up again after an i jury or illness. I am happy to report that I ran today after a two week break after sudden vertigo. Here is how I did it.

Cardio was solid and body felt strong are two good reasons running rocks

reflections on listening to my first episode

Strong confident and proud. Truly loved it.

short ep on visualization night before

excitement in the air

the role of rest. run average weekly mileage and garmin data

What happens when we learn to loosen our grip on thoughts including fears? Can we have a more joyful experience? In our run? In life?

Update on running w tailwind and electrolyte snd the IT band issue.

this just wraps up the visit to the chinese medicine doctor

how treatments help and what they are like

Update as well as alignment

what do you control? almost nada. what do you want today?

you must push yourself beyond to get stronger. it is not my expectation but yours that you must push towards. even just for a bit. set yourself towards your goals. no one elses

How you want to finish may determine what type of training you do and how you spend your time training on this journey towards your first marathon. Tell me what you want

Do this for you and pick a short want and run there. Youve got this

Does it Help you stay present ? how does it help you feel? How does it help you set your wants/intention how does it help you manifest what it is you want to feel the next moment we’re at the end of summer comp shit going towards?

Visualization works. How you feel now is mostly beyond your control but there are three things you can do that you can control. One of them is relaxation and then visualizing from end backwards. This time we will start past the end.

Emotional energy: can it be managed?

Your whys may not have changed. Your running however may need some change. How do we manage the changes in our life to build strength?

Such an exciting experience. Pushing myself towards new heights.

What does the universe have in store for me today? A group of runners. What a blessing to meet G and his Groupchatters at todays group run

Swimming and hydration are key. Practice relaxed breathing

On Aug 7 I ran Coast to Coast on Nantucket. A look back at lessons from today back and forward and UTMB shout out

The hard truth: long runs are hard. But how you narrate it either builds you or is not useful.

Why will you run? Who is this for and why? Well, it will make a big difference if it starts with you.

You deserve to feel strong. The question becomes whether your willing to give that gift to yourself.

Thoughts about how I felt week following Ojai Marathon and plans to run from start to Mile 16 or so of LA Marathon.

Strong comfortable and proud. My fifth marathon in the books.

The visualization.

With three weeks before Ventura Marathon, Gregory talks about what he is thinking about now, and what he thot about three weeks before his first marathon

Schedule for five weeks out and organizing time

Thoughts on mindset

Marathon as a training run

Thoughts, practice and mindset after all these years

Schedule rest nutrition hydration and visualization

Thoughts on a running plan, my inner refuge as my why. Flow state.

Could I coach myself now? For this next cycle? What about your plans?