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I seemed to have solved my problem with motivation.

How I hear you ask?  Perhaps some mental coaching?  Maybe a new training regime or eastern meditation?  Peppy songs on my Ipod?

Try good old fashion embarrassment.......after all how could I have not got my run in yesterday and then posted this morning explaining I failed again.  But in whatever shape or form it comes I will gladly take and become best friends with it.  

So this is me paying homage to realbuzz, thanks.

There must be something to be said for embarrassment as a motivator too as I clocked my fasted 10k ever last night, at what I consider to be a very respectable 46 minutes.  Gives me hope that sub 45 for the British 10k is not such a ridiculous target.

As always with my best runs I completely zoned out and the time flew by.  I was having this conversation with my cousin earlier this week when she suggested that I "must enjoy the running as it gives you time to think".  I am afraid I had to sheepishly respond that actually I didn't think at all when I ran.  Am I alone in this phenomenon?  Or is it just my natural state of low level brain activity that causes it? 

She was right however with one thing, I do enjoy the running.  Is it juts me but I become uber aware of my body and hypnotised by the rhythm, every little tweak and stretch becomes magnified and consumes my whole world and in this state of runners Zen I get lost.

How then could motivation ever be a problem when I know nirvana is waiting for me?

The perverse thing is I know it will be.

Running.......all in your head?

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So the alarm went of at 6:30 this morning, my running kit was laid out from the night before and I was all ready to blitz 10k before work.

What happened?

That's a question without a very interesting answer, there is something very alluring about a pillow and duvet, so much so that I gave myself up to it and pretended to forget about my running plans.

Motivation, that's the problem, maybe its the post marathon lull, maybe its laziness, maybe its the red wine......

What ever the reasoning though I am determined not to let the day go by without hitting the pavements of Waltham Abbey.......do you hear that pavements!!! get ready for a pounding tonight........

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