Not really that slow

Lack of respect for my own times makes me disrespect slower peop wrote:

I ran about a 40 flat 10k today, and it was a PR, but I was left think about how to get in to Boston I'd only be able to be maybe a couple seconds per mile slower in a MARATHON, and how I'm just not there or even close right now, and how that means I'm actually quite slow. Then someone tells me about her over 50 minute 5 miler, and I though "wow, you're REALLY slow". Thinking of myself as slow makes me think of people slower than me as basically tortoises, and that is most people still, and it probably isn't good to think about how slow everyone in when they tell me their race times. How can I get over this mentality?

Lack of respect for my own times makes me disrespect slower peop wrote:

Frick, I reversed title and user name. Body should be enough tho.

Lack of respect for my own times makes me disrespect slower peop wrote:

How can I get over this mentality?

Lack of respect for my own times makes me disrespect slower peop wrote:

I ran about a 40 flat 10k today

roadenjoyer wrote:

I'm 40 something 10K runner. I don't know about you, but the races I've been vast majority of people slower than me are just larger and/or more muscular people who I'm sure if they were as light as me would've dust me. So I respect everybody. Only a small portion of the slower runners I observe are with my bodytype and I assume they are more casual about running and have different priorities, or just began. So there isn't really a reason to feel lack of respect towards anybody...

I only disrespect runners in races. I try to attach myself behind some guy and use him as a pacer or to block the wind in head wind conditions. :D

Lack of respect for my own times makes me disrespect slower peop wrote:

I mean, I'm often top 10% in my male 25-29 age group, which if I looked at from the outside I'd think is of course nowhere near elite, but not bad at all for a normal person, but looking at it from the inside I just always see myself as slow.

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Lack of respect for my own times makes me disrespect slower peop wrote:

I mean, I'm often top 10% in my male 25-29 age group, which if I looked at from the outside I'd think is of course nowhere near elite, but not bad at all for a normal person, but looking at it from the inside I just always see myself as slow.

Looks like you posted less than 7 hours apart from last night to this morning. Get at least eight hours of sleep every night. That should enable you to train better and recover better. That’s how you get faster. That may help you stop worrying about this nonsense.