Honest question. Once you're done setting PRs and winning races, how do you motivate yourself to keep lacing up the rrunning shoes?
Honest question. Once you're done setting PRs and winning races, how do you motivate yourself to keep lacing up the rrunning shoes?
goober central wrote:
Honest question. Once you're done setting PRs and winning races, how do you motivate yourself to keep lacing up the rrunning shoes?
Age group finishes?
By enjoying the actual act of running, just like I always have. If you don't, take up xbox or something.
It also helps to race against your peers, who are even a little more past their prime.
Sex, scenery, athletic bodies, food, and friends
As others said:
age-group awards/age-graded performance goals
familiar faces/friendly rivalries
supporting races/causes you like
trying a different type of race just for the heck of it because there's no pressure to meet a performance goal
excuse to get out of town and make a day/weekend of it (reward yourself afterward with town festival, outdoor adventure, playing tourist, etc.)
event to get family and friends together doing something than just sitting around
If I run I allow myself to troll letsrun.
It is tough.
If you can't enjoy it past your prime, you're probably not really enjoying it in your prime.
Do you guys think you can get girls by joining running events or running clubs? Does it matter if you're fast, or can you just wing it and run once or twice a week and work off the talent from your earlier years?
Move somewhere with a crap running scene and still be a champion.
rghdghdf wrote:
If you can't enjoy it past your prime, you're probably not really enjoying it in your prime.
Exactly. I haven't raced in years and I enjoy running way more than ever before. Long easy trail runs in the forest on a Sat/Sun morning and easy morning beach runs on vacation are the best.
goober central wrote:
Honest question. Once you're done setting PRs and winning races, how do you motivate yourself to keep lacing up the rrunning shoes?
Been past my prime now for 30 years, still like to run. Particularly trails, keeps me in reasonable shape and uninjured. Also swim and bike and lift. I do occasionally get to the track just see how painful the intervals are and to marvel at how some of the masters runners still have the time and motivation to train and compete. PLUS my wife likes to run with me as well, which makes a huge difference.
bort wrote:
rghdghdf wrote:If you can't enjoy it past your prime, you're probably not really enjoying it in your prime.
Exactly. I haven't raced in years and I enjoy running way more than ever before. Long easy trail runs in the forest on a Sat/Sun morning and easy morning beach runs on vacation are the best.
I still have 2-3 years until my prime, and this is all i have done since college. Less stress, no injuries, don't have to sleep 9+hours a night i think i will stay a hobby jogger for life.
rghdghdf wrote:
If you can't enjoy it past your prime, you're probably not really enjoying it in your prime.
Bingo! If that's the case for you what you were enjoying in your prime wasn't the actual running so much as it was the "payoff" you were getting for your running. Nothing wrong with that but if you were enjoying the actual running you'd have no trouble keeping on.
Do a little research on Johnny Kelley and the answer will emerge.
swaglord wrote:
Do you guys think you can get girls by joining running events or running clubs? Does it matter if you're fast, or can you just wing it and run once or twice a week and work off the talent from your earlier years?
Yes and yes. If you can't get laid, A LOT-- by folks of whatever gender, marital status and sexual enthusiasms-- in a decent sized running club, you're doing it all wrong.
Our shared carnality is one of the beauties of this lifelong sport.
In some ways, it is more fun because you can sleep in and skip a run without freaking out about whether you have destroyed your marathon build up. But it does get frustrating to put the effort in and watch your times get slower. The main motivation ends up being staying thin, being with friends and holding out hope for one more decent marathon or sub XX:XX 5k/10k, etc.
no running, no trolling wrote:
If I run I allow myself to troll letsrun.
true.... true
You race Father Time.
You race gravity (it always wins, right?).
You race yourself. Can you better what you were last year, last month, last week, last time on this route?
You try to keep ahead of mortality.
I find aches, pains, injuries, slowed metabolism, messed up biomechanics a far, far harder opponent than any person I ever raced. Good days are better than any win I ever had.
You can either dry up and wither away, or beat an awful lot of youngsters at the Turkey Trot. It's up to you.
cheap thrills wrote:
Sex, scenery, athletic bodies, food, and friends
all of this and beer.