Running is Mental

How is it April already!? So far its been a good year for me running wise, I haven't been training too hard but I've been a lot more consistent than this period last year, adding a lot more variation to my running, tempo runs, speed work and HR runs this this has helped me massively when it has come to race day. The first one being The GRIZZLY which is a 20 mile mostly trail route down in the seaside town of Seaton in Devon, the seafront is closed off to traffic and the whole weekend is a bit of a party atmosphere, the route is a must for anyone thinking of doing it, beautiful trails/views, coast path, bogs and lots of mud. The support around the course was amazing, you even run through the beer garden of  a pub with bands playing and people cheering you on. The beach sections were absolutely horrid trying to run on those pebbles was energy sapping.  Unfortunately my knee went funny after about 6 miles and I was in agony for the rest of the race but I still managed a pretty re...

    To live is to suffer, to survive is to find the meaning in suffering. I have never really believed in myself, I think when we are young our minds are vulnerable to what we hear, it imprints itself deep inside our subconscious where it controls our lives without us really knowing its happening. All of us at some point will have been told we are not good enough, we are not ready, we cant do it! all of us will have been laughed at for having an idea? a dream? and most of us will go through life never really achieving anything outside the norm because of this, because fitting in is easier, I choose not to fit in. The last 2 years has taught me that we as humans are capable of so much more than we think is possible, you can achieve anything you want, anything at all but you have to be willing to suffer, you have to be willing to sacrifice for your goal, whether that's a long run, a fitness challenge, a new career or different lifestyle, step outside of what's normal challenge y...

I am no expert but for me the main problem around mental health and how its viewed by society is that it can be so on and off, I've heard people say 'you either have mental health issues or you don't' its this kind of attitude that stops people admitting or talking about there problems as they feel as if they won't be acknowledged or brushed off as just having a bad day, This is exactly how I felt and it wasn't until I went to speak to someone that I could see from the outside what was going on.  I finally felt like I could deal with my problems head on and running was my plan of attack. I know my issues will never completely disappear and will always linger below the surface but I now know what worked and I wont allow myself to be controlled by it again. I mentioned in my previous blog that I had started to read, well I'm only really into real life stories, autobiographies and the like and it was around this time on social media that a guy called David Gogg...