As a runner, you may be really different from ordinary people

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When colleagues ask you what you do on the weekend, you always say, “Oh, just go for a 20 kilometer run on Sunday morning.” When you use the map to check the distance, you always think how this distance can be used for half an hour

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It’s only 3 kilometers

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It’s only 10 minutes to run

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When life is too stressful and you feel tired physically and mentally, you don’t want to go drinking and dancing, you just want to go out for a run

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For runners, in some ways we’re really special

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It turns out that the brain of a runner is really different from that of a normal person

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The brain habits of runners enable us to become better runners, more endurance and more persistence

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A recent study in the Australian Journal of psychology looked at the link between running and resilience

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Twenty super horse runners and twenty ordinary people of the same sex and age formed a team

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The subjects completed questionnaires about emotion regulation, personality traits and resilience, and scored each expression according to their recognition

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They were then shown a set of 36 pictures of neutral everyday objects and pictures that elicited strong emotional reactions, such as bloody crime scenes and wounds

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As they looked at the images, the researchers measured the subjects’ heart rate and skin conductance, and recorded their natural responses as part of an emotional regulation survey

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The researchers found that, in the results of the questionnaire survey, runners’ psychological resilience scores were significantly higher, and they were able to better regulate their emotions and actively reconstruct the coping environment

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The heart rate and skin conductance of the runners were also lower when they watched the stimulating pictures

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In this way, we runners can be said to have better psychological resilience, and have better resistance to external stimuli

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At present, it is not clear whether the physical behavior of running can build up and enhance psychological resilience over time, or whether people are naturally attracted to participate in the sport due to their psychological characteristics and become long-distance running enthusiasts

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But it can be clear that improving resilience is very helpful for success in long-distance running

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Whether you want to improve your 5K or plan to train for a super horse race, it’s as important to build up your mental toughness as it is to build up your muscles and physical strength

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We’ve all had this experience

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When it rained outside, I was lazy and didn’t want to go out

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Not to mention going out for a run and getting wet all over

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It’s more appropriate to stay at home and drink a little wine and watch a movie

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It’s so relaxing

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After watching the movie on the sofa, stay in bed for another 30 minutes and tell yourself to run when the weather is fine tomorrow

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When we don’t want to run, we all have this idea in our mind

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It’s not a bad thing to have such an idea

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It’s a problem to conform to it

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When you have this idea, you must let it go and ignore it

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Run when you are tired, when you don’t want to run, when you feel sluggish and your legs feel heavy, and when you feel anxious, you have to run when it’s raining and facing the wind

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Stick to your promise and keep running when you don’t want to

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This will enhance your resilience

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Psychological resilience is the quality of all long-distance runners, which must be included in the training plan in order to succeed in long-distance running

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Keep running when you don’t want to

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Only by doing this can you become a real runner

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The secret of running is to talk to yourself

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In the heart of silent dialogue, you can also speak out loud

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What if people think you’re crazy? In fact, many people think runners are crazy

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But I tell you, it’s the best crazy way you can have

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At 75% of the progress, the good mood disappears

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Now, all you can feel is pain

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Every time you land on your feet, all you can think of is stopping

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Your mind, your muscles, even every cell is screaming to stop you

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It’s like a melody that starts with a step

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Stop

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However, with this idea, we must not stop ourselves

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If you have this kind of voice in your mind, you must resolutely stop it

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You’ve just run 19 km, why stop at 20 km? How many one kilometers have you run in your life? One kilometer is nothing

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Run, keep talking to yourself

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Only when you keep running can you feel the charm of running

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When your body is used to running, you will feel the pleasure of running more and more

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When you’re not happy, put on headphones and go out for a run, away from reality

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Warm up for the first 3 kilometers and then take a big step forward

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You don’t have to look at your watch or running app every few minutes

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Your mind begins to pull out of your body, leaving you and the road in front of you

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When you concentrate on running, it seems that you only notice these

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Alternate your feet forward

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Again and again

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You focus on the music, or the thoughts in your head, or you may not think about anything, just yourself and the road ahead

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Running needs toughness

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Tough people become runners

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Is it because we are resilient that we run? Or is it because we run that we become resilient? It’s a question of chicken or egg, but it’s clear that the training mentality is mainly to train endurance and enthusiasm, which will improve the stability, performance and pleasure of running

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By sticking to it (even when you don’t want to run), giving positive affirmations repeatedly when you’re in trouble, and embracing the days when you run at your body’s pace, you can train yourself to be a real runner

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To be a runner, the last thing to do is celebrate

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When you finish a big game, celebrate

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When you finish a short fast run, celebrate, because even if you don’t want to run, you stick to it

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When you run a kilometer, another kilometer, and then another kilometer, you can celebrate

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Hum in the shower, make yourself a big meal, relax your muscles, and then go out and start a cycle again

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Because once your brain has tasted the benefits of long distance running, it can’t stop

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A day runner, a lifetime runner..

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