{"id":2194,"date":"2014-07-14T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T08:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2015-06-17T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T12:07:31","slug":"monday-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/monday-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Last Monday’s session was hard. Really, really hard.  I know that a lot of runners have a mantra for when the going gets tough; mine is it’s not meant to be easy, <\/em>and, <\/em>usually, it gets me through. On this occasion, it let me down and the main thought in my head as I sprint-plodded on through the set was “why am I doing this?”.<\/p>\n

I made it through but the experience got me thinking about some other whys – namely, why are there 15 of us sweating it out on a Monday night? And why haven’t I asked the people who keep me going every week what keeps them going?<\/p>\n

So I asked. I can’t do justice to everyone’s story in a single post, but there’s few snippets below of some the fantastic responses I got. Now I have an idea of what’s going through my friends minds as they put in the miles, the next time my mantra fails, I’ll have back-up. Expect to hear a lot more from these guys.<\/p>\n

\"Monday<\/p>\n

“I was taken by a moment of inspiration to try to do something to help others, even if I couldn’t help myself… This led me to sign-up for my first marathon, in memory of my grandmother. She never gave up on me, so I felt it running for the Macmillan nurses who made her final time more bearable was a good piece of gratitude<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“ Running is amazingly good for your mental health (it helps me stay happy and positive and it has taught me that I am far stronger than I thought I was) and it is also an extremely effective cure for insomnia!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I started running 2 years ago after being told by doctors to improve my fitness. I couldn’t of hated it more at first but then as my fitness improved, so did my love for running. I have had many setbacks in the 2 years since I started running but with the help of lovely friends and supportive running groups (run-through!) I have still managed to keep it going.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I started running in 2011 partly to get over an ex and partly to lose weight. After several years of doing karate and cycling I felt it was time for a different sport that would feel a bit more satisfying and challenging. 3 years on, I’ve dropped 3 dress sizes, lost 2 stone and been happier than I’ve ever been due to the amazing feeling you get when you complete each run.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Monday<\/a>

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  Last Monday’s session was hard. Really, really hard.  I know that a lot of runners have a mantra for when the going gets tough; mine is it’s not meant to be easy, and, usually, it gets me through. On this occasion, it let me down and the main thought in my head as I sprint-plodded on through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}