Did my first ‘run’ outside this year. (Took a partner around with me for company) found myself thinking ‘this is so hard!’ Over and over and over again. I decided that I needed to do a little mid run thought work. So - what’s the real circumstance? The best I could come up with was that running outside requires more focus to keep the desired pace then running inside. My unintentional thought was ‘this is hard’ which makes me want to quit - and probably makes it less likely I’ll run outside again. My new intentional thought could be ‘I just need to practice more’ and the feeing is ‘challenged’ in a good way. And the result I ‘practice’ running outside more.

At the end of the run I stopped my Garmin and got a notice that I had run the fastest mile (while wearing my watch) plus... RunBet is done whoop!! Just did 25 runs instead of 21 cause I did four that didn’t count.

Only bad thing is hubby thinks I broke the dog...

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