mental point

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.   (Lance Armstrong)


I guess that every runner,whether beginner or pro, get to this point on his run.
you feel like your legs are heavier than ever, and your breathe is just not working, and all of your body systems - which did great until this point - need a giant push just to go one step further. and than you look up, and see - through the wetness in your eyes  - that you got another 1 kilometer to go. uphill. 
That is the mental point - if you cross that point, absobring and consisting all the difficulties that surround you - you feel good.  you feel like a king. you feel like you've beaten your worst opponent (sorry for the cliché) - yourself.

for me - that's what's running is all about  : getting to that mental point, and crossing it. 
but it's not that easy, because I have alot of small mental points that i have to cross even before the run - waking up, getting dressed - when I can not to. But I can convince myself, and do some little tricks that can make it easier for me next time. 
When I run, I have nothing to do but to face it; I'm there, and the last thing on earth that I'm willing to happen is stopping. It's not that easy, and when I was younger I did give up sometimes when it was too hard for me - when my muscles sored, or my breath wasn't good enough. 
But now - I guess that I just didn't understand the concept of running at the time. 
Now I do : getting to those mental points - which attack anyone at any shape - and crossing them.
Crossing that mental point is never easy, and therefore it's worth all the effort.


I just came back from a 5.2 Km run, which was kinda steep - the ending kilometer was all way uphill.
 I felt my legs burning and my breath hobble - and I just said to myself that no matter what - I ain't stopping. So I put on a good song on the Ipod (R Kelly - Burn It Uphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO6C9oZKBxk), full volume - and started  run-dancing. maybe it was physically harder, but it helped me finish with a smile (and a dance).

Nothing feels better, But it doesn't get easier passing that line.