Cooler weather brings more mats in the yoga space, more mats bring more students, more students bring more distraction. My natural set point of having an overly active/wandering mind has been in overdrive. Even for me. Thus, even the holding of Warrior 2, a pose I see at nearly every yoga practice, feels unbearable. I twitch, move around, try counterposes sorta hoping no one else notices my fidgeting, desperately wanting to get out of the pain that resides in my body.
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Never has 12:07 minutes felt longer to me. That is exactly how long it took me to run a mile today in a "mile challenge" at Orange Theory. This might not seem significant to anyone else, except in my mind. However, as I stepped up on the treadmill this morning, nervousness and overwhelming feelings of not being good enough ran through my head.
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Fear has two meanings:
Forget everything and run
Face everything and rise
You choose. If you've made it past the title of this post you're either:
Curious about running a marathon
A marathon runner
A family member/friend reading just to be supportive, which is lovely too....
Caught my purposeful use of quotation marks around "marathon" and are curious what I meant
