http://www.reluctantrunner.net/marathons-and-memory-a-study/ Thu, 19 May 2011 18:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.reluctantrunner.net/marathons-and-memory-a-study/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Mr. Patrick Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:26:23 +0000 http://www.reluctantrunner.net/?p=615#comment-202 Haha that is a very good point Trish. This is a very interesting blog entry. In my opinion meditation and relaxing the mind to a point where you described you felt after your meditation sessions should dramatically improve runner's performance. Yes you have to be in great physical shape to run a marathon but so much of it is mental. When you allow the "how am I ever gonna finish this race" and "there's no way I can do this...I'm only half way done!" into your mind, you panic, and your performance weakens and you are less likely to finish or perform well. A peaceful mind should prevent a marathon runner from panicking and allow them to perform well in my opinion Haha that is a very good point Trish. This is a very interesting blog entry. In my opinion meditation and relaxing the mind to a point where you described you felt after your meditation sessions should dramatically improve runner’s performance. Yes you have to be in great physical shape to run a marathon but so much of it is mental. When you allow the “how am I ever gonna finish this race” and “there’s no way I can do this…I’m only half way done!” into your mind, you panic, and your performance weakens and you are less likely to finish or perform well. A peaceful mind should prevent a marathon runner from panicking and allow them to perform well in my opinion

]]> http://www.reluctantrunner.net/marathons-and-memory-a-study/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Trish Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:18:29 +0000 http://www.reluctantrunner.net/?p=615#comment-199 That explains why most marathon and ultra runners come back for more - they forget what they went through! Also why we seem brainless to those who don't run. That explains why most marathon and ultra runners come back for more – they forget what they went through! Also why we seem brainless to those who don’t run.

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