5 Mental Tricks To Run Longer - Overcome the Pain Cave

5 Mental Tricks To Help You Run Longer. These tips will help you in overcome the pain cave by increasing your mental toughness, your resilience, and your discipline.

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Long distance running such as marathon and ultra marathon requires specific training to increase endurance, but beyond fitness, running is also about having a strong mind. A will to push further, challenge yourself and achieve the impossible. Ultra running is really about normal people doing incredible things!

So today, I wanted to share 5 mental tricks that have helped me run longer, both for marathon and ultra marathon. These mental tricks or mental tips will help you on your long run and on race day, when everything hurts but you still have to keep going.

Now let’s be clear, there's no magical solution, but these mental tricks are tools that you need to practice until they become second nature. Some will work better than others for you, and you'll have to find the right one for the right situation.

As always - Thanks for watching and remember -

Work Hard!
Believe in yourself!
Push your limits!

Simon


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