Three Reasons to Feel Good About Bad Runs

Your run turned into a crawl? It's still GOOD! #go #run Ask Coach Jenny: via @RunnersWorld

I'm training for my first half-marathon and had an awful long run last weekend. I only have six weeks left to train and I'm starting to worry I won't be prepared. Do you have any tips to get my mind back on track? Thanks. -Susan Hi, Susan. You may be surprised to read that there are many benefits to a having a long run so brutally hard that it makes you question your sanity for signing up for the half-marathon to begin with. Here are three that come to mind: Opportunity for Growth. We can learn much more from the runs that humble us than the ones that go so well we hardly take notice. Bad runs inspire us to evaluate what went wrong. How many long runs have you had this season after which you sat back and thought about what went right? A brutally hard long run is an opportunity to refine your training process to avoid making any mistakes that might have led you to the tough...

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