I have been reading a book about running by Jeff Galloway. It is actually quite interesting. For one, it says that our stomachs are built to be grazers. Therefore, we should be eating small meals every hour and a half or so to keep up our blood sugar and to ensure we are refueling our bodies properly. When you start to run for long distances keeping all your BSL's and all those other acronyms up is important. But I don't know about you but I just don't have the presence of mind to eat that often...it actually sounds exhausting. But I am trying to at least not just have one big meal a day which I tend to do.
Another thing he talks about is tricking your mind into thinking a certain way. He says your left side of the brain is the one that controls logic and is the one always telling you in a round about way that you can't do things. It relies on logic, and logically running a long race is something your body is not made to do. So, in order to twart this you need to make the right side of your brain go active. You can do this by thinking imaginatively. For example, one of things I started doing yesterday was imagining that I had a rope that I carried with me. Along my run I lassoed mail boxes with my rope that was like a bungee cord. I imagined myself being pulled along by the rope. Once I got to said mailbox, I threw my rope to another mailbox up ahead. I did this and it really did work. The other thing I did was to imagine that every time the wind blew ...since it was a windy day...that I was being sprinkled with energy. Crazy I know but it frigging worked :) These imaginative ideas distract you from the task at hand.
So I began to think the next time I feel myself listening to my left brain I should push my right side into heavy gear. Of course it might not be healthy in all situations, we tend to be logic for a reason. But heck to get me through the day why the heck not?
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