5 Meaningful Ways to Measure Running Success Beyond Getting Faster

Just focus on moving my feet forward, one after the other. That’s the only thing that matters.

attention to the sensations of the run, we may notice a sound that our brains usually filter out as unimportant or a smell that reminds us of a meaningful memory. When it comes to our overstimulated sense, vision, picking out a small detail can bring something novel and beautiful to the run. Jay Shetty spoke of this concept in his book Think Like a

Courir contre le temps n’est pas l’important. Pour moi maintenant, voilà ce qui est devenu beaucoup plus significatif : quel plaisir je prendrai, avec quelle satisfaction j’arriverai au bout des quarante-deux kilomètres de course. Les choses auxquelles je goûte, celles qui ont de la valeur, ne s’expriment pas en chiffres. Je cherche à tâtons une fi

Not every “hard” workout has to be a killer session. You can sneak in more quality without going to the well by stopping at a track, on a hill, or an obstacle-free stretch of road toward the end of a run and doing a few up-tempo repeats between 200 and 800 meters.