This really resonates with me and I appreciate hearing this message in a running culture that so often seems to elevate the “stay hard” mentality. Thanks for putting this out there.
Right?! Feels so necessary to also have an alternative to embrace in some situations. Sure, sometimes you need to just suck it up and grind it out, but not always. And importantly, I’ve found “grind culture” and “Stay hard” isn’t often focused on peak performance, speed or efficiency. It’s more applied to just putting your head down and getting something done.
So I was seeking an alternative as I aimed to stay smooth and quick under duress.
I completely agree. Particularly as the conversation around psychological limiters of fatigue and performance continues to develop I feel like we need to center “soft” methods of openly embracing and accepting discomfort as a part of endurance sport, rather than leaning farther into the ‘grit your teeth’ mentality which feels to me to be ill-equipped to make us better runners.
This really resonates with me and I appreciate hearing this message in a running culture that so often seems to elevate the “stay hard” mentality. Thanks for putting this out there.
Right?! Feels so necessary to also have an alternative to embrace in some situations. Sure, sometimes you need to just suck it up and grind it out, but not always. And importantly, I’ve found “grind culture” and “Stay hard” isn’t often focused on peak performance, speed or efficiency. It’s more applied to just putting your head down and getting something done.
So I was seeking an alternative as I aimed to stay smooth and quick under duress.
I completely agree. Particularly as the conversation around psychological limiters of fatigue and performance continues to develop I feel like we need to center “soft” methods of openly embracing and accepting discomfort as a part of endurance sport, rather than leaning farther into the ‘grit your teeth’ mentality which feels to me to be ill-equipped to make us better runners.
LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing....
Love it. Rigid systems break. Write a little something about toughness myself: https://runninglightly.substack.com/p/what-is-toughness-anyway
Great post! Reminds me of Do Hard Things by Steve Magnus.