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Mentally “giving up” 3/4s of the way through tempo runs
I don’t know if anyone has any experience with this, but I am finding I am having a mental block around km 8/9 of my faster runs. I don’t feel exhausted and all of a sudden I am like “a faster 5km is probably enough” or “you’re already not going to meet x pace so might as well just make this a recovery run”
Today the stoppage was “well you’re already going to break 50 so can slow down for 2” despite the fact I could have done better.
Anyone else? Any strategies? It doesn’t matter how much I hype myself up beforehand.
I run 70km a week so I don’t think it’s a fitness thing?
u/ImaginaryMethod9 — 9 days ago