It's All in the Mind
Psychological tips to help your Marathon feel more achievable:
- Reduce mental fatigue by planning proactively a mental taper: avoid overwork and stressful situations in the three or four days before the Marathon.
- Brace yourself: accept unpleasant feelings as something that must be endured.
- Smile every mile: smiles increase your positive thoughts and improve running economy.
- Break down the distance through chunking: for example, 6 X 7 km. Reward the end of each chunk with a gel or short walk.
- Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes: monitor your body and adjust your pace strategy or movement.
- Devise an instructional mantra: a short phrase which you can repeat in your head to remind your body how you run at your best; for example, 'Another mile for David Pyle'.
Use some or all of these tips and remember that, when we are exhausted, what stops is not our physiology but our psychology.
How about a trip down memory lane with a motivational song?
This was recorded for Sport Aid 1986, how many athletes can you name?
Coming up:
Next: On Saturday there will be a video message from David and details of how you can track him and Olivia live on Sunday.
Sunday morning: Will we get a video message from David and Olivia as they wait to start the 2026 London Marathon? Let's hope so, plus updates on their progress.
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