Terri Blevins

“Failure to improve is rarely a physical failure; it’s almost always an entirely mental shortcoming.”
― Nicholas Romanov, The Running Revolution Deluxe: How to Run Faster, Farther, and Injury-Free--for Life

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“For example, on a long, hard run, the physiological, psychological, and mental fatigue associated with a maximum effort sends a danger signal to the body. What started out as a chosen and desired effort is interpreted as life threatening, something to be stopped. Your first response will not be a conscious sense of fear but rather physiological sensations. At this point, in fact, your conscious mind is still giving you full-steam-ahead signals, but the subconscious mind, intent on life preservation, begins sending the body an opposite set of instructions—muscle stiffness and pain, pounding heart, a struggle to breathe, sounds suggestive of dying. The message from the subconscious mind to the body is clear—shut it down.”
― Nicholas Romanov, The Running Revolution Deluxe: How to Run Faster, Farther, and Injury-Free--for Life