I agree wholeheartedly with Bhairava. Having a great collection of songs that get you going help a lot. Also, if you use the same track list every time you run, it can help you keep a good pace and get that consistency up. For the longest time, I was not a runner at all. Then I signed up for a half-marathon. I found a training schedule that I knew would have me ready for it in time and told everyone I knew that I was going to run it. This gave me a solid goal, and a solid plan of what I had to get done each day to acheive it. This was key for me because without some purpose, I found the benefits of running difficult to quantify. |