Went for a run with the University Athletics group today. 4 mile 'tempo run' at 70-80% effort. It was very hilly and knackering, but very satisfying. I believe in Flow - or Mushin, to give it its cooler martial-arts name - a mindstate in which you exist solely in the moment and fully immersed in an activity. In running, the best experience is finishing, thinking "wow, that was fast", checking the stopwatch, and then realising you never even started it! You were so in the moment, that time, distance, surroundings, anxieties, other people, etc. .. that is to say, everything.. becomes irrelevant. All that matters is the joy of running. It's pretty cool. And immensely rewarding.
I try to practice it when I can, whilst running and in other areas of my life. But obviously, it's much harder to immerse yourself entirely in an activity you hate. Like revision. Which I didn't do much of, again.
I gotta get stuff done...
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