Yesterday, something most peculiar happened while I was out on my morning run.
It was one of those awful damp days where I somehow ended up soaked through even though it wasn’t raining and half-blind because my glasses kept steaming up. Not to mention feeling like I was developing frostbite of the lung from gulping down the frigid air.
Suffice it to say, I was not a happy bunny and was of half a mind to jack it in and go home.
But I didn’t.
Why?
My thin, attractive, and, as of this writing, pregnant wife has recently completed a marathon spread out over twelve weeks.
That might not sound like much, but when you consider that she did it:
1) During her third trimester of pregnancy, and,
2) Having only started running seriously maybe a year ago,
It’s quite the achievement.
What’s more, she did her last mile just a couple of days before going into hospital for a procedure called an external cephalic version (ECV) to flip our little one from breech to the head-down position, with all of the concomitant anxieties that brings.
Anyway.
As I was plodding along like a grumpy rhinoceros, moments away from calling time and heading home, the thought of Jess slogging through a run while carrying a giant baby with a stomach full of butterflies popped into my shiny bald head, inspiring me to press on.
And press on I did, in honour of my wonderful wife and mother of my children.
Why is this “most peculiar”?
Because up until now I have been the one doing the inspiring.
When we met, Jess didn’t train much at all, but she followed my example (without any convincing, cajoling, or coercing) after seeing the positive impact having a healthy (i.e. non-obsessive) relationship with exercise had on my life.
But now she has achieved something so incredible I am the one looking to her as an example.
While we are on the subject of changes in thinking, one of my books “ButterBrain” examines 72 cognitive biases and logical fallacies that explain why you’re struggling to get (and keep) results from your training.
Obviously my analyses are somewhat superficial because I am not a psychologist or rhetorician, but this does mean they are simple to consume, ponder, and, potentially, act upon.
This is another one of my relatively inexpensive books (£3.50 for the eBook, £11 for the paperback) and it is available exclusively from Amazon via the below link.
However.
The book currently has no reviews whatsoever (because I haven’t gotten around to promoting it yet) so if you can’t afford to risk £3.50 or £11 on a book that might not be to your tastes, don’t buy it.
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman
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