Being motivated when planning to go out running long is quite different to being motivated just before the run. And very different to staying motivated while running. Professionals don’t need such motivation. Running is their life, they are paid to run. They are motivated to win. We, amateur...
Running endurance was probably the last thing on my mind when I started running. Didn’t even know what that meant. I could probably only think of ‘basic survival’ because all I could do was 90 seconds of ‘running’ followed by a minute of gasping for air. That was my running ‘endurance’ back then...