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2007-07-30 7:43 AM
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From the movie "Gallipoli"
"What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard. Well let's see you do it!"

2007-07-30 8:07 AM
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jennylee77 - 2007-07-29 12:31 PM

And during the ride portion--up the tough climbs, it was the counting part of "Kiss Off" (Violent Femmes): "I take one-one-one 'cause you left me and two-two-two for my family and three-three-three..."

Sigh. I'm gonna borrow a nice zen-like phrase from one of you guys and try to force that into my head next time.


The Femmes are great for long runs/bikes. I usually sing "Blister in the Sun" though.

Getting out of bed to go for the early runs/bikes I will use the Dunkin Donuts matnra of "TIme to make the donuts".

Lately I have been singing "Ironman" by Black Sabbath.. or "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell.

There is just something ironic about singing, "baby, baby where did our love go" as you are trying to make it up a long, steep hill.
2007-07-30 10:29 AM
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bryancd - 2007-07-30 7:43 AM

From the movie "Gallipoli"
"What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard. Well let's see you do it!"


And then do you imagine the runners next to you getting cut to pieces by machine guns?
2007-07-30 10:37 AM
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jmk-brooklyn - 2007-07-30 10:29 AM

bryancd - 2007-07-30 7:43 AM

From the movie "Gallipoli"
"What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard. Well let's see you do it!"


And then do you imagine the runners next to you getting cut to pieces by machine guns?


That's the best part!!!
Such a great movie that nobody's heard of.
2007-07-30 11:47 AM
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well, there are a few depending on the circumstances - in a race if my wave goes out before my husbands wave, it's "keep Mike back, keep Mike back..." over and over till he finally catches me.
Up hills it's ~use your glutes, they're not just for sitting~ from a running clinic
when im dog tired ~run fatter mommy-run fatter mommy~ from daughter who cna't say faster
too many songs to list - current is from Shrek ~Hey now you're a rock star get your game on get paid, hey now. . . . . . "
2007-07-30 11:51 AM
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burn fat burn fat burn fat

2007-07-30 11:53 AM
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Tri-FatBoy - 2007-07-29 12:13 AM While running one of these helps me get along... and remember to breathe. http://www.marinesforever.com/Marine-Cadence.htm~fatBoy http://trifatboy.com[/QUOTE]

 I sing/say cadence in my head during races (sometimes during training runs too).  I remember running long miles (at the time) with the marines (I was Navy) and singing this cadence.  It really made the miles go by.

2007-07-30 12:59 PM
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I can't believe I'm the only one who has the old Cake classic

"He's going for distance, He's going for speed"

Even though the going for speed bit make me laugh at myself.
2007-07-30 1:23 PM
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Well this weekend while I was getting passed by every single person in the field and even lapped by some of those folks that were in the lead pack, my mantra was:

"I am running my own race. Don't try to stick with them, just keep going and you will finish."

Normally I have a mantra that is not well suited for here. I have a tendancy to talk out loud to the hills that I am trying to climb and it usually isn't very nice.
2007-07-30 1:30 PM
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Sometimes late in the going "Everybody Hurts" from REM gets stuck in my head.
2007-07-30 1:40 PM
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I do five-count breathing (out, out, out, in, in), and rhythmic mantras seem to work well for me.

I like:
I can run for days
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I will finish strong (this one got me through my first tri when my legs felt as though they would fall off at any moment)

On a separate note, I hate when songs get into my head, and I had to take a recent Madonna song off my training list on my Ipod because it keeps repeating "time goes by...so slowly, time goes by...so slowly." That is NOT a song I want in my head!

2007-07-30 1:46 PM
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I never really had a mantra, then one day a kid's dog got loose and chased after me.  He was yelling at me, "Run, Lady, Run!"  That's my new mantra when I get tired.  Smile
2007-07-30 2:12 PM
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I have to agree it is not good to have a bad song stuck in your head when doing a long run. But I did find that the easiest way to get a good mantra playing in my head is to say it out loud, even just once and then leave it.. Next thing I know it is playing over and over in my head. I tend to use a lot of my long runs as a form of meditation so it comes in handy.

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2007-07-30 2:22 PM
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I go with the ever-so original "left, right, left, right....". If you're lucky, it results in an almost hypnotic state.
2007-07-30 2:53 PM
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during the run suffer portion of my recent HIM I repeated "donkey don't walk.  donkey don't walk. donkey don't walk."  It was an instruction to myself, a reminder, a creed that I clung to to try to get myself running again every time I had to walk a few steps due to leg cramps.  Just for variety I'd occasionally slip in an obscenity.  For those unfamiliar with the donkeys we call ourselves that due to our stubbornness.  It definitely helped during the race.

2007-07-30 9:01 PM
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during fast training runs and 5ks:

"the only good race pace is suicide pace, and today is a good day to die."
-Pre

always ups my speed.

2007-07-30 10:59 PM
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Listening to a podcast with Peter Reid, he was asked what tricks he used when things really started getting hard on the run.  He said he just starts counting his foot strikes to 20, over and over and over again.

I did this during my half IM last week.  I preferred just counting to 10.  The extra syllables from 11 and beyond seemed like too much trouble.

When I got tired of that I was thinking of my 3 yr old son, and I started doing the alphabet song in my head, again timed to my footstrikes...."A, B, C, D....", is the tune in your head now ;-)

Mindless and simple, and it actually seemed to help.  It took my mind off of everything else and helped me maintain my cadence and rhythm.

-Steve 

2007-07-31 12:09 AM
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I do what TexasMPgal does, but I have a whole series of scriptures that I repeat, like "I will run with endurance the race that is set before me, fixing my eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of my faith." or "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"...

Might sound corny, but when I am starting to focus on how tired, sore I am (that would be almost the whole run!) I start praying for lots of different people, and before you know it I am done! Works for me, anyways!
2007-07-31 12:24 AM
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Sometimes when I am running I repeat to myself over and over "chunky butt, chunky butt". Yes, I know, very silly but it reminds me why I do all of this craziness. Eventually I won't have a chunky butt!!

2007-07-31 6:48 AM
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Steve in IL - 2007-07-30 10:59 PM

Listening to a podcast with Peter Reid, he was asked what tricks he used when things really started getting hard on the run.  He said he just starts counting his foot strikes to 20, over and over and over again.

I did this during my half IM last week.  I preferred just counting to 10.  The extra syllables from 11 and beyond seemed like too much trouble.

When I got tired of that I was thinking of my 3 yr old son, and I started doing the alphabet song in my head, again timed to my footstrikes...."A, B, C, D....", is the tune in your head now ;-)

Mindless and simple, and it actually seemed to help.  It took my mind off of everything else and helped me maintain my cadence and rhythm.

-Steve 

Yeah, I agree that the mindless repetitive stuff works better for me than the fancier thoughts.  At that point in a run I'm just not capable of thinking about things that complex.  Like whole sentences.

2007-07-31 8:43 AM
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My Mantra is something like this:

"Oof, argh, ouch, crap, ugh, ^%&$, gasp. Ooh lookit that babe, passing me in a hurry. Cough, &%*$, ow!"
Repeat until finished or dead.


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