A mantra I learned this year that I love is: "What's the best that can happen?" It helps me to visualize crossing the finish line feeling good and under my goal time, which keeps me motivated to keep pushing when things get tough.
My mantra is "every step is a victory" and I've had that since I started walking again after a broken ankle. Cause the day after I broke it I thought "what if I can never run again?" So, every step I take is a victory. ❤
My all time favourite mantra is "Because easy doesn't change you". The self made mantra I've had to use in my recent training sessions because the intensity of the training really picked up past 2 weeks (I'm a crossfitter), is "let's give it a go and see what happens". That helped to start workouts which I knew will hurt.
Not exactly a mantra but I heard one of my favourite runners, Sally Mcray saying this today and made my day: “ Any day I can move my body is a good day”! We take things for granted and having a strong body that allows us to do what we want to do is a beautiful gift 💝
Mine is a ::physical shrug:: and I think (or say) “whatever, just keep going.” The shrug matters… physically resets my form and makes me consciously relax. As an ex-sprinter, sometimes the urge to stop is ✨wild✨. The “whatever” encompasses a reminder of how many thousands of miles are behind me in my lifetime. Like whatever, I can do 7 more. Chill. Run. Almost there. ❤
I go back and forth between "You're stronger than you know" and "Embrace the storm" depending on the type of pain cave I'm in. I also often tell myself that I GET to do this and it's a privilege and an honor to put one foot in front of the other. Good luck in Houston, Philly!
My why is that I wasted away from an autoimmune illness for 12 years and now that I'm in remission, I want to see how strong my body can become. I get stronger every day. A year and a half ago my muscles were so atrophied I couldn't even sit up straight. Last week, after three months of training, I ran my first ever half marathon in 1:45. In a few months I'll be running my first ever marathon. I want to run sub 3:30. I want to prove that I can do anything I put my mind to. I want to prove to myself that the years I lost to illness were all for a reason, and that I'm not broken or lost as a result of my suffering. My mantra isn't a single phrase, but an entire way of framing. It's not "I still have ten miles to go," it's "I only have ten miles left." It's not "this hill is so steep," it's "this hill is a worthy opponent." It's about shifting my mindset into a positive and playful tone, which takes the sting right out. I never allow myself to think defeatist thoughts, even when I'm hurting. Positive, positive, positive.
Mantra: When my friends and I are starting to board the Pain Train, our mantra is CCMF. Which stands for “Choo Choo, MFer!” It’s sort of like HTFU, but it’s ours.
My mantra is “I want this”, because it reminds me that I am choosing to suffer, it helps calm down the panic part of my brain, reminds it that it’s okay to be in pain
Great tips! I've found that being consistent has the biggest benefits, for both body and mind. Even getting out the door when it's raining to do a short 20 min recovery run makes you feel so much better once it's accomplished. Sleep consistency will have the biggest positive impact on both your running and your daily life. I don't have a mantra, but when I'm having a tough time during a run I sing "I am the one and only!" to myself by Chesney Hawkes! It always makes me smile and push through! LOVE THE GRIND :D
“Discipline over Motivation” because discipline is something you do and choose to do. You are in control. But motivation is something that will come and go. You don’t choose it or control it. In short “Motivation “ gets you going but “Discipline “ gets you there! 😊🇨🇦
My mantra is, “I’m so thankful that my body enables me to do this”, I tell myself this on every single run that I do. I feel so lucky that I’m able to run and I will never ever take that for granted. It pushes me to become a better person and it’s SO rewarding
I coach myself to run from aide station to aide station in trail races “oh just 5k to go, you run 5k practically everyday…you can easily do this” and when it gets really brutal and I’m praying for death my mantra is usually “you’ve been here before and you always get through it because you’re strong” ♥️ Love your content Phily!!!
Honestly amazing content again, this is exactly why I'm interested in your story philly, watching you not only live what your sharing but also breaking it down to such a base level of understanding is so so helpful to me and people like me. Thank you for these tips. And dan, you're funny af great stuff again 😂
My mantra has always been 'you can do this' because Ive heard its helpful to have a 2nd person mantra as if someone is talking to you (as opposed to 'I can do this'). When the going gets really tough it changes to 'you will do this'...
Your mantra, “I’m fast, I’m fit and I’m in control” absolutely carried me through my last marathon and into a massive PB. I never gave too much thought to the mental side of running until I started watching your channel, and it’s made me a much better runner so thank you!
On a long race like a half or full marathon with about 20% left nothing gets to me, no pump-up songs, no mantra or any other mental hack. What works for me is either run and talk with someone else or just tug along someone else and try to stay with them. In my last half I stayed with a group of women and we passed each other multiple times but it helped me to keep my pace up to a flat race pace of 8:21 and an overall time of 1h49:10 which was about 22 minutes faster than my previous PB. I started running during Covid lockdown because I needed some alone time (4 kids), then I kept on running to prove to my kids that age is just a number and now I am running because I am obsessed with improving my running. There is one thing I think which was missing and that is strength and conditioning. It took me 3 light injuries to finally to get to the point where S&C is becoming part of my training plan and not just a nice-to-have.
I read somewhere that addressing yourself as "you" can be more effective than "I", so I often do "you've got this" or "well done you" after an effort. It feels cheesy but it works!
"Looking good - feeling great!!!" I've been saying that for well over 20 years!! And when the going gets tough, I remind myself that I have 3 college aged daughters who are watching me push myself day after day. And though they don't think about me and my running, they certainly will when they have kids of their own, responsibilities and their body is screaming at them. That's when it will hopefully remind them to never give up.
PB nailing the tips. Rarely have I delivered the ‘result’ after turning up to a race or a session when my mind is not in the room! Flip that and rock up knowing that you’re not as fit as you want to be probably going to get your ass handed to you , yet, but mentally happy that success through failure is part of the process. 9.9/10 in my experience a clear winner of mind over matter!
I broke my leg in January and it was the first time I had to take a few months off of running that weren't by choice. I found myself missing it in a way I never had before and I was itching to do anything to move my body, even if it completely sucked and hurt and didn't go as planned. Since coming back, I have found it easier to push through hard moments by reminding myself that there was a brief period where it wasn't possible and that I dreamed of the ability for a tough session to be the hardest part of my day. So reminding myself "I'm grateful to get to move like this" has been my biggest motivator and has driven me through long runs and fast paces. (love the grind)
Such a great way to use that time to motivate you! I had a running friend who had a foot operation some years back and they’d message me when I had to run super early before work at the weekend because they knew I’d be tempted to stay in bed, similar sentiment, they’d say “don’t you dare think about not running this morning when you know how much I’d love to but can’t”
"When the going gets tough, the tough(er) gets going" - I say this to myself towards the end of a run to motivate myself. It really helps me push myself and finish strong.
My mantra over the past year has been “Be precise, be confident, be strong.” And the other one sort of I stole from Scott Jurek “This is what you do, this is who you are, this is what you were made to do.” 😊 Thanks Philly for the motivation!
Whilst training for my first marathon, on one long run (the longest run ever up until this point) it felt like I couldn’t stop. This wan’t because I was zooming or feeling great but because my legs had been doing the same motion for such a long time it physically felt like that’s all they could do. Out of this was born my mantra of “can’t stop”. Whilst it seems negative and almost punishing, I frame it in a positive light much in same way as saying “I can’t stop dancing”.
Phily, you are so cute. I have heard and read all this before but you present it in a very personal and humorous way thus making it enjoyable to hear it all again. Bravo. Anyway, if you are wondering, my "why" is easy - I have Parkinson's disease and running marathons has stopped its progression. My mantra follows on from this: It's all part of the adventure, be audacious.
"I can do hard things!" That has been my mantra through undergrad, grad school, and all my training and half marathon in october. As i approched mile 8 in my half, someone was holding up a poster that said "You Can Do Hard Things!!" and i was soooo happy to see that at that point in the race. Now i have a 20k trail race and a 30k trail race coming up this winter and i know that mantra will get me through them
Hi Phily, as always i really enjoying your videos. I cant seem to see the calculator for training times regards the 80/20 . I could be my eyes they are older lol . Looking forward to your next educational tips. xx
My Coach told me "A marathon is not over until you decide that it's over" truly something that changed also how I see my daily life with its challenges!
Mine is vilja våga vinna (Swedish) - the will to dare and win, basically. If I’m willing to believe in myself, every session will be a win. And of course - dig deep. Dig f*****g deep when it’s really hard. 😁 Thanks for such an inspiring channel Phily. You are yourself in every video and I love it ☺️
You always put a smile on my face .Your a natural in front of the camera Good luck in following your Olympic dream So make sure you nail on the 14th Happy New year to a very happy couple And good luck in your running journey Daniel
Great video 👏🏼 I think I might have got this one from you (so, thanks): ‘I’m fit, I’m fast, I’m strong’ really works for me. And, less of a mantra, but ‘Stay tall, drive the arms’ helps me focus on my form/stay in the present 😊
Phily, you helped my form during the Chicago marathon - watching you run so beautifully gave me inspiration - I might have been slow, but I looked upright and tall even when it was tough!! - Thank you for your great content!
One of my favourite mantras comes from a quote from the bad guy in Enter the Dragon when he says “ We are unique in that we forge our bodies in the fire of our will” I try to quote that back to myself when I’m really suffering .
I agree with every point except the fueling. Despite being an endurance athlete, I am fat adapted from eating a low carb ketogenic diet. Most of my calories come from fat and protein so I eat 1-2 meals a day and do no fuel before workouts. I rely only on fat as my energy source to get through the most intense threshold workouts.
A mantra or just a thought I keep inside my mind is "I am working hard today for the privilege to work hard in the future" It connects to the: why run and train hard is to be able to run good today and for the next 60 years
In my HM PB recently I found myself repeating “hurt worth it” - short for “make the hurt worth it” because more than three words at that pace is too much. For me it means that I’ve already put in hard work and sacrifice, so to continue the hurt in the moment is to honour what I put past me through.
This is a really REALLY good and succinct set of points. It's not just for elite runners - I ran 39 marathons and was VERY proud of my sub 4 PB and I was saying, ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ as the video went on. My mantra was based on something Ron Hill said in his warts-and-all autobiography... "hang on as long as you can, and keep your mouth shut" 😎
Thank you for your advice Phily (enjoy the marathon!). Attempted my first one beginning of October (while being injured on Ibuprofen). Even though I was not able to finish my first marathon, I still enjoyed it immensely ( the crowd, the atmosphere). It was AWESOME! Thank you for pointing me to the most important thing. Enjoying it! 🙏🙏🙏
I love this. I actually started saying myself a mantra when I saw your video about your lost black book.😢 Mine is "I am strong, independant and determined"
A mantra that sticked with me is the one from the Ryan Holiday's book "Obstacle is the way!" That is also why I do it, to go beyond what I believe are my limits because the obstacle are the way to get there 🙃
Love all this advice . . . your starting to become a good running coach. I just got a new injury and it was from trying a new exercise that I was just not use to so now i have an ankle injury. It's already starting to feel better after 4 days but I'm sad that it took so little of a change in my routine to cause it. I think it's just inflammation and stiffness and not a serious injury. It "almost" feels like the achilles tendon but just to the side of that so it might be a Peroneal Tendon. I go to bed at 8:30 pm and get up at 5am for a workout at 6:30 that takes me 40 minutes to drive to. So I try and go to bed every night to make it a routine lifestyle. I'm a light sleeper so external noises wake me up making it take 8-9 hrs in bed to get 6-7 hrs of sleep. I'm doing this because I want to run and hike and I'm not worried about the time much but about just being able to run at a moderate pace without stopping. If I could just run a trail 10K and finish . . . I'm a LONG distance backpacker so I have all the mantras down pat. As long as I can stay injury free I'm going to do this . . .
Love yhe videa as always... But Daniel is absolutely knocking it out of the park these last few videos. Perfect clips added in as responses to Phily and have me literally busting out laughing. Keep it up, both of you!
Definitely “you got this.” I also think about my kids. And during the later parts of a race I try to reframe the “ouch, this sucks, I want to stop” into “you’ve done amazing and worked so far to get here (both earlier today and all the training leading here), you’ve given yourself the opportunity to smash it, let’s f’ing go!!!” Still working on this though 🤣
I am all about proving to myself that even as i age i can surprise myself. Im not marathon training but focusing on 5k and really have to have a word with myself mid race that the discomfort is short lived. Showing my teenage son not to underestimate the over 50s!
I come in late here, great video, just discovered your channel 😊 Only one point about your 321 tip before sleep, I would love to be able to do that, but I finish work at 5pm at best, then go home, training session at 6pm (if not 8.30 if I go to my club swim session), and only then can I eat anything. So all I can do is eat like 30' before I go to bed x) Not so good I guess
That moment at 9:48 when UA-camrs promise to link something in the description, but only stuff said description with affiliate links and the promised thing is nowhere to be found 😂
I love the long runs. It’s the middle distance that I find annoying. 😂 I also love running in the rain when it’s relatively warm. It’s the negative Fahrenheit winter windchills that are killer.
Excellent video. I appreciate you sharing your tips, from the elite/professional perspective. The one that gets me through each time is THE WHY. When things get tough, I get 'philosophical' and I'm unstoppable. Maybe not fast, but unstoppable. lol. Cheers!
Great video. Luckily, I embrace most of the tips shared. I especially love the "why". I ran the '21 Los Angeles marathon in a Tupac jersey and Kobe shorts to honor their memoy. Knowing that, my why, kept me motivated and I achieved a personal best time.
Great timing Phily - got drenched today - really enjoyed it though cos I had the route to myself and it was peaceful ( driving rain aside! ) - taking myself into a new level of commitment is really quite a powerful thing 😊 Off topic but I bet your outtakes are funny - can Daniel do his magic?
Hi Phily!! Thanks a lor for your suuuper tips 😍 i'm training for a Marathon in March,and i used to run my long run at Marathon pace (most of the time,for the entire lenght of the session). What pace do you suggest to take for the long run?? 😊 Slower than my Marathon target pace? Just a bit faster?
Thanks for sharing this. So for the easy run, will it be in the same distance with long run if we keep adding the mileage to it? What speed do we run long run vs easy run? Thanks 🙏
Will certainly be applying these tips when I’m training for Edinburgh next year. I’ll especially try experimenting more with the fuelling: before my first marathon, I did test out the gels on a few of my long training runs, but with the real thing, I found them becoming a lot less tasty by the third or fourth sachet! It still got me round but there may be a better way to do it.
Discipline solves almost all problems in life. Driven NOT motivated. Motivation ends January 16th for most. A Marathon is far less than the human limit. Learn to suffer voluntarily so when the involuntary suffering comes along you have some callus to mitigate the situation.
I run fast pace for first 1/2 marathon then legs fall apart on back half… ankles and feet hurt and hamstrings get tight. Fitness with heart and lungs is fine however. Not sure if I need longer runs or more speed work to get legs fixed
How about: Just do it Every little helps Maybe your worth it I’m loving’ it Have it your way Because you’re worth it Impossible is Nothing We try harder The Best a Man Can Get
🤣🤣🤣 Oh no, this is going to be stuck in my head now, and drive me bonkers! (I must admit, I sometimes hear Forrest Gump's voice when I'm doing stupid-long runs: "I just felt like running")
A mantra I learned this year that I love is: "What's the best that can happen?" It helps me to visualize crossing the finish line feeling good and under my goal time, which keeps me motivated to keep pushing when things get tough.
“You’ve been through worse” is the mantra I always fall back on
Agreed. I always remember: “someone, somewhere has done something harder than this with less training. stay strong!”
You have been through worse! Wow! I like that; Can I borrow that this morning to get out of my bed 🛌 to the field 😂?
Same! I always go for “you can do hard things/you have done harder things
‘There’s always someone that feels worse than this’ has been helpful to me 😂
"Might as well make it even more worse" is what I think when I'm going through the worst. 😂
My mantra is "every step is a victory" and I've had that since I started walking again after a broken ankle. Cause the day after I broke it I thought "what if I can never run again?" So, every step I take is a victory. ❤
My all time favourite mantra is "Because easy doesn't change you". The self made mantra I've had to use in my recent training sessions because the intensity of the training really picked up past 2 weeks (I'm a crossfitter), is "let's give it a go and see what happens". That helped to start workouts which I knew will hurt.
Not exactly a mantra but I heard one of my favourite runners, Sally Mcray saying this today and made my day: “ Any day I can move my body is a good day”! We take things for granted and having a strong body that allows us to do what we want to do is a beautiful gift 💝
Mine is a ::physical shrug:: and I think (or say) “whatever, just keep going.”
The shrug matters… physically resets my form and makes me consciously relax. As an ex-sprinter, sometimes the urge to stop is ✨wild✨. The “whatever” encompasses a reminder of how many thousands of miles are behind me in my lifetime. Like whatever, I can do 7 more. Chill. Run. Almost there. ❤
I go back and forth between "You're stronger than you know" and "Embrace the storm" depending on the type of pain cave I'm in. I also often tell myself that I GET to do this and it's a privilege and an honor to put one foot in front of the other. Good luck in Houston, Philly!
My why is that I wasted away from an autoimmune illness for 12 years and now that I'm in remission, I want to see how strong my body can become. I get stronger every day. A year and a half ago my muscles were so atrophied I couldn't even sit up straight. Last week, after three months of training, I ran my first ever half marathon in 1:45. In a few months I'll be running my first ever marathon. I want to run sub 3:30. I want to prove that I can do anything I put my mind to. I want to prove to myself that the years I lost to illness were all for a reason, and that I'm not broken or lost as a result of my suffering.
My mantra isn't a single phrase, but an entire way of framing. It's not "I still have ten miles to go," it's "I only have ten miles left." It's not "this hill is so steep," it's "this hill is a worthy opponent." It's about shifting my mindset into a positive and playful tone, which takes the sting right out. I never allow myself to think defeatist thoughts, even when I'm hurting. Positive, positive, positive.
Mantra: When my friends and I are starting to board the Pain Train, our mantra is CCMF. Which stands for “Choo Choo, MFer!” It’s sort of like HTFU, but it’s ours.
Love this one
My mantra is “I want this”, because it reminds me that I am choosing to suffer, it helps calm down the panic part of my brain, reminds it that it’s okay to be in pain
Actually kinda badass, imma use this
Great tips! I've found that being consistent has the biggest benefits, for both body and mind. Even getting out the door when it's raining to do a short 20 min recovery run makes you feel so much better once it's accomplished. Sleep consistency will have the biggest positive impact on both your running and your daily life. I don't have a mantra, but when I'm having a tough time during a run I sing "I am the one and only!" to myself by Chesney Hawkes! It always makes me smile and push through! LOVE THE GRIND :D
I like singing to myself in place of a mantra as well, though I seem to pick a different song every time.
“Discipline over Motivation” because discipline is something you do and choose to do. You are in control. But motivation is something that will come and go. You don’t choose it or control it. In short “Motivation “ gets you going but “Discipline “ gets you there! 😊🇨🇦
I love this 👏🏼
My mantra is, “I’m so thankful that my body enables me to do this”, I tell myself this on every single run that I do. I feel so lucky that I’m able to run and I will never ever take that for granted. It pushes me to become a better person and it’s SO rewarding
An attitude of gratitude! ... (I like it)
I coach myself to run from aide station to aide station in trail races “oh just 5k to go, you run 5k practically everyday…you can easily
do this” and when it gets really brutal and I’m praying for death my mantra is usually “you’ve been here before and you always get through it because you’re strong” ♥️ Love your content Phily!!!
Honestly amazing content again, this is exactly why I'm interested in your story philly, watching you not only live what your sharing but also breaking it down to such a base level of understanding is so so helpful to me and people like me. Thank you for these tips. And dan, you're funny af great stuff again 😂
Thank you for such lovely feedback! ❤️
My mantra has always been 'you can do this' because Ive heard its helpful to have a 2nd person mantra as if someone is talking to you (as opposed to 'I can do this'). When the going gets really tough it changes to 'you will do this'...
Your mantra, “I’m fast, I’m fit and I’m in control” absolutely carried me through my last marathon and into a massive PB. I never gave too much thought to the mental side of running until I started watching your channel, and it’s made me a much better runner so thank you!
Ah I love this, it’s a really calming one!
On a long race like a half or full marathon with about 20% left nothing gets to me, no pump-up songs, no mantra or any other mental hack. What works for me is either run and talk with someone else or just tug along someone else and try to stay with them. In my last half I stayed with a group of women and we passed each other multiple times but it helped me to keep my pace up to a flat race pace of 8:21 and an overall time of 1h49:10 which was about 22 minutes faster than my previous PB.
I started running during Covid lockdown because I needed some alone time (4 kids), then I kept on running to prove to my kids that age is just a number and now I am running because I am obsessed with improving my running.
There is one thing I think which was missing and that is strength and conditioning. It took me 3 light injuries to finally to get to the point where S&C is becoming part of my training plan and not just a nice-to-have.
'Fun, Finish, Pace' is mine, listing my priorities as im running reminds me what its all about (for me). Thanks for always brining us into you brain
I read somewhere that addressing yourself as "you" can be more effective than "I", so I often do "you've got this" or "well done you" after an effort. It feels cheesy but it works!
"Looking good - feeling great!!!" I've been saying that for well over 20 years!! And when the going gets tough, I remind myself that I have 3 college aged daughters who are watching me push myself day after day. And though they don't think about me and my running, they certainly will when they have kids of their own, responsibilities and their body is screaming at them. That's when it will hopefully remind them to never give up.
PB nailing the tips. Rarely have I delivered the ‘result’ after turning up to a race or a session when my mind is not in the room! Flip that and rock up knowing that you’re not as fit as you want to be probably going to get your ass handed to you , yet, but mentally happy that success through failure is part of the process. 9.9/10 in my experience a clear winner of mind over matter!
I broke my leg in January and it was the first time I had to take a few months off of running that weren't by choice. I found myself missing it in a way I never had before and I was itching to do anything to move my body, even if it completely sucked and hurt and didn't go as planned. Since coming back, I have found it easier to push through hard moments by reminding myself that there was a brief period where it wasn't possible and that I dreamed of the ability for a tough session to be the hardest part of my day. So reminding myself "I'm grateful to get to move like this" has been my biggest motivator and has driven me through long runs and fast paces. (love the grind)
Such a great way to use that time to motivate you! I had a running friend who had a foot operation some years back and they’d message me when I had to run super early before work at the weekend because they knew I’d be tempted to stay in bed, similar sentiment, they’d say “don’t you dare think about not running this morning when you know how much I’d love to but can’t”
My mental strength is what got me through my first NYC Marathon yesterday.
"When the going gets tough, the tough(er) gets going" - I say this to myself towards the end of a run to motivate myself. It really helps me push myself and finish strong.
"You're all good, let's go, let's keep pushing" is my go to.
My mantra over the past year has been “Be precise, be confident, be strong.”
And the other one sort of I stole from Scott Jurek
“This is what you do, this is who you are, this is what you were made to do.”
😊
Thanks Philly for the motivation!
Whilst training for my first marathon, on one long run (the longest run ever up until this point) it felt like I couldn’t stop. This wan’t because I was zooming or feeling great but because my legs had been doing the same motion for such a long time it physically felt like that’s all they could do. Out of this was born my mantra of “can’t stop”. Whilst it seems negative and almost punishing, I frame it in a positive light much in same way as saying “I can’t stop dancing”.
"Moms don't quit" is one of my mantras. Works for all kinds of things in life, too.
Thanks for the great video. Made my morning ❤
Love the content Philly. My race mantra is inspired by another vlogger I follow “we don’t quit” but for training “love the grind” 🙌🏻
Phily, you are so cute. I have heard and read all this before but you present it in a very personal and humorous way thus making it enjoyable to hear it all again. Bravo. Anyway, if you are wondering, my "why" is easy - I have Parkinson's disease and running marathons has stopped its progression. My mantra follows on from this: It's all part of the adventure, be audacious.
“It hurts more to lose” is my mantra at the moment 🙌
And long live Kristian Blummenfelt 😎
"I can do hard things!" That has been my mantra through undergrad, grad school, and all my training and half marathon in october. As i approched mile 8 in my half, someone was holding up a poster that said "You Can Do Hard Things!!" and i was soooo happy to see that at that point in the race. Now i have a 20k trail race and a 30k trail race coming up this winter and i know that mantra will get me through them
Hi Phily, as always i really enjoying your videos. I cant seem to see the calculator for training times regards the 80/20 . I could be my eyes they are older lol . Looking forward to your next educational tips. xx
I didnt see it either
My Coach told me "A marathon is not over until you decide that it's over"
truly something that changed also how I see my daily life with its challenges!
This video came at the perfect time, because I have my first half marathon in about 1 1/2 hours. I am aiming for a sub 1:40. Let’s go!
Go for it! Let us know how you go 💪🏼
@@PhilyBowdenIt went extremely good, I finished with a time of 1:37:56. I am very happy!
@@simonvanbostelen4105kickin ass, nice work!
Mantras: “suck it up buttercup”, “I’m looking good, feeling good, gotta be in hollywood 😂”
“Play time is over. You’ve messed around long enough.” Not exactly the most uplifting, but it somehow works for me. 😅 Keep on loving the grind!!!
Mine is vilja våga vinna (Swedish) - the will to dare and win, basically. If I’m willing to believe in myself, every session will be a win. And of course - dig deep. Dig f*****g deep when it’s really hard. 😁
Thanks for such an inspiring channel Phily. You are yourself in every video and I love it ☺️
You always put a smile on my face .Your a natural in front of the camera
Good luck in following your Olympic dream
So make sure you nail on the 14th
Happy New year to a very happy couple
And good luck in your running journey Daniel
Great video 👏🏼 I think I might have got this one from you (so, thanks): ‘I’m fit, I’m fast, I’m strong’ really works for me. And, less of a mantra, but ‘Stay tall, drive the arms’ helps me focus on my form/stay in the present 😊
My mantra is that 'your body is stronger than your mind thinks' - I always use this in the last tough miles of a run
Phily, you helped my form during the Chicago marathon - watching you run so beautifully gave me inspiration - I might have been slow, but I looked upright and tall even when it was tough!! - Thank you for your great content!
My mantra is "Endure the pain, enjoy the result." It is useful for interval training 😆
I feel this one!
‘One foot in front of the other’. This one always helps me in the difficult spots. Takes my mind off how far is left.
One of my favourite mantras comes from a quote from the bad guy in Enter the Dragon when he says “ We are unique in that we forge our bodies in the fire of our will” I try to quote that back to myself when I’m really suffering .
Awesome tips Phily, especially the why! But I also agree with the consistency one around kit (get rid of those blisters!)
This girl is an inspiration ❤
I agree with every point except the fueling. Despite being an endurance athlete, I am fat adapted from eating a low carb ketogenic diet. Most of my calories come from fat and protein so I eat 1-2 meals a day and do no fuel before workouts. I rely only on fat as my energy source to get through the most intense threshold workouts.
I'm running Houston too! Great tips
I've recently stumbled on your channel a few days ago. I like your humor and knowledge. Just subscribed ☑️
A mantra or just a thought I keep inside my mind is "I am working hard today for the privilege to work hard in the future"
It connects to the: why run and train hard is to be able to run good today and for the next 60 years
Loved this video, Phily. The tips on mindset and mantras really struck home, and I will dig back into my mental game to help keep me on track.
You have such a great way of explaining things. Love the grind! :)
my mantra is 'running is my super power'. helps me laugh at myself and finish with a smile.
In my HM PB recently I found myself repeating “hurt worth it” - short for “make the hurt worth it” because more than three words at that pace is too much. For me it means that I’ve already put in hard work and sacrifice, so to continue the hurt in the moment is to honour what I put past me through.
”shape the f**k up, it doesnt even hurt that bad” is my mantra :)
This is a really REALLY good and succinct set of points. It's not just for elite runners - I ran 39 marathons and was VERY proud of my sub 4 PB and I was saying, ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ as the video went on.
My mantra was based on something Ron Hill said in his warts-and-all autobiography... "hang on as long as you can, and keep your mouth shut" 😎
Great tips! Thanks! My mantra is "I'm not tired, it just hurts!". A bit of pain never hurt anyone!
Thank you for your advice Phily (enjoy the marathon!). Attempted my first one beginning of October (while being injured on Ibuprofen). Even though I was not able to finish my first marathon, I still enjoyed it immensely ( the crowd, the atmosphere). It was AWESOME! Thank you for pointing me to the most important thing. Enjoying it! 🙏🙏🙏
Great tips Phily, thanks! Invaluable insight from someone who's done this at elite level.
I love this. I actually started saying myself a mantra when I saw your video about your lost black book.😢
Mine is "I am strong, independant and determined"
Daniels editing is the best. The Major Payne clip after the curtain close? Classic.
Great video, glad I found it!
A mantra that sticked with me is the one from the Ryan Holiday's book "Obstacle is the way!" That is also why I do it, to go beyond what I believe are my limits because the obstacle are the way to get there 🙃
Love all this advice . . . your starting to become a good running coach.
I just got a new injury and it was from trying a new exercise that I was just not use to so now i have an ankle injury. It's already starting to feel better after 4 days but I'm sad that it took so little of a change in my routine to cause it. I think it's just inflammation and stiffness and not a serious injury. It "almost" feels like the achilles tendon but just to the side of that so it might be a Peroneal Tendon.
I go to bed at 8:30 pm and get up at 5am for a workout at 6:30 that takes me 40 minutes to drive to. So I try and go to bed every night to make it a routine lifestyle. I'm a light sleeper so external noises wake me up making it take 8-9 hrs in bed to get 6-7 hrs of sleep.
I'm doing this because I want to run and hike and I'm not worried about the time much but about just being able to run at a moderate pace without stopping. If I could just run a trail 10K and finish . . . I'm a LONG distance backpacker so I have all the mantras down pat. As long as I can stay injury free I'm going to do this . . .
Love yhe videa as always... But Daniel is absolutely knocking it out of the park these last few videos. Perfect clips added in as responses to Phily and have me literally busting out laughing. Keep it up, both of you!
Definitely “you got this.” I also think about my kids.
And during the later parts of a race I try to reframe the “ouch, this sucks, I want to stop” into “you’ve done amazing and worked so far to get here (both earlier today and all the training leading here), you’ve given yourself the opportunity to smash it, let’s f’ing go!!!” Still working on this though 🤣
Going for 330 in Pisa next week so thanks very much for the great tips
I am all about proving to myself that even as i age i can surprise myself. Im not marathon training but focusing on 5k and really have to have a word with myself mid race that the discomfort is short lived.
Showing my teenage son not to underestimate the over 50s!
I come in late here, great video, just discovered your channel 😊 Only one point about your 321 tip before sleep, I would love to be able to do that, but I finish work at 5pm at best, then go home, training session at 6pm (if not 8.30 if I go to my club swim session), and only then can I eat anything. So all I can do is eat like 30' before I go to bed x) Not so good I guess
That moment at 9:48 when UA-camrs promise to link something in the description, but only stuff said description with affiliate links and the promised thing is nowhere to be found 😂
I love the long runs. It’s the middle distance that I find annoying. 😂 I also love running in the rain when it’s relatively warm. It’s the negative Fahrenheit winter windchills that are killer.
Excellent video. I appreciate you sharing your tips, from the elite/professional perspective. The one that gets me through each time is THE WHY. When things get tough, I get 'philosophical' and I'm unstoppable. Maybe not fast, but unstoppable. lol.
Cheers!
Great video. Luckily, I embrace most of the tips shared. I especially love the "why". I ran the '21 Los Angeles marathon in a Tupac jersey and Kobe shorts to honor their memoy. Knowing that, my why, kept me motivated and I achieved a personal best time.
Thank you for motivation 🙏🙏🙏
UR AWESOME TNX A BUNCH FOR THE TIPS
I've started using "I'm strong, I'm in control" which was derived from your "fit, fast and in control" in a previous video 🙂
Great timing Phily - got drenched today - really enjoyed it though cos I had the route to myself and it was peaceful ( driving rain aside! ) - taking myself into a new level of commitment is really quite a powerful thing 😊 Off topic but I bet your outtakes are funny - can Daniel do his magic?
I've used some of these advice for long, but I think I have to beging using them all.
Heavily relied on “I can do hard things” during Chicago this year 😅
Hi Phily!! Thanks a lor for your suuuper tips 😍 i'm training for a Marathon in March,and i used to run my long run at Marathon pace (most of the time,for the entire lenght of the session). What pace do you suggest to take for the long run?? 😊 Slower than my Marathon target pace? Just a bit faster?
My mantra during races is “A moment of pain for a lifetime of glory”. ITS GOT ME THROUGH ROUGHHH MOMENTS
Thank you for the tips
“I am going to fucking crush this run!”
Mantra: "Its ok, I'm ok" Sometimes "Ok? Ok!" When 2 words is all I can string together. 😂
Thanks for sharing this. So for the easy run, will it be in the same distance with long run if we keep adding the mileage to it? What speed do we run long run vs easy run? Thanks 🙏
Will certainly be applying these tips when I’m training for Edinburgh next year. I’ll especially try experimenting more with the fuelling: before my first marathon, I did test out the gels on a few of my long training runs, but with the real thing, I found them becoming a lot less tasty by the third or fourth sachet! It still got me round but there may be a better way to do it.
I’m training for Edinburgh next year too! Good luck :)
@@sima8662 Thanks, you too!
I clicked for the tips, subscribed for the personality 😂. Look forward to more vids 💪
My right foot heel it's troubleshooting pains afterwards and when I wake up in the morning 🙏🙏🙏
Ok. Now I just need to implement these strategies before running the NYC marathon next week 😅
Good luck tomorrow!
Going for a long run now!
Discipline solves almost all problems in life. Driven NOT motivated. Motivation ends January 16th for most. A Marathon is far less than the human limit. Learn to suffer voluntarily so when the involuntary suffering comes along you have some callus to mitigate the situation.
I don’t see a pace calculator you mentioned in the video in the description. 😮
I run fast pace for first 1/2 marathon then legs fall apart on back half… ankles and feet hurt and hamstrings get tight. Fitness with heart and lungs is fine however. Not sure if I need longer runs or more speed work to get legs fixed
I definitely use the 'I get to do this'
How about:
Just do it
Every little helps
Maybe your worth it
I’m loving’ it
Have it your way
Because you’re worth it
Impossible is Nothing
We try harder
The Best a Man Can Get
Idk if it’s a mantra, but I often find myself singing “just keep running” Dory-style in my head (also works for cycling up hills “just keep cycling”)
Haha love this!! 🐟
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Oh no, this is going to be stuck in my head now, and drive me bonkers!
(I must admit, I sometimes hear Forrest Gump's voice when I'm doing stupid-long runs: "I just felt like running")
Thanks 🙏
Phily's marathon pace is like my 5k pace!