{"id":1372,"date":"2016-01-01T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2016-01-01T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:40:35","slug":"an-important-learning-from-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/2016\/01\/an-important-learning-from-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"An Important learning from 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negativity slows you down like nothing else. We expend So much energy just battling\u00a0 those creeps in our head. That&#8217;s what weighs us down. And the thing about these wily creatures, is that they know our moments of weakness and will use those to strike us down with full force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This enlightenment came two days ago, when after my tempo run I had short 1 minutes all out bursts. 8 of them. all sorts of doubts played in my head during my tempos, but in my sprints I just flew. Simply flew. There was no thought. Only a burn in my heart and my legs. I was in the moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>I need to cut the strings to fly. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Throw the baggage that weighs me down. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Empty my mind and allow it to be filled with light.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Only when the mind is a vacuum will\u00a0Positivity enter and fill the space. It needs to flow throw our body, like the blood in our veins. Pulsating. Because when the legs and mind have given up- it is the heart, that will pump this blood and take you through in the slog miles.<br \/>\nConvert the failures into lessons and successes into strengths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Construct that armour plated mind.<\/p>\n<p>Build the bank of memories \u00a0which will carry you through\u2026the Race and the year! Happy 2016!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1373 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"723\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled.png 920w, https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Untitled-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negativity slows you down like nothing else. We expend So much energy just battling\u00a0 those creeps in our head. That&#8217;s what weighs us&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-running-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lWKK-m8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}