Your Brain on Long-Distance Running
The running habits that transform you into an athlete.
You’re different from most people.
Yes, you. I know exactly the type of person you are.
When your colleagues ask you about your weekend plans, your answer is “Oh, just ten miles this Sunday.”
When you look at distances on a map, you think about how it’d take you 23 minutes and 47 seconds to run that. It’s only 3 miles.
And when life seems stressful, when everything becomes almost too much, you just want to get out there and run.
We runners are a different breed, you and me. As it turns out, the brains of runners are actually different from most other people.
The habits our brains adopt can make us into better runners and, ultimately, endurance athletes.
This is your brain on long-distance running.
The ties between mental resilience and long-distance running
A recent study in the Australian Journal of Psychology looked at the link between running and mental resilience.
Twenty ultra-marathon runners were matched with twenty non-runners of the same gender and age range. Participants completed…
