Runner lost my mojo

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I used to love running, I was never fast but it gave me such a buzz. I did a very slow marathon last year and since then I’ve just lost my love for it. I’ve started caring too much about how fast everyone else is and now haven’t run for months. I was supposed to be doing the same marathon next month but haven’t trained for it so there’s no way that can happen.

I hate the thought of never running again but at the moment equally I hate the thought of running and it actually gives me anxiety.

Any tips to get my mojo back or should I just leave it and see if it comes back on its own?

OP - I think you need to remember that you have completed a marathon! Less than 1% of the world’s population will ever do that, you should be incredibly proud of yourself! It is irrelevant how long it took, just the fact you finished it, let alone with all you had to cope with during it, is something to really feel good about.

How fucking nasty. You should be ashamed of yourself.

This is one of the problems with running OP, it can attract arseholes.

I’ve been involved in running for about 12 years and almost everyone I know has lost their mojo at some point and feels worried at the thought of going out again.

Faster people don’t realise how depressing it is when everyone around you is focused in pace, yours isn’t fast, and it’s not going to get fast. Someone at my running club put a “helpful” suggestion on the facebook group - if you feel slow, look at your pace in comparison to your age group, as in her words “it’s probably quite fast”… No dear, thats just you, I’m slow for my age too 😆

The fact that you did a marathon is amazing and clearly you have a great deal of endurance. The fastest lady at my running club never runs further than 10km. I hope some of the thread suggestions work for you - trail running, canicross etc. what about parkrun tourism? Plenty of parkruns are trail, and inclusive, and focusing on going different places is far more fun than looking at paces. You can even do parkrun without your barcode so nobody knows your time.

Good luck finding your mojo again. Don’t let the pacewankers put you off！