I think the only person who thinks you a disaster is yourself. What impresses me the most with you, is that it hasn’t happened yet at Hastings parkrun, but you dust yourself off and come back fighting the next week in training. That’s a quality that not many have. I’ve had lots of runners quit because they haven’t hit their target times and they then up fading away. But me and you know how well you are running, we see it every week in the sessions. Shit happens. Today wasn’t your day. No biggie. And we know it’s the head that is playing up. There’s a simple mindset switch that will make a big difference to you, and that’s treating parkrun as 5 x 1km rather than a 5k race. I’m not saying stop after each rep, but mentally reset after each km. Once you do that and start to appreciate what each km feels like, you will get more used to that horrible feeling late on. And don’t be in hurry to get there. It’s going to happen, and the time it most likely will is when you take away that pressure off yourself. Another strong week completed so congrats on that!!

Coach Simon 🍊