Comments on: Visualizing vampires to run faster

By: Kristine Senko

Kristine Senko — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:12:49 +0000

Wow, i’m not the only one? i still run with DJ Beatsmith podcasts and think of Alias or Dark Angel. The music really pushes me when i need it the most, too.

By: nolafwug

nolafwug — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:22:03 +0000

I love running most of the time. But I’m lucky to live where it’s never too cold to run outdoors. I think a treadmill would be dreadfully dull in comparison. Never tried one.

I let my mind wander and I do great problem-solving while I run. Sometimes I do great meditation.

But I have 2 kids so perhaps other people have lots more moments in which they can think clearly and don’t need set-aside “me time” like running is for me.

That said, I do have a number of theme songs and superhero scenarios I’ll visualize myself in. The top one is that chick from Heavy Metal who rides around on that cool flying beast. Followed closely by zombie-slaying Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil series.

Um, running is obscene amounts of fun for me. I am not a liar. :)

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:00:38 +0000

I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My license plate even has LUV BUFF on it. But I still hate running, even if I get to pretend to be Buffy. Sigh.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:44:50 +0000

I like running to The Matrix soundtrack and pretending agents are chasing me.

By: CLD

CLD — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:51:43 +0000

Running on the trails each day, I imagine I’m running from thunderstorms. Of course, there have been days when I actually *did* run from a thunderstorm. It’s quite invigorating in a running-for-your-life way.

I’m running my first half marathon in January. I so glad I found your blog; been reading back to your first half marathon. It makes me feel a lot better about it.

By: Misty

Misty — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:18:47 +0000

One of my major motivators for any of my exercise is how well it will enable me to perform like a heroine :-D Running from zombies, werewolves…being able to pull myself up after being thrown over the side of the railing by a bad guy…being able to scale a rope up the side of the castle….

By: Jenna Z

Jenna Z — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:25:45 +0000

I have done most of my running outdoors since I just started in June. I like to pretend that a rapist is tailing me and that I need to run faster to shake him of my trail. Sometimes when I’m running, I tell myself if I stop before that stop sign or that light pole, my dog won’t be there when I get home, someone will have broken in and stolen him. It’s like some stupid childhood superstition that for some reason still manages to keep me motivated. But for the month of October, I will adopt the Vampire visualization! It’s so Halloweeny!

And when I am holding plank position for however long my instructor demands, I pretend there is a kitten sleeping under my stomach and that if I even sway my back a tiny bit, he’ll be crushed by my gut and die a bloody, terrible death.

By: sian-girlgetstrong

sian-girlgetstrong — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:06:20 +0000

the mind is such a powerful thing…its certainly beats all the negative input!! I will try this today and perhaps post about it in the future! love your site!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:51:38 +0000

Awesome idea! You go girl!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:28:30 +0000

oh man! I totally do the imagination thing! It’s nice to find someone else, I always thought I was the only one becasue it’s kind of weird. I do the Buffy one, or sometimes a really cool ninja, just about anything that explains why I’m exerting myself but is more fun then actually running