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I've been trying to practice something similar in my long distance runs.
Nothing is as defeating as being overcome by pain and frustration.
I've found FOCUS is key to everything else - form, speed, injury prevention, etc.
It's easy to get caught up in finding distractions to make the run less wearisome but as I've learnt, that's counter productive. It diminishes my ability to find inner strength. It shrinks my capacity for accommodating stress, tension and frustration.
Focus and awareness on the other hand enlarges this inner space and strength and allows me to have a much greater capacity for stress/tension/frustration.
Without it, the entire run is reduced to a battle of will vs pain. And there's only so much will you can muster before it gets exhausted.
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