I’ve lost my Running Mojo. Have you seen it anywhere? I know I had it at the last half-marathon but I haven’t seen it since.
Maybe I left it on the roof of the car and it fell off on the drive home.
Or maybe I actually lost it somewhere in the last few kilometres of the race and it is hanging from a branch of a tree where someone picked it up and hung it in case its owner came back to find it.
I’ve looked everywhere at home. I thought I’d found it when I came across my Run Forrest t-shirt in aΒ drawer a few weeks ago but it was just a trick of the light.
It has been very cold lately. Perhaps it slunk off when I wasn’t looking and is hibernating somewhere.
Sigh.
It’s a mystery.
It might be out looking for my Physical Activity Mojo, lost at seventeen and tragically never seen again.
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Mine keeps disappearing. I don’t think it actually wants to live with me.
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Never mind, it was good while it lasted. Sometimes these things return, and sometimes not. Perhaps it will return in Spring, when everything is bursting into life?
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I think that’s quite possible, Barbara. Winter is not my favourite exercise season.
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Hmmm, I think your running mojo is right in front of your face, shaked up with your running shoes. The cold disguises them, but if you look closely enough, you will spot them. Right along beside attitude & motivation!
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Ah. So the fact that I have been avoiding eye contact with my running shoes may have something to do with it?
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Problem solved!
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You have the winter exercise doldrums. It happens to the best of us. I have to force myself to go to the gym in January and February because I would prefer to go home, lay on the couch with a blankie and eat cookies. Not to worry, you’ll get your mojo back soon when the weather starts to warm up. So, this is just a hint for you: In two years, go visit a nice, warm place in August that has cool bike trails.
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I’m not a fan of exercise indoors which is a problem come winter (even though winter here is pretty weak in comparison to yours – it’s all relative). But my Squirrel Radar has just turned up exercise classes at the local trampoline centre. This I think I could cope with and would help me maintain fitness in the meantime.
Thank you for your hint. I am taking note. [scrawls hastily in diary]
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Trampoline? I want to go! It sounds like a jumping good time! I know what you mean about indoor exercise. In January and February, the New Year’s resolution people show up and it gets too crowded. In the summer, I prefer to be outside, enjoying the warmth. In the end, though, I do need to go for upper body strength because I don’t get that on a bike π
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I wish I could help you more, but I can tell you for sure it is not here. How do I know this? I have a sign on my door that says no solicitations or running mojo allowed!
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So it could be feeling rejected and is now hiding out in a bar drowning its sorrows. I’ll keep an eye out. I may need to visit quite a few bars.
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I had a Running Mojo once. Then one day I looked back and realized no one was chasing us. So I let it go and continued just walking to the beat of my own drum.
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Well, that sounds nice. I think I’m still being chased. I keep looking over my shoulder.
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Oh H, you make me laugh. I know, it is not supposed to be funny, but I just picture you looking all sad-eyed and searching for your Running Mojo under the bed along with the dust balls, behind the cupboard door flattened by the ironing board, or in the chest of drawers hiding among the lost keys and discarded coins. I’m sure it’ll come and and say “Boo” as son as that weather warms up again π
As for me I have never had a Running Mojo to lose, in fact I’m not sure I have ever had a mojo at all…
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I’m glad you laughed. I thought it was funny myself. π Well, maybe not so much when I did actually drag my ever-widening backside out onto the track yesterday and…well, it wasn’t pretty… I miss my mojo… π¦
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Aw, you should have popped over to London for the bike race yesterday. We could have had cake. Afterwards of course.
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Oh that I lived a life that would allow me to “pop over to London”….
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Sigh… I know. Sadly I had to let my private jet go, otherwise…
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It’s a pity I’m not the Speaker of Parliament. I could just take a helicopter and charge the taxpayer.
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Now THAT sounds like a good idea. Oh, hang on a minute, I AM a taxpayer
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I’m not at all surprised it’s gone into hibernation considering the cold weather we’ve been having. Just wait a few weeks and it might pop up when you least expect it.
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There was a beautiful sunny day last Friday and I did hear a quiet whisper in my ear. I couldn’t understand it so nothing happened but I live in hope that the warmth will bring my mojo closer so I can hear it.
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Personally, H me love, I reckon it went for a run; and while it was out there achieving overly much, it found itself lost. (Is that an amusing grammatical construction ?)
I wouldn’t worry, were I you (how happy you may be that such ain’t the case !): it’s bound to find its way back home … it’s just taking the long way.
XO
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And in the meantime, I am backsliding rapidly to where I started. Sigh, (But I loved your grammatical construction.) π
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I suspect your mojo and mine are out partying somewhere and we weren’t invited π¦
It’s taken me a while, but I’ve discovered that my passion for running seems to pop up only every other year. Don’t know where it goes in the interim. I haven’t run a single kilometre since my last Half in November. I suspect the *bug* to start running will pop up again in the fall when the weather changes again π
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Well that’s just rude, that is. Why weren’t we invited??
Now I don’t feel so bad for only running once in almost two months since the half marathon. Well, twice now after getting back out there yesterday after all. But don’t you think it’s so unfair that what takes 6 months to build up takes a mere few weeks to completely undo? I only ran 5km and it felt like 15. π¦
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It is very unfair. The expression “use it or lose it” aptly applies to running π¦
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It hasn’t just been cold. It has been freezing. Chill to the bone π¦ Maybe your running mojo has run off to a warmer place, maybe it will be back before you know it. Running or doing exercise indoors isn’t the same, but it is always an option.
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I know, right?!? Every time I just thought about pulling on the running pants, my heart froze. Along with my feet. I think I’d rather run in the heat than the cold.
I’m looking into an exercise class at a trampoline centre as a replacement in the meantime. Sounds like too much fun! π
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Perhaps the pants are the problem. Try running without.
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I shall think on that…..
I am thinking it may not solve my trying to avoid frozen nether regions problem…
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I’m sure it will eventually find you, you can never lose it completely!
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Oh, I do hope so, Elaine! π
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It will, if you had it before, it will definitely return x
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Sorry it took me so long to reply…..I read this yesterday and didn’t have a clever reply to make. As you saw from my own recent posts, I’ve been out looking everywhere for my own muse! I will now redouble my efforts to include searching for yours. I’m almost sure they must be together…..little sods……
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Probably out partying with Joanne’s as well. Rotten little blighters….
Thanks for keeping an eye out. I’ll do the same for yours. π
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Oh, thank you!
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Without my reading glasses, I thought you’d lost your running mop. I was thoroughly confused. A lucky mop, for running? Very odd, that. Considering the source, however, not impossible.
Upon re-reading, I better understand, and see that this is merely a temporary and seasonal change-of-trades.
You will have SO much fun on that trampoline, MoSY!! (But please leave your mop at home. Jumping with a mop would be hazardous.)
–O. Babe
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But do you think they’d let me take my broom? [evil cackle]
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It will come home when you are ready for it.
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Given my honest feelings about running, I may have kissed that mojo goodbye.
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Then that’s fine too. There’s not time for every challenge. I have recently given up dancing Lindy Hop (which I love), because there was no way to do it without a 20 mile round trip late at night and my own reluctance to join in the social dancing that preceded the classes (because these lovely people were all younger than me).
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I think we need an amber alert (beer/champagne) for all our missing mojos π Something about this year that has seen an increase in these mysteries. My writing mojo has been hiding for months (or perhaps cocooning into moths?) as well. But I am going to go out on a limb here without pulling your leg, and suggest to try running barefoot. I know it’s winter there, but if you could find a gym where you could do this I think you would find it liberating. I used to love running barefoot in the gym when training as a gymnast. I felt I could run all day. Hated shoes. Have you heard of the Tarahumara tribe and/or the book ‘Born to Run’? It is a fascinating work regarding natural running and it might give you something to try and thus it might rekindle your mojo. Unfortunately writing barefoot hasn’t done it for me, I’ll have to try something else to lure my mojo back π¦
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I think mine has reached red alert (wine) status.
I looked into barefoot running a few years ago when I was having trouble with my knee and my research found evidence of barefoot running curing such ills. I’m a bit wussy, though, so I’m not sure I could do it outdoors. I asked about low profile shoes as an inbetween solution but it wasn’t recommended as I pronate pretty badly. But I’m always willing to give something new a try. I’ll put it back on the agenda. What’s your opinion of ‘monkey feet’ shoes?
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I have not tried them and don’t know anyone who has. They look like a good option since running barefoot in an open environment is not a safe endeavour. I remember trying those trendy socks with toes and didn’t like them (inside shoes so that may be why), but you never know, whatever works.
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Perhaps my running mojo and yours are hanging out somewhere drinking Pina Coladas. Mine hasn’t been seen for quite some time either.
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I can’t tell you how relieved I am to discover that multi-race-finishing, marathon-running types like you and Joanne have times of not feeling like running. It seemed to me that every time I read about some woman who was never a runner and then achieved some running feat (eg recent Aussie who won a 200-odd km race across some American desert recently), they always talked about how much they now love running and can’t imagine it not being a part of their life. I was beginning to think there was something terribly wrong with me.
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I don’t know if you were following me when I wrote the post ‘Running a Marathon Gave Me Couch Potato Disease’. It speaks to exactly this issue. I think those who fall madly in love with the sport are more the unusual than the norm. π
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Before my time so I went back and read it. I don’t know whether to be happy or depressed that you got over it and ran a half marathon not long after. I see no such light in the tunnel. Sigh.
Have to find that mojo, though. Getting a tad urgent having just received information that I need to be doing 30 minutes of aerobic activity three times a week for three months to prepare myself for the next adventure which is less than three months away. [spoilers]
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What adventure?! Do tell please and thank you. Yes I did another half marathon but since then a 10k and now it is couch potato disease when it comes down to running.
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You’ll have to wait. π
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All right be that way.
On another note we have booked flights to Australia and are planning to be in Melbourne and doing the Great Ocean Road around the first week of March 2016. So hoping we can connect!
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Hooray! i still expect to be relief teaching next year so I have flexibility. Just tell me where and when and I’ll be there with bells on. Literally. So you’ll know it’s me. π
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Oh I will very much look forward to that. As soon as we firm up dates I will let you know. I have been in touch with M-R as we arrive in Sydney. π
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I’m in love with Sherlock Beetroot! π And sometimes aren’t the conversations in the comments as much fun as the post? (no reflection on your delightful post, of course π )
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Sherlock Beetroot (love that!) was a lot of fun to draw. π
The comments are my favourite part of blogging. π
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