Are you struggling to feel confident in your running? Or maybe you’ve lost touch with why you started in the first place?

In this episode, Coach G guides you through a powerful mindset exercise to reconnect with your running self and step into the runner you’re becoming.

We’ll explore:

• How to honour the runner you’ve been - reflecting on past races, training, and the mental, physical, and emotional challenges you’ve overcome.
• How to define the runner you want to be, so every run feels intentional, confident, and aligned with your goals.
• The transformative power of “I am…” statements to rewire your mindset, reinforce your identity, and move with purpose.
• Simple exercises and journal prompts to connect past, present, and future runner selves.

Whether you’re a beginner, a returning runner, or a seasoned athlete, this episode helps you shift from chasing pace or medals to cultivating presence, resilience, and joy in every step.

Subscribe and listen weekly for mindset strategies, confidence boosts, and practical tools to help you run stronger, smarter, and more intentionally.

Links:

- Break through what’s holding you back and unlock your next level with 1:1 Coaching

- Re-write your running story with The Runner Identity Project

- Curious about what coaching could do for you? Jump on a consultation call with Coach G

- If you like to listen to music on your run, grab your new fav running playlist here

- If you are guessing what to eat before, during & after your run then look no further - grab this 3-part running fuel series.

- Learn to run online with the support of the Zero to 5K Run Club

- Join 31x31: Your 31-Day Movement Accountability Challenge

Let's stay in touch:

Follow @gmacspurrcoaching on Instagram

Join the Your Running Coach by GMacSpurr community and keep the conversation going

www.gmacspurr.com

Have you ever been out on a run feeling strong, steady, and totally in control…until you looked at your watch, and suddenly everything fell apart?

In this episode, Coach G is unpacking why you can’t hold a pace that physically feels fine, and how your watch - pace, heart rate, and all those numbers - might be quietly sabotaging your confidence and performance. If you’ve ever thought “I was feeling totally fine until I looked at my watch”, this conversation will hit home.

You’ll hear a real coaching story from a runner who felt fit, capable, and experienced - yet consistently backed off the moment the data appeared. We’ll explore why this isn’t a fitness issue, but a mindset and perception-of-effort problem, and how outsourcing trust to your watch can trigger tension, panic, and self-doubt mid-run - even when your body is more than capable.

In this episode, we’ll talk about:

• Why you struggle to hold pace even when running feels comfortable
• How pace and heart rate data can hijack confidence and decision-making
• The difference between capacity and perceived effort
• Simple mindset shifts to stop your watch dictating your run
• How to rebuild trust in your body and enjoy stronger, more confident pacing

This isn’t about ditching data - it’s about changing your relationship with it. Because the strongest runners don’t need permission from a device. They lead from embodied trust and integrate the numbers after the run, not during it.

If this episode makes you realise “wow… this isn’t about my legs at all”, then you’ll love the deeper identity and mindset work inside The Runner Identity Project, where we help runners rebuild confidence, trust their effort, and stop self-sabotaging when it matters most.

Links:

- Break through what’s holding you back and unlock your next level with 1:1 Coaching

- Re-write your running story with The Runner Identity Project

- Curious about what coaching could do for you? Jump on a consultation call with Coach G

- If you like to listen to music on your run, grab your new fav running playlist here

- If you are guessing what to eat before, during & after your run then look no further - grab this 3-part running fuel series.

- Learn to run online with the support of the Zero to 5K Run Club

- Join 31x31: Your 31-Day Movement Accountability Challenge

Let's stay in touch:

Follow @gmacspurrcoaching on Instagram

Join the Your Running Coach by GMacSpurr community and keep the conversation going

www.gmacspurr.com

Feeling tense, stuck in your head, or disconnected from running? This guided runner visualisation is designed to help you slow down, reset your nervous system, and reconnect with calm confidence and trust in yourself as a runner.

In this episode, running mindset coach Gillian (Coach G) leads you through a gentle visualisation to quiet overthinking, release pressure, and return to running without pace, performance, or comparison. There’s no teaching, no advice, and nothing to “get right” - just space to breathe, move, and remember that you already belong as a runner.

This episode is perfect to listen to:

• Before a run when your mind feels loud
• During an easy run (with safety in mind)
• After a tough training session or stressful day
• When confidence feels shaky and you want to reconnect with trust

You’ll be guided to:

• Let go of performance pressure and self-judgement
• Reconnect with your body’s natural rhythm
• Build calm, grounded confidence (not hype or force)
• Strengthen trust in yourself as a runner

Whether you’re returning to running, navigating a mental block, or simply craving a calmer relationship with the sport, this visualisation will help you run your own way - with steadiness, presence, and self-trust.

Save this episode and return to it anytime you need grounding, reassurance, or a reminder that you don’t need to earn your runner identity.

Links:

- Break through what’s holding you back and unlock your next level with 1:1 Coaching

- Re-write your running story with The Runner Identity Project

- Curious about what coaching could do for you? Jump on a consultation call with Coach G

- If you like to listen to music on your run, grab your new fav running playlist here

- If you are guessing what to eat before, during & after your run then look no further - grab this 3-part running fuel series.

- Learn to run online with the support of the Zero to 5K Run Club

- Join 31x31: Your 31-Day Movement Accountability Challenge

Let's stay in touch:

Follow @gmacspurrcoaching on Instagram

Join the Your Running Coach by GMacSpurr community and keep the conversation going

www.gmacspurr.com