The voices in my head

While I was running this morning, I noticed that the voices in my head seemed to be arguing with each other.  My positive side and negative side were having a constant discussion about my run, how I was feeling and how I was doing... It went something like this:

Negative: Why are we doing this?  I'm tired... let's just go back.

Positive:  We're out here because we signed up the 10K and we need to get the training runs in.

Negative:  Well, that was dumb.  Why did we sign up?  We haven't run a race in a year and haven't run at all since last summer.

Positive:  That's why we out here!  To start running again.

Negative:  Well, I wouldn't call this running... it's more like a slow shuffle.

Positive:  Doesn't matter if we run or walk, as long as we are out here.

Negative: So walking is a option?  Let's do that instead.

Positive:  No, we are doing well enough we don't need to walk yet. 

Negative:  My knee hurts.

Positive:  There's a little ache, no pain, we're fine.

Negative:  We can't breathe.  If we keep this up, we're going to trigger an asthma attack. 

Positive:  No.  We can breathe.  Just keep taking deep breaths.

Negative:  See that lady running?  She's in shape.  She's probably judging us... wondering why that fat woman is running.

Positive:  No, she doesn't care.  See?  She smiled and gave us the runner's nod. 

Negative:  This is so dumb.  We'll never get back in shape to run long distances again.

Positive:  We did it before.  So what if we have to start over?  We're never going to know what we can or can't do unless we try.

Negative:  We're running too slow.  We're going to have our worst pace yet.

Positive:  No, we're fine.  Hear that?  Runkeeper just gave us our stats for the mile, and we're doing great.

Negative:  Then let's walk the rest of the way...

Positive:  No!  We got this.  Less than a half mile to go.

Negative:  Great, and now we'll be sore and achy all day.

Positive:  Nope, we're going to stretch when we get home.  And we'll go for a walk later.

Negative:  No, we won't.  We'll just lay on the couch all day.

Positive:  So what if we do?  At least we will have done our training run for the day.  And look!  We're almost home.  Just another two blocks to go.

Negative:  Really?  So what?  We only went a 1.5 miles.

Positive:  Yes, we ran 1.5 miles, with just a very short walk break.  We couldn't have done that last week.  And see that?  We're done!  And we did it with a faster pace than we did during the week.  We got this!  Now, lets go stretch!