Hello. I hope you don't mind me joining your thread Stagger, but I'm really struggling too.

Running has long been a great source of help, both the practice of running and the friends I've made through running. I love running in the hills.

But what about when running adds to my sense of failure - when I'm not fast enough to run with my friends or be part of teams, when my determination, self-discipline and training are no longer enough to get me out? What do I do then?

Give up running? Might just as well give up living. So I must keep on running then. But sometimes I just don't have the heart to run and even if I'm out in the hills I just want to stop and curl up by the path.