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By: Georgia Maxwell, Gradlife Ambassador

Ever since I started Grad school, I’ve become a big fan of the stress run—or the idea of it at least. So I thought I’d share a livestream of the thoughts I had during my last one. Maybe you’ve had some of the same!

1. I can’t look at my research anymore

And If I do… well I don’t know what will actually happen but it will probably be bad. I don’t even have enough brain cells left to consider what that would be.

2. What I really want to do is binge-watch something for a healthy couple of hours.

But then I’ll have to start a new show and that is a time commitment I just can’t make right now (well I could, but I won’t. Not for another week a least)

3. Ok here’s what I’m going to do: I’ll go on a run

Yes! This is an excellent idea. Ideas like this are what got me into Grad school in the first place.

4. This is an excellent idea

I repeat this over and over to myself as I change into what I define as running clothes but what would probably make real runners laugh. This is an excellent idea. This is an excellent idea. By the time my suspiciously old running shoes have been laced up, I no longer believe it. But it’s too late to change my mind now.

5. This was a horrible idea

It’s 20 seconds into my run. There is a concerning pain in my side. All these runners keep waving at me… Why?

6. Okay it’s getting better just gotta warm up

Nope. No It’s not.

6.5 I’ll do that thing my runner-friend told me to do where I run for a minute and then walk for a minute.

Oh no it’s been a minute of running but someone’s walking by. I guess I have to keep going, at least until they pass me. Gotta keep up appearances.

7. There is literally no way I have only been outside for 4 minutes

In my defense though there was a hill. According to science that is the equivalent of double the time spent running (it’s not, I made that up). Okay what I’m going to do is run around the block one more time and that should round me up to a solid 10 minutes.

8. Whatever.

Six minutes is close enough. Maybe I’ll just watch one episode of something new before I get back to work…

Do my stages match-up with yours? Do you have other tips for dealing with stress? Do you actually know how to run? Let me know in the comments below!