139 Poignant, Powerful, and Positive Life Lessons from a 50 Mile Ultra
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As we finish 2020 and gear up emotionally for bigger and better times in 2021, we’ve got a chance to RESET, to lay the groundwork of mindset, habits, and action that will equip us to thrive next year - no matter what is thrown our way.
Matt put this mantra to action at a recent 50 Mile Ultra race and shares the poignant, painful, and powerful life lessons he learned running for over 12 hours in the mountains of central Oregon.
This very simple event acted as a lightening rod and helped with so many other positive habits around flexibility, patience, accountability, and community.
He leaned into the power of sport and it provided much-needed purpose to enable excellence across all aspects of life.
This is the heart of the Performance Reset 2020 - experts and companies sharing their thoughts on the role of sport because, make no mistake, sport is powerful. You might be feeling rudderless. You might be tired of this carnival and the uncertainty. But, we have no doubt you have a performance-driven mindset. You may or may not identify as an athlete, but you can learn and thrive by applying elements of the athletic mindset.
It won’t happen by accident and we want to help.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.4 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.1 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host, Mac Dixon. |
| 0:25.0 | And today, I'm going to take you minute by long minute through a race report of an event |
| 0:33.6 | I did last week. |
| 0:35.3 | The true epitome of all of our nightmares, a 10-page cathartic report |
| 0:40.9 | that is really only important to one person, and that's me. But due to loyalty, you're going to have to |
| 0:48.7 | sit, grit your teeth and bear it. Well, not quite. I'm not going to do that. But I am going to tell you about |
| 0:58.8 | my journey to the completion of a 50-mile running race. But in doing so, I promise not to bore, |
| 1:04.7 | not to drag you through my various emotions that I endured throughout the day. Instead, |
| 1:09.1 | my mission is to share a story that is full of lessons for all of us. |
| 1:12.6 | And as we reset and get ready to charge into 2021 on a mission of performance, |
| 1:18.6 | I think it might just be helpful. |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, I think, or perhaps hope, that you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:25.6 | I believe it's full of lessons. |
| 1:29.0 | And yes, today is very much my favorite subject, |
| 1:34.8 | because it's all about me. |
| 1:38.2 | And so we can all be happy, can't we? |
| 1:41.2 | But before we talk about me, let's do the Squaddy update. And it's a simple one, |
| 1:48.2 | performance reset. You see, Purple Patch Athletes have spent the last months being thrown around, |
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