146. Amelia Boone on Battling Your Inner Critic, the Nuances of Confidence, and Improving Self-Talk

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Amelia Boone is a giant in the obstacle course racing world and she's started competing in ultramarathons over the last few years as well. Many of her fans know she has struggled with an eating disorder and spent time in treatment last year. She’s now in recovery, she just moved to Colorado, and she’s been riding her Ellipti-Go on the Front Range’s big climbs over the last few months.

Jason has always looked up to Amelia and admired her work ethic, her talent, and her drive. But also her vulnerability and how she invites us along as she deals with her struggles.

Amelia gave Jason some courage last year to share how losing his grandfather was so incredibly hard and the toll that it took. In this podcast, she gives us a glimpse of how she pushes through challenges and the things that she continues to struggle with.

In this episode as Jason and Amelia discuss:

Reframing criticism
The fine line of "trusting your body"
Self-talk and mantras during a race
The slippery slope of too much confidence

I hope you take away some lessons from this episode because no doubt, there’s a lot to learn from such an admirable human being.

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	Say, go.
0:04.0	This is episode 146 with four-time obstacle racing world champion, ultra-runner,
0:10.0	and a new resident of the great state of Colorado,
0:13.0	Ms. Amelia Boone.
0:14.3	Welcome back to the Strength Running Podcast. I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald and
0:27.2	I'm also the head coach of Strength Running, our community of tens of thousands
0:31.0	of runners all around the world and the goal of this show is to give you new ideas, tools, and strategies for improving your running.
0:40.0	Whether that's running a new distance, hitting a certain finish time, or avoiding your next injury,
0:45.5	I'll be bringing you the leaders in the fitness industry to help you reach more of your big running goals.
0:51.5	From elite runners to performance psychologists, strength experts, coaches,
0:56.8	best-selling authors, and physical therapists who can help make our running dreams become a reality. with more knowledge you'll have more of a
1:05.4	competitive advantage the more you know the better decisions you'll make about your training
1:10.0	if you're new to the show we we have 145 other episodes, a video channel on YouTube, or our
1:16.7	homebase Strength Running.com, where you can see all of our Let me also thank our sponsor, Path Projects, for supporting this podcast and the broader running community by making premium running gear at an affordable price.
1:40.0	I'm constantly wearing my pair of Sykes five inch shorts, but very soon I'll be getting a pair of their new wildcat three inch racing shorts.
1:49.0	If they function as well as the other gear I have from Path, I know I'm going to love them.
1:53.7	You can check out all of their products at path projects.com.
1:58.4	All right, our guest today is none other than Amelia Boone. Amelia is a giant in the obstacle course racing world and
2:05.8	she's dabbled in some ultra marathons over the last few years as well. Many of her fans know
2:10.8	she's struggled with an eating disorder and spent time in treatment last year.
2:14.8	She's now in recovery, she just moved to Colorado, and if you follow her on Instagram, you'll
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