165: How To Reframe Negative Thoughts and Achieve Your Goals
The Running Channel Podcast
The Running Channel
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Disclaimer: This episode includes discussions around mental health which some listeners may find distressing.
Andy and Sarah are joined by sports psychiatrist Dr. Amit Mistry, who works closely with ASICS in their caregiver programme, supporting elite athletes facing both physical and mental health challenges.
They discuss the struggles Andy experienced as a professional athlete and how programmes like ASICS’ now provide much better support for athletes. Sarah also shares her fears and mental hurdles ahead of the Rotterdam Marathon, where she’ll be aiming for a personal best, and explores how listeners can apply practical techniques and coping strategies in their own lives.
The Running Channel Podcast tackles one big topic each episode, amongst helpful tips and light-hearted chat on the latest news in the running world. Hosted by Sarah Hartley (amateur runner) and Andy Baddeley (former pro runner) alongside Rick Kelsey (recovering runner), the TRC Podcast is friendly, jargon-free, and the perfect accompaniment to your runs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Rang Channel podcast with me, Andy Badley. |
| 0:07.3 | Me, Sarah Hartley. |
| 0:08.3 | And me, Rick Kelsey. |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, but I'm not sticking around for this one. |
| 0:11.5 | Woohoo! |
| 0:12.5 | Steady on, sorry. |
| 0:13.5 | It's really harsh. |
| 0:14.5 | You two are going to be meeting sports psychiatrist Dr. Amit Mystery, who's been working with |
| 0:20.7 | ASICS to help athletes within their caregiver |
| 0:24.0 | program for when they really might need it. Yeah, just a disclaimer, this episode is going to be |
| 0:28.2 | covering mental health and mental illness, but we do believe it's so important to talk about, |
| 0:32.7 | especially with the rise of social media. It's being talked about a lot in running, and so we hope |
| 0:37.4 | this is a really insightful and helpful conversation. Yeah, and things have changed a lot since my professional career. That's the advent of social media, lots of different things like that. But we always need to keep learning and keep having the conversation, which is what we're all about on the online channel podcast. Don't put yourself down, mate. It wasn't that long ago. Honestly, 2017. It was like yesterday. |
| 0:55.5 | Slash 10 years ago. And I'm running Rothstand marathon. |
| 0:59.0 | Because Radhaam is anywhere, anywhere. The day after this episode comes out, I'll be running the marathon. |
| 1:05.4 | So I... It's not Liverpool or Rome. No. Back to me. I've got lots of questions. We've also |
| 1:10.1 | got some news and some questions for Dr. Amit to answer too. So let's get into it. |
| 1:20.3 | Just threw away the news there. Just threw it away. I've also got some news. Pee. Yeah, but back to me. But before we talk about me, how are you? |
| 1:28.3 | How was London Marathon training going? |
| 1:29.3 | You did your longest run. No, I'm probably talking about you. No, I'm probably talking about you because we did something together, didn't we? Andy's been away on holiday and Sarah... Yet again. Yeah, God, he's costing on holiday. It's all right being a CEO, isn't it? Thousands of children. |
| 1:43.3 | First holiday since Christmas, but okay. |
| 1:45.3 | Oh yeah, Christmas was ages ago, isn't it? With his thousands of children. First holiday since Christmas, but okay. |
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