#224: The Mental Side of Running
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and co-host Molly Williams have a major chat with Justin Ross, a Denver-based psychologist who works with runners and triathletes, about the mental side of running (and swimming!). This father of two young children started running less than a decade ago, yet he’s already qualified for Boston Marathon! The trio has an intriguing conversation about how connecting to your future self or to values (rather than goals) can bolster flagging motivation. After Molly shares a particularly candid story about her overwhelming fear of running six miles when she was a newbie runner, the good doctor counsels on how to get over mental hurdles that inevitably arise in training or racing. He talks about the importance of connecting to trust while prepping for a race and well as cultivating the ability to tap into a sense of calm. This thought-provoking dialog concludes with examining the “flow” of movement. Along the way, find out what Molly fears most of seeing while open-water swimming.
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| 0:27.2 | buy now at Samsung.com. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I am joined by my running partner today, Molly Williams. |
| 0:46.5 | Hello, hello, hello. So Molly, what should have been doing since the last few hours since I saw you? |
| 0:55.0 | Breakfast, dogs, the usual. Yep, yep. |
| 0:56.0 | So you found three pennies on the run this morning. |
| 1:00.0 | One of them was in the pavement though. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, right, but it's been a slow month. |
| 1:04.0 | I think I'm up to four cents now. |
| 1:07.0 | I hardly. |
| 1:08.0 | I think you five, didn't you find two? |
| 1:10.0 | I think you're not counting the penny that is still back there at 14th the mason. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm assuming you are well ahead of four or five cents or wherever I am at this point. |
| 1:20.0 | I only because I found that quarter in Connecticut and that was just oh my goodness so but what do you have |
| 1:28.9 | 30 cents you got more than that I probably have I don't know, 31, 32 cents. |
| 1:33.0 | But it's been a slow month. I mean, particularly, we had really strong June and July, |
| 1:37.3 | both of us did. I wonder why, maybe people, the streets, people are out and they're picking up the change you know because |
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