38 Anna Hertel - Losing Triathlon and Gaining Perspective

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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At just 34 years of age, Anna Hertel will likely never compete at another IRONMAN. Five years ago, that concept would’ve been devastating and unimaginable because, like a lot of people, triathlon was her identity.

Anna’s story is one of growth; growth as a human even in the midst of overwhelming adversity, which has come hard and fast in all facets of her life.

This is also a story of finding your place within endurance sports even when the sport you love must cease.

What has emerged from the chaos is a mature and patient mindset - a mindset filled with purpose and gratitude and her lessons resonate universally:

Stop being in a hurry
Meet your body where it’s at - not where you think it’s at
Check your internal health and journal your personal progress; not just the data
Don’t take yourself too seriously

And, as Matt Dixon says, “Keep the sport fun. Give yourself permission to enjoy it. Training is super, but it isn’t YOU.”

What a powerful evolution, indeed.

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:00-:20 Purple Patch Weekly Intro

:22-3:30 Matt's Introduction to the Podcast and Preview

3:45-7:30 Word of the Week - "All In"

7:40-58:30 Anna Hertel Interview

58:30-1:04:25 Athlete Questions of the Week - Heat Acclimation

1:04:30-1:06:27 Matt Dixon's Lessons of the Week

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:19.9	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. Once again,
0:23.5	your host, Matt Dixon, and this week, Anna Hurtell. You might not have heard of Anna. I've been
0:29.7	coaching her for five years, but this is a story of finding her place within endurance sports.
0:37.1	You see, ultimately every strength is a weakness.
0:41.3	And so often, strength such as willpower and motivation and commitment
0:45.6	can lead to ultimately what can only be called an unhealthy relationship in sport.
0:52.3	Anna's story today is one of growth. Growth as a human being all through
0:57.2	adversity. At just 34 years of age, she'll probably never run an Iron Man again. Ask her five years ago,
1:04.8	that concept would have been devastating. It would have been her identity ripped away from her.
1:10.7	Now it's just another roadblock and the
1:13.2	emergence of a mature mindset to appreciating the power of fitness and health to foster a big
1:19.1	and ultimately magical life i think you'll enjoy it before we get in i want to give you a little sneak
1:25.1	peek of what's coming up in the next few weeks
1:28.1	that I think will enjoy. We've got a few great guests coming onto the show and a couple of,
1:32.9	I think, very interesting and important conversations to be had. So first up, we're going to have
1:38.2	Alex Hutchinson. Alex is the author of Endure. Many of you guys would have read the book. He's a well-known writer for
1:45.2	Outside Magazine, a super guy, a wonderful resource. And Alex and I yap about all things performance.
1:51.6	I promise you, it's quite exceptional. I'm also going to be joined by Joachim Candler.
1:57.6	Joaquin is the head of AI at Facebook, So you can imagine quite a metric head, or at least
2:03.5	one might suspect. The story tells a different picture. Wakene is also a keen triathlete and I actually
2:09.8	coach Wachim. I asked him on the show to talk about metrics, tracking for success, the art of feel,
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