Amelia Boone | Embracing Uncertainty & Athletic Career Transition
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
4.8 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Amelia Boone is a longtime pro athlete living in Colorado. Amelia is one of the most decorated OCR athletes ever, winning four World Championships across Spartan and Tough Mudder. She has also had a decorated trail running career over many years. A few weeks ago, Amelia published a newsletter titled "Past My Prime," which explores aging as a pro athlete, yet finding joy as a lifelong practitioner of sport. That newsletter inspired this episode and occupies the bulk of the conversation.
Topics Discussed:
- Amelia's relationship with writing
- Her motto for 2024, "maybe"
- Becoming an unsponsored athlete
- Her inability to enjoy her prime athletic years
- The balance between happiness and performance
- Keeping a career outside of pro sport, even as a World Champion
- Finding joy in her career transition
- Turning 40
- The idea of retirement
- Pursuing purpose in life
- Her current relationship with running
- Goals for the future
- A lot more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to the free trial podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman here today with |
| 0:20.0 | Amelia Boone. What an honor, |
| 0:22.1 | the all-time legend, the four-time world champion as an OCR athlete, the decorated trail runner. |
| 0:28.3 | Amelia finally here for her first appearance on the podcast. I have followed Amelia's story for |
| 0:33.9 | probably 10 years now, but it was a recent newsletter that she wrote that inspired |
| 0:38.1 | us to connect and record an episode. The newsletter on Amelia Substack was titled, |
| 0:43.8 | Past My Prime, which explored career transitions for professional athletes while |
| 0:48.9 | attempting to maintain joy and love for sport as our peak abilities begin to fade. As usual, it is beautifully |
| 0:56.2 | written and touch me personally. Amelia and I are in a similar spot in our career. So it felt like a |
| 1:01.9 | good time to connect for a chat and what a great chat it was. Some topics we discuss, Amelia's |
| 1:07.7 | long-term relationship with writing. We talk about her motto for 2024, that being the word |
| 1:13.2 | maybe. We talk about becoming an unsponsored athlete recently. We talk about her inability to enjoy |
| 1:20.4 | her prime athletic years and why. We talk about the balance between happiness and performance, |
| 1:26.8 | keeping careers outside of sport, even as a world champion. We talk about the balance between happiness and performance, keeping careers outside of sport, |
| 1:29.4 | even as a world champion. |
| 1:30.8 | We talk about finding joy in her career transition. |
| 1:34.4 | We talk about turning 40, which Amelia did last year, the idea of retirement. |
| 1:40.5 | We talk about pursuing purpose in life. |
| 1:42.9 | We talk about her current relationship with running, goals for the future, and a lot more. |
| 1:48.5 | It was a really fun convoy. Before we get to it, big thanks to our brand partners who make the show possible, especially our presenting sponsor at the feed, but also Speedland, gnarly nutrition, ketone IQ, and Osprey. |
| 2:00.9 | Make sure you visit the show notes for links and discount codes to use on these great brands and great products. |
| 2:07.5 | I appreciate Amelia for joining. |
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