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The Running for Real Podcast

Beth Pascall: Focus On The Process, Not The Result - R4R 259

The Running for Real Podcast

Tina Muir

Sports, Running, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Excited to welcome Beth Pascall on the show, who just finished 7th overall and first woman at the 2021 Western States endurance race. She placed a record as second fastest female ever on the 100-mile run with a time of 17 hours, 10 minutes, and 41 seconds. Beth is a British pediatrician and took time off from her job as a doctor and spent 10 weeks in the US training for Western States. Beth even got married a few days after her Western States finish.
Beth also recently won the Canyons 100K and holds the FKT for the Bob Graham Round with a time of 14 hours and 34 minutes.
“The mental preparation is just important as a physical preparation.” –Beth Pascall
In this episode we cover…
  • The logistics Beth had to go through for training for Western States, the actual race, her wedding right after the race, and her work as a pediatrician.
  • How trying different sports helps you in athletic performance. For Beth it was trying rowing, cycle touring and triathlon, until she found ultra-endurance running.
  • “I don't think I ever really believed I could Western States until 2018 when I got picked.”
  • The importance of confidence. “I came to realize that I thought my confidence was affecting my results because I truly never thought I could do well in a race. Just having people around me that really believed in me and gave me that confidence.”
  • She’s done 250-mile distances which add the sleep deprivation element into it
  • “It's possible to keep going and also learning to listen to your body, that way you’ll know what it feels like when you need to back off.”

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challenges we're facing as humanity.

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So come join me, Tina Muir and let's get started.

0:44.6

Hello my friends, all welcome to episode 259 of the Running for Real podcast.

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Thank you for joining me today, I'm excited you are here.

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I want to take a moment to thank all those of you who have been sharing your together runs,

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which come out every Monday, you have been really enjoying those and putting the hashtag

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of the number of together run it is, for example, together run 12, together run 15,

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whatever number we are at.

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But I love seeing this, I love going through them, I love imagining that I'm running with you too.

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And if you haven't checked out a together run, be sure to go subscribe to the Running for

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Real podcast on your favorite podcast player so you can go get those automatically, especially if

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you are an iTunes user, they have changed the format of that so it makes it a little bit more

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difficult to go find shows without subscribing. Go check one out, people are enjoying them and I

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think you will too. Now today I am excited to welcome a guest who we were actually really fortunate

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here to be the first media request of anything that she had done since her race at Western States.

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I'm excited to bring Beth Pascal on the show who had just said one Western States in 2021,

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but she also has a lot of other race results that she has accomplished in one and things.

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