BONUS NYRR Live: Jonathan Fader, Deena Kastor, and Special Guest, Kubra -R4R 156
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, in this special bonus New York City Marathon pre race episode, we covered everything you need to remind yourself of the day before your race as well as how to handle the tough moments in the race.
From seeing your nerves as excitement, to using gratitude to remind you how lucky you are to be here, this episode with Olympic Bronze Medalist Deena Kastor and Sports Psychologist, Dr Jonathan Fader will be sure to provide you with all the support you need to be ready for your race.
Along with Deena and Fader, we break down the emotions and feelings that runners are experiencing in the 24 hours before the race. Although waves of self doubt can appear often and at any time, we cannot control our thoughts. What we can control though, is the response we give to that thought, which can be incredibly powerful. Fader, having worked with many runners in his years as a psychologist, knows how much we can overthink our races in the time before the race, and has fantastic advice for how to deal with it.
Deena shares her experience, her wisdom, and how she would turn a panicked mind around in both the pre race time and during hard moments during the race. This is advice you will want to hear over and over again, save this episode for your next race.
In the final 15 minutes of the show, we bring out Kubra, who raced the NYC marathon this weekend for Free To Run, an international organization that works to support women and girls in areas of conflict through adventure sports to build their physical, emotional, and social well being and develop them into community leaders to bring people together across religious, ethnic, and social divides. They currently work with 800 girls a year in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Kubra shares her inspiring story of why she decided to run, and what it represents. Her bravery and courage will motivate you.
Thank you to The New York Road Runners, who kindly hosted this episode at the NYRR RUNCENTER Ft New Balance Run Hub. Thank you to everyone who attended this live event. If you wish to attend a future live show in a city near you, be sure to check my scheduleto see what episodes are coming up.
Mile 20 Mental Training Course: Win Your Own Race goes on sale in just over a month. The doors will open for a VERY limited time, and then close until May 2020, so don't miss out. Even if you do not intend to start the 12 week course until early 2020, you can begin at any time, but you cannot purchase at any time. To get on the Mile 20 Mental Training Course: Win Your Own Race waitlist, where you will be guaranteed a spot on the course, sign up here. Or learn more about the course here.
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| 0:00.0 | Be your own cheerleader. It is very easy to be our own critics. We can stand in front of |
| 0:06.6 | the mirror and pick out a million things we don't like about ourselves. It's much harder |
| 0:09.8 | to stand there and pick up all the things that we adore is so important that you have |
| 0:14.8 | to practice it and what better time to start practicing than during mile 20 of |
| 0:18.7 | the New York City Marathon. |
| 0:20.3 | This is Running for Real, the podcast for runners who know that for every runners high, there are just as many lows. |
| 0:28.0 | All those just missed PRs, easy runs that feel hard, injury blues and more. |
| 0:33.0 | Each week we'll talk to running, health, and wellness experts about their highs, |
| 0:38.0 | lows and best advice to build our confidence. |
| 0:41.0 | Running for real is about being honest, being brave, and most of all |
| 0:46.0 | not feeling alone. And now here's our host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:51.1 | Hello my friends, welcome to this bonus episode number 153 of the Running for Real Podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:00.4 | I am really excited to bring you this episode and bring it out pretty quickly |
| 1:05.5 | after it was recorded. This was a live show I did in New York just this weekend. As you can hear from my voice, it starting to strain a little bit after a lot of talking, |
| 1:16.0 | a lot of podcast recordings which you are going to get in the coming weeks and just kind of |
| 1:21.5 | possibly overdoing it a little bit, but it's kind of worth it isn't it the |
| 1:25.2 | atmosphere here in New York is just incredible as I'm recording this the marathon is the next day |
| 1:30.8 | and I'm looking forward to going to watch it. Now on Friday we had an episode from |
| 1:36.7 | Ali Butler Glenesc and she was kind of talking about taking on adventures or you know these big feats that maybe you think aren't possible. |
| 1:47.1 | Maybe you think you're never going to be someone who does stuff like that. |
| 1:50.1 | You're just a middle or back of the packer. Well hopefully Ali showed you that you |
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