Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and yeah, we've been

offline the last two weeks, and that's because I was getting married to the love of my life, and it was

awesome. But now we're back, and we have got some good old-fashioned content coming your way. In this episode, we're talking with Brad Stolberg, who has authored many books in the emerging

interdisciplinary research field of performance science, including his latest Masters of Change,

which we have linked in the show notes.

In this conversation, we tie all of the key takeaways from those books back to the world of

Mountain Ultra Trail Running, specifically discussing topics like willpower depletion, whether

talent needs trauma, the benefits of group training, and much more.

With that, let's get started.

Brad Stolberg, I am excited to have you on the show.

How are you doing today?

Hey, Finn.

I'm doing all right.

It's great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

I'm excited to have you.

Of course, you have a new book out called Masters of Change, which we will be talking

a lot about in this episode today.

There's one question that I do want to start with. It actually goes back to your first

book, Peak Performance. And you talk there a bit about energy management, more specifically

mental energy management. And for context, most people who listen to this show, they are either

pro trail runners themselves or they're interested

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