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Brave Athlete - Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever have thoughts and feelings you don't want?

Sport and exercise psychologist,  Dr. Simon Marshall and 3-time Xterra world champion, Lesley Paterson join The Nation to help us understand how the brain works and how we can train it to make our training, racing and personal life better.

They co-authored the book, "Brave Athlete - Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion"

You can learn more about their unique coaching paradigm HERE Simon coaches your brain and Lesley coaches your body.

Try out their FREE "Smog Report" personalized advice to optimize your training

Fun video introduction of the book.

Follow Simon and Lesley on Twitter

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, we are excited about a new manufacturer, they're a major manufacturer that is getting

0:12.4

into the trail running scene and they're doing it in a very big way.

0:16.7

One of those ways is they have Tofer Gaylord who has been with the North Face group with

0:23.2

Montreille and Mountain Hardware and now he's with Under Armour.

0:27.5

If you want to do something big, you look back into the history of what people have done

0:30.9

and you bring them along to help move your brand forward and Tofer is the guy to do it.

0:36.5

If you've been around the sport any amount of time, you've seen them and let me tell you

0:40.0

Scott where I first became aware of Tofer and I've shared this with you before Tofer

0:44.4

but I have a feeling that the people are listening weren't standing around our conversation

0:49.1

and that is when I was watching Race for the Soul, that movie about Western States and I

0:55.3

saw Tofer on there and he was explaining the race and the enthusiasm he had and I said

1:00.6

you know what?

1:01.6

I want part of that.

1:02.6

I want to get some of what he's talking about so Tofer know what or not.

1:06.9

You've been one of my mentors and one of the people that helped pull me into the sport.

1:13.5

Right on you guys, hey thanks for having me on and thanks for the words, it's always humbling

1:22.0

to speak about the ultra running community and the sport just has in the trail running

1:28.6

community just has so much passion and genuine authenticity to it and you know the coolest

1:35.8

thing about trail running is just the relationships that are born and I think that's part of that

1:44.0

through kind of shared experiences of the mountains and then the shared experiences

1:48.8

of kind of pushing beyond what you think your capabilities are.

1:52.4

So awesome to be on with you guys and psych to share some thoughts with you.

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