Create Your Own Reality with Gene Dykes / ENDURANCE

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

“It comes down to doing a little bit more each year,” says Gene Dykes, on how to create a mindset that bucks societal norms of what’s possible.

Spartan Up Endurance Series host, Johnny Waite, talks with Gene about how to have fun while running, how to insulate yourself from societal pressures that say ‘you’re too old to run’ and Gene’s approach to goal setting. In this episode you’ll learn:

-What time of the year to set goals and what criteria to use when picking a race

-Be choosy about who you let in your inner circle: Gene’s limitless mindset is a product of the people he surrounds himself with

-When picking a race, ask yourself: what can I do to make it fun?

-Gene’s most prized record

Connect with Gene:

-Twitter: @TheUltraGeezer

-Instagram: @genewdykes

-Website: UltraGeezer

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CREDITS:

Producer: Ryan Warner

Hosts: Johnny Waite

Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's just a truism that if you just each year say what can I do a little bit more than last year
0:08.5	It's amazing how soon you're doing things that used to be impossible.
0:14.0	And not only that, they've become routine,
0:17.0	and now they're not even worth talking about it.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Spartan Endurance Series on Spartan Up Podcast with host Johnny White.
0:24.8	Hey Spartans, welcome back to the Spartan Up Podcast.
0:26.8	I'm Johnny White, one of the hosts and the host of the endurance episodes.
0:30.1	We're back with Gene Dykes.
0:31.3	We spoke last time with Gene about how to run fast times as you get older.
0:35.2	You're going to hear from Gene about how to have fun and how to create your own mindset and just
0:38.8	do things that other people couldn't even imagine.
0:41.6	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Amazfit. From May
0:45.3	18th to May 31st Spartan Up listeners can head to US. amazefit.com slash Pages slash Spartan to save $40 on a bundle that includes the Amaz fit
0:57.4	T-Rex Pro that's US dot Amazfit.com. Slash Pages slash Spartan.
1:04.0	Hey Spartans, we're back here with Gene Dykes.
1:08.0	And Gene is a 72 year old who has run a sub-hour marathon, the only person living on the planet who's done that.
1:16.6	And we were talking last time about his training and how he's managed to maintain this kind of speed at this kind of age and it
1:24.9	started to drift into a second conversation that I wanted to come back for and
1:27.9	that was how often we are given an external reality that we're supposed to buy into, you know, that 70
1:37.0	year olds don't run sub three hour marathons, for example, or that you know when you don't complete a 250 mile race at 72, you don't just go and set a goal for running a 300 mile race at 73.
1:51.0	And Gene, that's what fascinated me the most about our conversation is you don't
1:54.3	seem to buy into any of the societally prescribed norms. You know, to you it's I'm going to go
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