Do this when you hit the wall! / TRAIL

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Runners, when you hit the wall, Meghan Hicks suggests these two tips to push through.
She would know, she’s run over 60 trail races and ultras, won and won the Marathon des Sables. She's is the managing editor for IRunFar.com. She’s also the author of Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running. Today she tells Spartan Trail host Mauri Pagliacci about her experience at Nolan’s 14 where she's set multiple records. Back in the 2000’s, Meghan quit her first 100-mile race. It’s hard to believe – even Mauri Pagliacci was shocked to hear the news. Meghan explains why she quit and how to push-through those all too common rough patches. In this episode we cover:

#1 - When Meghan hit the wall at hour 13 of a 50-hour race, and how a few slices of pizza got her over the hump.
#2 - The two things that will get you through the ‘wall’. One is obvious, the other is not.
#3 - Why Meghan quit her first 100-mile race and how to avoid bowing out of races.

If you want to learn more about Meghan, check out her work at IRunFar.Com, as well as her social accounts:
· Instagram: @meghanmhicks
· Twitter: @@MeghanHicks

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0:00.0	For ultra running it comes down to two things first of all is experience you have to go through a rough patch and realize that there is another side and you do feel better and you can run again and you can eat again.
0:12.0	Welcome to Spartan Trail on Spartan Up
0:15.0	with your host, Maori Paliachi.
0:18.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Spartan Trail on the Spartan Up
0:22.0	podcast. I'm really, really happy and really proud of having today
0:25.8	Megan Hicks. Megan is the senior editor for Ironfar, which is the biggest trail running media in the world. So stay tuned, check it out.
0:37.2	Megan is amazing and then of course follow her everywhere.
0:40.5	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Gone Rogue High Protein chips.
0:44.6	Visit Amazon or Gone Rogue Snacks.com and use the promo code Spartan 25 to get 25% off.
0:51.0	You know that the topic of the podcast is called Rough Patches.
0:56.0	And I'm pretty sure you've been in Rough Patches.
0:59.4	And I have a million, I've heard a million stories from you about Rough Pat so I just want you to tell me you probably went through one during Nolands but then I know you have some amazing stories from Tordidians or from other big back country adventures.
1:14.7	So let me know if you have,
1:15.9	what's the first one that comes out of your mind
1:19.6	that you've been probably on the deepest dark hole and you were able to get out of it?
1:28.4	Well, I'd say my roughest patch for this past Nolan's 14 actually came only about 13 hours into the 50 hour
1:36.5	attempt which is really early like usually you'd expect to be feeling pretty good then. It was it was it had been a hot day like I started
1:47.0	before dawn this was evening it had been a hot day and I was already getting
1:51.5	to the point where it was hard to eat and so I was starting to rely on liquid nutrition to get my calories in and that was really disappointing like I had wanted to be able to eat solid food for a lot longer.
2:07.0	About 13 hours.
2:09.0	Yeah, out of a 50 hour attempt, like that's a lot of time to be relying on liquid calories to be moving in the mountains.
2:19.6	And yes, I was kind of like a little roughed up in the soul and I picked up my first
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