Dr. Jim Taylor - Endurance Sport Psychologist
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🗓️ 28 August 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jim Taylor is internationally recognized for his work in the psycology of endurance sports. He has worked with several pro cycling teams, has been consultant to USA Triathlon, and has worked junior-elite, age-group, world class and Olympic athletes in cross-country sking, triathlon, cycling, swimming and running.
Ian Torrence joins us as we discuss the time between the alarm and the gun on race morning. We dig deep into Dr. Taylor bag of tricks for dealing with pain in a long run.
Author of 14 books and over 750 articles Dr. Taylor's work can be found on his website at DrJimTaylor.com
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| 0:00.0 | Here we are with Ultra Footwares founder golden Harper and as you know if you've been listening |
| 0:13.0 | we do the ultra performance gate tips and bring on all their ultra athletes and talk |
| 0:18.1 | about how to watch your gate become more efficient and use the shoe and your body to reach |
| 0:24.9 | from start to finish in the most efficient fashion like to welcome golden Harper here |
| 0:29.7 | who's a runner himself and if you just followed a little bit of his history at age 10 he |
| 0:35.1 | runs a marathon at 308 you know you have something when you're 10 years old and you're |
| 0:39.6 | knocking out a 308 marathon comes back at 11 and runs at 257 and at 12 a 245 finish |
| 0:46.0 | amazing runs recent not too recent past a 50 mile and wins it on his debut Alpine to |
| 0:52.9 | slick rock 50 mile welcome golden Harper founder of ultra footwear good thing we don't |
| 1:02.3 | have sky cameras rolling and I can see the new shade of red and red face or now |
| 1:08.2 | hey ultra has really really come on to the scene and nothing harder than this recent |
| 1:13.5 | weekend at leadville 100 where you guys have had some great success why don't you share |
| 1:18.7 | a little bit about what your athletes have done there in your shoe yeah pretty phenomenal |
| 1:24.3 | you know first and second place finishes overall and can't can't say unexpected I went |
| 1:33.2 | ran with Ian Charman you know about two weeks before the race and he said he was still |
| 1:39.2 | in good he felt ready and you know he thought it would just come down to whoever was |
| 1:43.8 | having a better day I know he thought he should be up there and he thought those two guys |
| 1:49.8 | would be would be battling it out so you know it's hundreds are so unpredictable and there's |
| 1:56.0 | so many things that can go right or wrong I think you know we're just happy that the both of |
| 2:01.1 | those guys were able to get it done and finish one two so strong kind of front the back for |
| 2:07.1 | Ian and then a consistent performance coming from behind so pretty pretty exciting stuff yeah |
| 2:15.1 | I tell you you know it's really fun to watch and have been partnered with you guys on some of |
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