ENDURANCE/ How to Grow Your Endurance with Courtney Dauwalter 591
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Courtney Dauwalter is an ultra-marathon racing champion. She was named Ultra Runner of the Year in 2018, and has won some of the most prestigious races in the endurance world, such as the Moab 240 and the Western States. Follow Courtney at @courtdauwalter.
Courtney shares how-to advice on how to grow your endurance. In this episode, we cover…
-Competitiveness doesn't know genders
-Discovering ultra-running
-How to grow your endurance
-When your normal distance is 100 miles
-How to rest your body and brain, before a bit race
-Courtney's why
-Courtney's battle with the mental wall
-Emotional and pain management
-What's next for Courtney
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| 0:00.0 | The longest official race I've ever run is 279 miles. |
| 0:04.7 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Lumen metabolism tracker. |
| 0:08.4 | The first device to track your metabolism and provide daily personalized nutrition plans for peak performance. |
| 0:14.4 | Visit lumen. M. E to order and use the code Spartan 50 for $50 off. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey I couldn't be more excited. I'm here with Courtney to Walter. Courtney's in Colorado. I'm in Canada, but I have an American flag up here just for Courtney. I did that just for you. |
| 0:29.0 | Actually, I'm at a marina that has a lot of Americans here as well. |
| 0:33.0 | So although not right now unfortunately, we don't have any of our American friends here |
| 0:36.0 | with this whole closed border thing. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, I'm sure. |
| 0:39.0 | Your background is cooler than mine right now. |
| 0:42.1 | It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day. Which I couldn't be more excited. So |
| 0:46.3 | Courtney I've known about you for a while we haven't met until now but you've |
| 0:50.4 | become super famous in the endurance world over the last number of years. |
| 0:54.0 | I know in 2018 you were ultra runner of the year. |
| 0:57.0 | But in addition to just being a badass racer, |
| 1:01.0 | I think what really put you on my radar was when you started popping up in all these news articles about winning races outright like not just being the top woman but being the top racer in some really big races. So welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. You're |
| 1:16.8 | welcome. You probably get tired of that question, you know, as though that's the |
| 1:20.0 | only thing you're famous for is beating the men. But I do want to talk about that for a second, but |
| 1:24.6 | then I want to dive into some specific questions about your approach to racing and some tips |
| 1:28.3 | that our listeners and viewers can take from it. But so yeah, tell me about where you are in the world and just a little |
| 1:34.0 | bit about your background. Right now I live and train in Colorado right outside of |
| 1:39.6 | Denver in a town called Golden. And I'm originally from Minnesota, |
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