EP 545: Survey Results Are In! Mental Health and Running

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ultrarunner and Psychologist, Jill Colangelo, recently published her thesis discussing the relationship of mental health and ultra endurance sports. Some of you may have even participated in her study! We discuss how prevalent mental illness is in our sport and how we can balance our passion with healthy living. You can read her paper HERE.

For more information or to talk with Jill visit her web site.

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0:00.0	We need many things to fortify us as people, and if we weave ourselves without adequate
0:08.8	resources, we can be in trouble.
0:10.9	For example, what happens if I have to stop running someday?
0:13.4	And that is what I call my therapy.
0:15.1	What if I get injured?
0:16.1	What if I get hurt?
0:17.1	What if I get sick?
0:18.1	If I am left in a place where that feels like the floor is falling out from under me,
0:22.9	I'm going to fall.
0:24.9	My goal with this research and my goal to help this community is to say, let's fortify
0:29.7	the person.
0:30.7	Let's strengthen the person, which will eventually strengthen the runner.
0:34.1	I want people to be able to run healthily forever.
0:42.8	Welcome to the Trail Hood of Trail Runner Nation, where we go on virtual trail runs with
0:47.1	really interesting guests that are experts that teach us how to be better runners and
0:52.0	possibly better humans.
0:53.8	So this is what we want you to do, lace up your shoes, grab yourself a you can energy
0:59.8	pack, and put on your toe socks from exoskin, and let's get down the trail.
1:05.2	Hey, today's guest is runner scientist Jill Kalangelo, and she's going to talk to us
1:11.2	about the mental health and well-being of our community.
1:15.2	And it is a great conversation, Scott.
1:17.7	I learned a lot about myself and the people I run with.
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