EP 549: Running Through the Ups & Downs with Patrick Reagan
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Reagan has twenty years of running experience and had been coaching endurance athletes for ten years. But in 2021 he found himself in a funk that he couldn't figure out. In this episode, Patrick explains that his increased fatigue and changing emotions were a result of low ferritin and iron levels. He reveals what changes he made and how he is coming back to his real self.
Patrick runs professionally for Hoka One One and GU Energy Labs. Here are his recent accomplishments:
- 2017 finished 12th at Comrades Marathon in South Africa
- 2017 first 100-mile @ Javelina Hundred, won and set course record in 13:01.14 AND defended his title in 2018 and 2019
- 2019 USATF 100-mile champ and CR at Brazos Bend 100
- 2019 1st WS100 (8th place)
- 2021 19th WS100
Be sure to check out his new coaching website.
Lives in Savannah, CA with wife Adrienne, 2 dogs and 2 cats
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I ran 900s between 2017 and 2021 and all of them were quite fast, like Western |
| 0:10.6 | States. |
| 0:11.6 | So I felt like I needed a little break and you have to sometimes when you get really |
| 0:16.4 | in the tank there like I was and I knew one of the solutions was to have a true offseason. |
| 0:20.8 | I felt like I emotionally needed it anyway and that 12 weeks was just excellent for me. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the Trailhead of Trailrunner Nation, where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting |
| 0:40.7 | guest that tells some great stories to help us become better runners and hopefully even |
| 0:45.6 | better human beings. |
| 0:47.6 | Today's guest is Patrick Regan and we're going to talk about some things that I think we |
| 0:51.9 | all go through sometimes that we're running and we feel like we're just not to the top |
| 0:56.1 | of our game. |
| 0:57.4 | It happened to him and we're going to hear how he got out of it. |
| 1:00.5 | So here we go Scott, let's go for the run. |
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| 1:41.1 | a candy cane, a mistletoe or a sugar cookie, there you go. |
| 1:46.0 | Native has you covered. |
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