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EP 566: Strategies of Mental Running

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Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago we spoke with Addie Bracy about mental training.  We loved it so much we bought her book, Mental Training for Ultrarunning: Your Psychological Skills for Ultra Success, and asked AJW if he would join us to talk about the principles she writes about.

Visit her mental performance page at Strive Mental Performance

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Adaptability in my opinion is probably like the biggest superpower being able to pivot

0:07.5

in the moment, being able to not be attached to like how you thought a certain part of

0:10.9

the race was going to go.

0:11.9

That's certainly been, I would say, the biggest shift in my mentality over the last six

0:16.4

months or a year.

0:17.4

Adaptability is part of the race.

0:19.2

Things are going to go wrong and you need to treat that as the race, not as like crap,

0:22.8

or something's getting in my way.

0:35.3

You have found yourself at the trailhead of trail runner nation where we go on runs with

0:40.1

you virtual runs and we have guests that help encourage us, give us a little bit of inspiration

0:46.6

and maybe some knowledge that will help us become better runners and maybe better people.

0:51.7

If this is your first time, we hope that you enjoy yourself, put on your shoes, lace

0:55.6

them up, grab a beverage, grab a gel, let's go for a run.

0:59.6

And today we're doing a virtual run with Adi Bracy and she's the author of the book

1:03.4

Mental Training for Ultra Running, the Psychological Skills Guidebook for Ultra Success.

1:09.0

And we have a great round table discussion about some of the golden nuggets we found as we

1:13.2

turn the pages through that book.

1:15.2

So stay tuned and learn some things just like we did.

1:19.6

That's what showed up in the mail just this week, Don, you know, I'm hoping it's a set

1:24.7

of gooders because I've been anxiously awaiting for my new gooders.

1:28.8

Their sunglasses, Don, we need to make sure people know good or sunglasses.

1:33.4

I was just to race this weekend the American River 50 and everybody that was anybody had

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