EP 600: Knowing When to Back Off
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Coach Ian Sharman is one of the most consistent and successful trail and ultra runners. This year he had a few A-races that didn't go as expected. We talk through why.
We discuss knowing when to back off and how to keep running sustainable for the long term.
Some items that we discussed and we promised to link:
- The Range Report Newsletter by David Epstein
- Book: Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke
- Learn more about running in Bhutan!
Find out more about Sharman Ultra Coaching
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| 0:00.0 | So you don't know any of these things for certain. All I know in the race in the moment |
| 0:04.7 | is I feel like crap and this is way worse than I'd expect at mile six. So you're trying |
| 0:10.5 | to make a decision in the moment of what is the right thing to do and what am I not going |
| 0:15.5 | regret doing. Welcome to the trailhead of trail runner nation where we go on virtual trail |
| 0:32.9 | runs with experts that are going to help us become better runners, hopefully better human |
| 0:37.9 | beings, and we have a great guest today for Eman. Today we're running with Ian Sharman |
| 0:43.6 | and we're going to talk about the very popular subject. Should we stop or should we tough |
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