Episode 171 | Ask Mario Anything #7

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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“A lot of athletes—especially when things are going really well—the last thing they want to do is take a break, even if their goal race is in the rearview. Trust me on this: You want to take your breaks as seriously as your training. It’s much better to take a planned break and be a little grumpy about it at the beginning than be forced to take a break sometime down the road because you’re injured, burned out, sick, overtrained, whatever it may be. I see this all the time, not only with athletes that I work with but people who reach out to me with questions, and people I train with—when things are going good, you want to keep them going, but we’re human beings. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, how good you are, we all need breaks. You need breaks to absorb training, you need breaks to shut things down mentally as much as physically, especially if you’re someone who’s doing hard workouts and long runs and always building toward the next goal. That takes a lot of mental and emotional energy—you can’t be on all the time, you’ve got to shut it off.”This week on the podcast I’m answering listener questions in the second Ask Mario Anything episode of 2021. (You can check out the first one here.) On the other side of the mic for this one—once again—is sponsorship director, Chris Douglas. We got some good questions about about me running Boston in the fall, the importance of taking breaks in training, the controversy around Timothy Olson’s recent FKT on the PCT, channeling my own passion for running into a creative pursuit, what information you should include in your running log, and a lot more. This episode is brought to you by:— New Balance. The new FuelCell Rebel v2 is my new favorite running shoe. It’s super super light, it’s incredibly responsive, and offers good protection underfoot. I think it’s the perfect workout shoe and I’ll be using it all the time. Check it out today at newbalance.com and consider adding a pair to your rotation today.— Goodr: If you want to support the podcast and treat yourself to a pair of goodr sunglasses, head over to goodr.com/MARIO or enter the code MARIO at checkout for 15% off your order. Look good, run goodr!Complete show notes: https://themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-171--ask-mario-anything/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	A lot of athletes, especially when things are going really well, the last thing that they
0:11.5	want to do is take a break, even if their goal race is in the rear view, but trust me
0:16.0	on this, you want to take your breaks as seriously as you're training and much better to take
0:22.1	a planned break and be a little grumpy about it at the beginning, then be forced to take
0:28.0	a break sometime down the road because you're injured, burned out, sick, over-trained, over-trained,
0:33.1	whatever it may be. I see this all the time, not only with athletes that I work with, but
0:37.8	folks who reach out to me for questions, people that I train with. When things are going good,
0:42.0	you want to keep them going, but we're human beings. No matter how experienced you are,
0:46.6	how good you are, we all need breaks. You need breaks to absorb training, you need breaks to
0:51.6	just shut things down mentally as much as physically, especially if you were someone who's
0:57.4	doing hard workouts and long runs and always building toward the next goal. That takes a lot
1:03.0	of mental and emotional energy. You can't be on all the time. You got to shut it off.
1:27.8	We're rolling for the second Ask Mario Anything episode of 2021. We're a little behind
1:37.5	schedule on this one, but we got a lot of questions submitted from listeners on the other side of
1:43.2	the mic for this one. Once again, two in a row. Chris Douglas, sponsorship director of The Morning
1:48.9	Shake Out. Thanks for coming back on with me. Happy to be here. It's a lot of fun last time.
1:53.8	Looking forward to doing it again. Yeah, I think I'll probably hear from Jeff and John
1:58.2	after this one that they had to sit another one out. You know what? I think I have an unfair
2:04.4	advantage that I live literally four point two miles away from you, I think. Is it exactly four
2:10.5	point two miles? Yeah, it's exactly that. I run by your house on my, I have this Wednesday loop
2:16.1	that I do, so I know exactly how far it is. Yeah, cool. Well, I'm excited to be here. You have a
2:22.0	lovely back patio. It's a great place to have this kind of conversation, but catch me up on
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