Episode 180 | Leidy Klotz

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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“The thing that I’ve realized I like about competitiveness is that, yes, it’s fun to beat other people in a soccer game and that’s one measure, but the real thing that’s rewarding is continuously getting better at something, or continuously working at something and putting in this work and seeing what the outputs are and continuing to try to do better. And even now I think I’m hopefully not at a permanent stage where I’m going backwards—but recovering from an injury—and I’m not running any of the same speeds that I have run in the past, but I’m working at it and I find it really rewarding to be better than I was last week.” This week’s conversation is a little different from the ones I usually have for the show. It’s with Leidy Klotz, a professor at the University of Virginia who studies how we transform things from how they are to how we want them to be. He’s the author of the book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less, which is the spark that set off this conversation, and he’s also a runner himself.In this episode, we talked about Leidy’s relationship to running and the place it holds in his life before getting into a discussion about subtraction and why it often gets neglected in favor of addition in so many aspects of our lives, including running. We talked about subtraction as it relates to coaching, writing training programs, and even running shoes, how to overcome our instinct to add to things all the time, looking at life through an editor’s lens, and a lot more.This episode is brought to you by:— Tracksmith. Tracksmith crafts performance running apparel, inspiring publications, and distinct experiences that allow runners to indulge in the sport’s rich culture. Tracksmith is offering new customers $15 off your first purchase of $75+. Just use code MARIO15 when you check out at tracksmith.com/mario.— 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-180-with-leidy-klotz/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: https://themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	The thing that I've realized I like about competitiveness is that yes, it's fun to beat
0:12.4	other people in a soccer game and that's like one measure, but the real thing that's
0:17.7	rewarding is continuously getting better at something or continuously working at something
0:25.7	and putting in this work and seeing what the outputs are and continuing to try to do better.
0:31.3	Even now I think I'm like hopefully not at a permanent stage where I'm going backwards
0:36.3	but like recovering from an injury and I'm not running any of the same speeds that I have run
0:42.9	in the past, but I'm working at it and I find it really rewarding to be better than I was last week.
0:55.7	Hey, what's up everyone? That was Lighty Clots. I'm your host Mario Fraole and you are listening
1:16.0	to the Morning Shake out podcast. This week's conversation is a little different from the ones
1:21.3	that I usually have for the show. It's with Lighty Clots who's a professor at the University of
1:26.2	Virginia and he studies how we transform things from how they are to how we want them to be.
1:31.7	He's the author of the book Subtract the Untapped Science of Less which is the spark that set off
1:36.6	this conversation and he's also a runner himself. In this episode we talked about Lighty's
1:42.4	relationship to running and the place that it holds in his life before getting into a discussion
1:47.1	about subtraction and why it often gets neglected in favor of addition in so many aspects of
1:52.1	our lives including running. We talked about subtraction as it relates to coaching, how to overcome
1:57.7	our instinct to add to things all the time, looking at life through an editor's lens and a lot more.
2:04.3	A big thank you to Tracksmith for their continued support of the Morning Shake out podcast. Tracksmith
2:09.3	is a Boston based running apparel brand born from a desire to celebrate both the history and
2:13.9	evolving culture of running. A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to be in Boston and host
2:18.9	the Shake Out Run and live podcast with Bill Rogers at the Track House and the energy was off the
2:24.9	hook. I didn't realize how much I missed the Race Weekend atmosphere and it was obvious that
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