Episode 29 | Mario Mendoza

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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"To me that's faith. To me that's faith in running. So I think runners understand faith because a lot of times we don't really see something and it might even take years, but then it's like 'Whoa! Where did that come from?' But it was actually because you stuck with it—something in you believed."Really excited to have Mario Mendoza join me on the podcast this week! Mendoza, a 32-year-old from Bend, Oregon, is a five-time national trail running champion, three-time USATF Trail Runner of the Year, and has represented the United States six times in international competition. He's placed in the top-10 at the last two IAU Trail World Championships, finishing sixth in 2018 and ninth in 2017. We recorded this episode the day before his last race—a third-place finish at the Under Armour Mountain Running Series 50K at Mt. Bachelor this past Saturday—and two days before the birth of his son, Jair Giovanni Mendoza.We covered a lot of ground over the course of this hour-long episode: the message he'll give his newborn son upon entering the world, what it was like growing up in a Mexican family on an avocado ranch in Cambria, California and how that experience has shaped his perspective on life and running, his work as a pastor and what faith means to him, how he got into running and the various ways his career has progressed and evolved over the years, why he's constantly reminding himself not to get caught up in outcomes when it comes to racing, why representing the United States at global championships is so important to him, and a whole lot more.Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford at BaresRecords.comComplete show notes here: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-29-with-mario-mendoza/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	To me that's faith, that's faith in running. So I think runners understand faith because
0:07.9	because a lot of times we don't really see
0:12.1	Something and it might even take years but then it's like whoa where
0:16.9	that come from but it was actually because you you stuck you were believing
0:20.0	it the whole time yeah Yeah, you, you, something and you believed.
0:23.2	That's Mario Mendoza, and this is episode 29 of the Morning Shakeout
0:34.8	podcast. I'm your host Mario Freoli and this week we've got my namesake Mario
0:39.7	Mendoza. Mario is a professional trail and ultra runner from Bend Oregon.
0:43.6	He's also a five-time national champion.
0:45.8	He's represented the US six times at global championships.
0:49.2	He's a three-time US trailrunner of the year.
0:51.6	Most recently, he was sixth at the I
0:53.7	A U Trail World Championships in Spain. It was his second straight top 10
0:57.2	finish at that event. In short, the guy is a stud and I think you'll learn
1:01.9	a lot from him. This was a great conversation, one of the
1:04.7	favorite ones I've had thus far on this podcast. We talked about his life as a
1:09.9	pastor, as a soon-to-be dad, as a professional trail and ultra- ultra runner talked about what it was like to grow up in Cambridge, California on an avocado farm with his family and how that experience has shaped his own life perspective today.
1:22.0	We talked about how he got into running, how his career
1:24.7	has progressed since that time in high school. We talked about why he reminds himself not to get
1:29.6	caught up in outcomes when it comes to race day, even though he's a very competitive person.
1:34.0	That's something I believe we can all benefit from.
1:36.0	We talked about what it's like to represent Team USA and why that means so much to him and why we both
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