Episode 299: Mike Glover is Joined by Ultra Distance Runner, Ben Light, to Discuss Mindset & Endurance
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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In this episode, Mike Glover sits down with Ben Light who is an Ultra Distance Runner and the Founder of Adventure Your Potential - which focuses on strength and endurance coaching. Ben shares what got him into the sport, strategies for completing these grueling events, as well as the mindset needed to professionally compete in some of the longest races on the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | A |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah Preciate I got bin light from adventure your potential |
| 0:27.7 | local Hebrew Valley guy. I wanted to talk to you because I'm getting into the season of non-injury, |
| 0:39.5 | getting people motivated, kind of get off their butts, and get more physically fit. |
| 0:43.9 | Coming out of spring, obviously, or coming into spring, and then going into summer, |
| 0:48.3 | coming out of the winter months here. This is one of the most active places on the planet for people, |
| 0:53.2 | right? The things to do. I ran into you in the gym, and then a couple of events that we had, |
| 0:58.5 | and didn't realize it until we had conversations about it that you're an expert at this. |
| 1:03.0 | This is you've been your life. For people who don't know your background, let's talk about |
| 1:07.3 | your background and kind of how you got to the point in which what you're doing right now, |
| 1:11.7 | adventure, your potential, and all the things you're doing full time. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, so I'm a founder of Adventure Your Potential. What that is is a strength, endurance, |
| 1:20.7 | coaching, and what my forte is is an ultra running on the endurance and then as an endurance athlete. |
| 1:31.6 | As an ultra, there's a variety of different lengths of distances, and I specialize in 200 plus |
| 1:40.2 | miles. At a time, at a time, races that exceed 200 plus miles. Why would you want to do that? |
| 1:47.5 | Where does that come from? 200 plus miles is considered ultra? |
| 1:53.2 | Well, yeah. Anything above even a marathon. It's a 26.1 is ultra. |
| 2:02.6 | 26.2, but you got like 50 Ks. They kind of go by kilometers. You got 50 miles, 100 Ks, |
| 2:11.9 | 100 miles. And now, I ever since about, I mean, longer than distances than 100 miles have been |
| 2:18.8 | around probably from the beginning of time, you know, from, you know, primal days of people |
| 2:27.1 | running long distances. You hear about Greeks and all that stuff and Spartans and stuff like that, |
| 2:31.7 | just like endurance, endurance events like that. But it's gotten incredibly popular since about |
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