Episode 31: When it's OK to Quit: An Honest Conversation with Tina Muir

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tina is a professional distance runner, Great Britain Olympic hopeful, and 11-time All-America Track and Field/Cross Country athlete for Ferris State University.

She's run in two British Olympic Trials, finishing 3rd in the 10k in 2012 and 5th in the Marathon in 2016.

Her personal bests, as you can imagine, are out of this world:

5k - 16:08
10k - 33:24
Half Marathon - 1:13
Marathon - 2:36

Earlier this year, Tina made a stunning announcement that she was taking a hiatus as a pro runner. She's recovering from amenorrhea (she didn't have a period for 9 years) and is hoping to start a family soon.

But she realized that she just didn't enjoy her running anymore.

Every run was a struggle. She dreaded upcoming workouts and just wasn't excited about training anymore.

I consider this to be an unspoken problem in the running community. Amid calls for consistency, putting in the work, and training "no matter what" there lies a deeper issue: once you've done that, when is it ok to stop?

Tina is on the SR Podcast today to talk about her journey and give hope to runners everywhere whose hearts just aren't set on hard training anymore.

This is an honest, real, and personal conversation that I hope you enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set go.
0:04.8	This is episode 31 with British professional runner in 11-time All-America track and cross-country athlete,
0:11.2	Tina Muir. This episode is sponsored by health
0:15.0	this episode is sponsored by Health IQ, an insurance company that helps health
0:26.0	conscious people get special life insurance rates. Head on over to Health IQ.com slash
0:31.9	Strength Running to see how your running can help you save on insurance.
0:36.0	What's up runners? Thanks for joining me again on the Strength Running Podcast. This is your
0:40.9	host Jason Fitzgerald and I hope you've been training well running consistently and hopefully racing fast.
0:47.0	I'm sitting here recording this and my legs are completely fried.
0:52.0	If you saw my my Instagram account last weekend I
0:55.4	submitted the Manitou incline in Manitou Springs, Colorado last weekend and man
1:01.9	it was a brutal ascent. This is a trail that's only 9 tenths of a
1:06.8	mile long but it gains nearly 2,000 feet of elevation and I think the fastest
1:11.7	known time is just under 17 minutes. So I didn't race this
1:16.4	incline but I went in a pretty decent effort and I got to the top in just
1:20.4	under 30 minutes.
1:22.5	Then there was this four mile run back down to the bottom
1:25.6	and to my car, which only made the soreness worse.
1:28.4	So I'm really struggling, but there's nothing wrong with that.
1:31.8	It was a blast, and I hope to do it a few more times this summer and get my time down under 25 minutes.
1:38.0	I'd be really excited about that.
1:40.0	So I hope you're tackling some interesting goals yourself and let's get ready for today's show.
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