Episode 316: Yes, You Can Run a Marathon – Five Key Points to Help Conquer Your Distance Run
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. This week, we aim to inspire, instill hope, and create opportunities. Many people watch others doing amazing things and think, "That's not for me. I couldn't do that." But the truth is, you can do it if you apply a smart and patient approach that builds incrementally over time. Before you know it, you can look back and marvel at what you have accomplished, regardless of the challenge or goal, whether in sport or life.
In this week's episode, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon focuses on marathon and half marathon races. Half marathons are a great starting point for many people and can serve as a bridge to longer distances. Whether you've struggled with injuries or don't consider yourself a runner, Matt offers insight and tips to help you break through those barriers.
Drawing from two case studies, Matt explores the common challenges faced by athletes training for long-distance runs and offers simple solutions to maximize their potential. The first case study features an athlete who initially believed completing a race was impossible, but ultimately discovered untapped capabilities. The second case study showcases an athlete who overcame injuries by adjusting their approach and achieved significant success. We believe you’ll find these stories informative, helpful, and inspiring and we hope they motivate you to take on your challenges.
Matt also shares his five-point plan to help you refocus your approach and mindset, to get you started on your first or next long-distance race. Check out our free live webinar, Strategies to Nail Your Marathon & Half Marathon, where Matt offers a more in-depth analysis of these points.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 04:05 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
04:13 - 13:58 - Coach's Corner
14:05 - 29:02 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 316: Yes, You Can Run a Marathon – Five Key Points to Help Conquer Your Distance Run
29:04 - 30:38 - Purple Patch Squad Information
30:40 - 41:22 - Yes, You Can Run a Marathon Cont.
41:24 - 42:54 - Purple Patch Program Information
42:55 - 50:59 - Yes, You Can Run a Marathon Cont.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:16.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:25.6 | Today we're unlocking your potential and opportunity, facilitating a roadmap in which you can |
| 0:31.6 | participate and excel in a half marathon or of course the mighty marathon distance. |
| 0:41.9 | In order to be successful, each of us needs a robust platform of health, |
| 0:46.7 | and that's derived by a set of practices and habits that can help facilitate that with incremental improvements over time. |
| 0:49.0 | One of the key tools that we use at Purple Patch to narrow down the focus and ensure |
| 0:53.7 | that we're driving the levers |
| 0:55.8 | that are absolutely going to drive ultimate successful performance development is inside |
| 1:01.5 | tracker. Because by taking a look inside at your biometrics, we can achieve a personalized action |
| 1:07.8 | plan to filter out the distractions, reduce the noise, establish control and |
| 1:13.3 | ensure that you're prioritising the elements that are going to help build your platform of |
| 1:17.2 | health and performance readiness. It's the gasoline on the performance fire. Now, we leverage it |
| 1:23.1 | at our athletes at Purple Patch. I utilize it myself and are not paid to say that. I should point out, but you can leverage it too. You don't need to be a Purple Patch. I utilize it myself and are not paid to say that. I should point out. |
| 1:29.4 | But you can leverage it too. You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete. All you need to do is |
| 1:32.9 | head to inside tracker.com slash Purple Patch. And you can use this sneaky code, Purple Patch Pro 20. |
| 1:38.8 | That gets you 20% of everything at the store. I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:43.7 | Hey folks, we are going to get going. Just one more |
| 1:45.9 | note before we get going with the show. Remember, we are hiring a one-to-one coach right now. We've had |
| 1:51.6 | a slew of applicants, some excellent people that are going to go forward to the interview process. |
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