Episode 338: Sonya Looney – 24 hour mountain bike world champion on mindset and determination
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Sonya Looney is a mountain bike world champion for the 24 hour mountain bike world championships. She is a health coach and has written a cookbook, she has her own podcast called the Sonya Looney show, she has an apparel line, and has a mindset course. She is really good at speaking about positive psychology, mental toughness, and mindfulness based techniques to help people find more fulfillment in their everyday life. She has a lot of tips and techniques for reframing your mindset when the race gets really tough.
What we talked about:
7:10- Sonya’s introduction to running
9:20- Where Sonya’s passion for adventure comes from
13:45- How Sonya got into mountain biking
16:45- Learning that she could compete on a world stage
18:50- Some of Sonya’s travel stories from her races
27:35- Meeting her husband
33:45- Becoming a world champion
42:10- Tips and techniques for when a dark moment comes in a race
43:50- What she’s learned from when she’s quit a race
47:45- Her mindset when things get hard in a race
48:30- Finding motivation when on days that you don’t want to do the workout
56:50- The running challenges that she wants to take on
58:40- Camping tips
1:03:10- End of podcast questions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:17.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you're here today. |
| 0:25.0 | Today you're listening to episode 338 and |
| 0:28.0 | if you are local to Indianapolis I want to tell you about a 5K that's coming up |
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