Episode 547: Sabrina Little – The Examined Runner, Why Good People Make Better Runners
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SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, my guest is Sabrina Little. Sabrina is a five time national champion. She’s a mom, she’s a professor of philosophy, she’s a trail and ultra runner, a world silver medalist and the author of the book, The Examined Runner.
This is Sabrina’s second time on the podcast! If you want to hear a little bit more about her backstory, she was episode 346 of this podcast in November of 2021, where we talked about philosophy, running and motherhood. Today we catch up on what’s going on in her life. She’s now the mom of two. When we first talked, I think she was fresh off her first baby. Since then she’s written the book The Examined Runner, Why Good People Make Better Runners, is a deep dive into the conversation of how striving to be a better person make you a better runner. It’s a really great book and I loved reading it. She looks at key ideas and virtue ethics. It is one of those books where you underline, you take notes, you read it little by little and really try to understand it. And in this conversation, I loved getting inside Sabrina’s brain a little bit more.
What we talked about:
2:50- Catching up with Sabrina
6:30- Where running is fitting into her life right now
10:50- The process of writing The Examined Runner
15:00- Working on our “character flaws”
21:50- Happy feelings aren’t always the goal
24:50- Finding purpose
32:25- Envy
33:40- Coaching and combining her philosophy knowledge with coaching
38:05- Prioritizing where you spend your time
53:10- Last message to pull away from her book
Show notes:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody welcome to all have |
| 0:20.8 | I'm your host Lindsay. Thanks so much for |
| 0:25.2 | joining us today. Today my guest is Sabrina Little. |
| 0:28.8 | Sabrina is a five-time national champion. She's a mom. She's a professor of philosophy. time |
| 0:35.0 | and she's a mom, she's a professor of philosophy, she's a trail and ultra runner, a world silver medalist, |
| 0:39.0 | and the author of the book The Examined Runner. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Sabrina's second time on the podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | If you want to hear a little bit more about her backstory, |
| 0:49.3 | she was episode 3 46 of this podcast in November of 2021, where we talked about philosophy, running, and |
| 0:56.7 | motherhood. |
| 0:57.7 | Today we catch up on what's going on in her life. |
| 1:00.4 | She's now the mom of two. |
| 1:02.3 | When we first talk, I think she was fresh off her first baby. |
| 1:06.0 | And since then she's written the book, The Examined Runner, which I of course was excited to read. |
| 1:12.0 | I love to read if you know anything about me, you probably |
| 1:15.7 | know that. And her book, The Examined Runner Why Good People Make Better Runners is a deep dive into the conversation of can striving to be a better |
| 1:26.7 | person make me a better runner. It's a really good book she looks at key |
| 1:31.5 | ideas in virtue ethics and listen this is a |
| 1:35.1 | slow burn you don't read it all in one sitting you take it in you underline you take |
| 1:40.8 | notes you read it little by little and really try to understand it and in this |
| 1:44.7 | conversation I loved getting inside Sabrina's brain a little bit more. |
| 1:49.3 | If you are enjoying this podcast please consider leaving us a five-star rating interview on iTunes |
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