How to develop mental toughness and breakthrough barriers
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How do you push through those inevitable thoughts during a race or tough workout that tell you to slow down or that "it's just too quick"?
On today's show we interview Gary Dudney, author of the Mindful Runner, about the techniques we can use to deal with pain when racing, push past it, and eliminate that doubt we all have.
This is a great episode if you've ever wanted to learn how to develop a tougher mindset when racing!
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | The mental side of running is under disgust. |
| 0:09.0 | You spend all our time thinking about our training |
| 0:12.0 | and how far we have to run on a particular day and how fast |
| 0:15.6 | and we don't spend much time thinking about what things that are happening in your |
| 0:20.1 | mind are either helping you or hindering you as you're running. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.0 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome. This is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, coach, and host for the Run to |
| 0:52.4 | the Top Podcast. We are now into the holiday season |
| 0:56.2 | and what could be a better gift for a runner than a book. Run to the top has been |
| 1:01.0 | and will continue to interview several authors including |
| 1:04.1 | Gretchen Littaker who talks about cannabis and magnesium, Holly Zimmerman who |
| 1:09.3 | talks about running across the Sahara, today's guest, |
| 1:13.0 | Gary Dudley, who writes about mindfulness |
| 1:15.6 | from a runner's perspective, |
| 1:17.4 | and upcoming will be Jeff Galloway and team, |
| 1:20.2 | covering health, women's specific, and longevity as they all relate to runners. |
| 1:24.9 | Keep listening as there is certainly a book for you or a special runner in the very content |
| 1:29.6 | that we are learning about right here on Run to the Top. Today's interview is with Gary |
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