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Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running

How to Distract Your Mind When it Tells You to Quit- Perry Newburn

Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running

RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog

Running, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.5936 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

If you think it's impossible to run 50+ miles day for weeks on end, our guest today is here to prove you wrong!

After overcoming a 16 year battle with heroin addiction, Perry Newburn is lucky to be alive. 

He realizes what running brings to our lives, and wanted to give back to the running community in the same way that he had been given a second chance. Perry became the king of long-distance running and he's run numerous marathons, ultra races, and challenges like running around the outside of both islands of New Zealand and running for 72 hours straight wit [...]

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Having a laugh, I think one of the other things too, which I've always learned and I suppose it goes back to recovering from the addiction days.

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Also, I'd learn to keep it simple.

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Welcome to the Runners Connect, run to the Top Podcast,

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where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in this board. So together we can

0:26.1

train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. Now here's your host, Tina Muir.

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Hello, this is Tina Muir.

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Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Ranners Connect

0:41.0

Rans the Top Podcast.

0:43.6

So last week we talked to Nancy Clark,

0:46.7

author of Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guide book,

0:50.4

which is actually considered by many

0:52.3

one of the best nutrition books of all time for runners anyway

0:56.3

Nancy shared her best advice with us and actually surprised me with some other things she said about the mistakes we make

1:02.1

If you missed it make sure you go back and

1:04.5

check that one out. So if you've been listening for a while, you will have heard some of the

1:09.1

guests I have had on, share their stories about how running saved their lives. And it's

1:14.4

incredible that something so simple can literally turn our life around. But in many

1:20.0

ways, if you think about it, running actually saves us all all in our day-to-day lives it gives

1:24.7

us that you know that moment of peace where our body and mind can just work together in

1:29.7

harmony we can process our thoughts and return to from our run with a clear mind ready to face whatever challenges we have going on.

1:38.0

Sometimes we try to give back to running or to the world of running as a thank you for all it has given us and that's exactly

1:46.0

what my guest today does. Running helped him to overcome a long battle with heroin addiction and since then he's run many incredible

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