Hi this is Hope.

This is Kerem.

Hi this is Katie from Washington DC and you're a l'anome

Athlete Radio. Hey, Matt Frazier, and Doug He is here with episode 35 of No Meat Athlette radio and we've

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So today we want to talk about a big topic that comes up all the time that I'm actually

surprised we haven't yet addressed on the

podcast yet and that is the question of how do you stay motivated comes all the time by

email Twitter in person it's a big question and we have some answers for you.

Doug, are you motivated to do this?

Oh, I am so motivated to get this conversation started.

Great.

So I know you are because you are more easily motivated by running for its own sake than I am.

I definitely struggle with it more, have ups and downs, have periods where I get really into it,

often followed by periods where I'm really not into it and it takes every trick in the book to try to get me out there.

So I think it'll be a good conversation. We both have different viewpoints here and I'm looking forward to hopefully having some of your constant motivation rub off on me actually

We'll see

All right so we talked a little bit about this, and there are kind of two areas where this conversation will go.

The first is kind of with goals and figuring out why you're running, changing your entire reason for running such as signing up for a big race or having a new

commitment to running. And the second one is more of a band-aid approach.

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