How to Take On Your First Trail Race / TRAIL
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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How do you find the motivation to start your first trail race? Tune-in to hear professional, ultra-racer Mike Wardian (@mikewardian) tackle this question. Mike has set world records for the fastest time for 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, and has also completed some of the most difficult races in the world like the Badwater Ultra.
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| 0:00.0 | that's the biggest thing that I could give to people as a bit of guidance is get something on your radar or your calendar that is a huge motivation, like something that is really powerful and personal to you. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Spartan Trail on Spartan Up with your host Maori Paliachi. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, I'm Mori Paliachi. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the second episode of The Spartan Trail section on the Spartan Up |
| 0:31.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | We're back with Mike |
| 0:33.3 | Gordon who's still had a lot of stories around to to tell and in this |
| 0:37.7 | episode he's going to tell you some tips of how to get motivated also in |
| 0:41.2 | these harsh days. Take a listen and yeah, we hope to hear a feedback. |
| 0:47.4 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you |
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| 1:01.2 | I want to talk about motivation. Motivation these days is crazy like there's it's |
| 1:07.3 | hard to get not many races going around like not like probably somebody was looking for an international travel or something and |
| 1:16.5 | just getting out of your door is getting complicated at this time. |
| 1:21.3 | I would like to know what's your tip, like, how do you get motivated every day? |
| 1:26.7 | Like you go out and run, go do something and you have a full-time job, you have a family that's, |
| 1:32.3 | people can relate to that I'm sure like |
| 1:34.0 | there's a lot of people in the same situation as you probably not running as fast but |
| 1:38.0 | that doesn't matter it's the same sport still so I would love to hear what's your your extra tip like what's your extra thing you do for for getting out of the door every day |
| 1:50.4 | Yeah, I mean I think that that's a that's a big challenge for all of us now, right? I mean, I think, yeah, the restrictions that are in place around the world, the constraints that we have, you know, not just in our communities, but in our |
| 2:07.2 | countries and the restrictions on everyone is tough and it gets really challenging I think for people |
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