How to Use Your Setbacks to Reach Unexpected Highs- Ellie Greenwood
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode features Ellie Greenwood, one of the best ultrarunners in the world. Her crowning achievement has been to win theComrades Marathon in 2014, and she had a long and winding road up to that point.
Ellie is not a stranger to setbacks, as she spent much of 2013 recuperating from a string of injuries, but she’s been able to take it one step at a time to achieve her goals and extend her running distance little by little.
As you listen today, you’ll hear topics such as:
● How Ellie got started with running.
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| 0:00.0 | Again, lots of ultra runners tend to run on trail, but I say to people, right, if you're a |
| 0:05.8 | road runner and do one ultra, do comrades, and if you're an ultra runner that runs on trails, |
| 0:11.9 | do one road race and make it com rates. |
| 0:14.0 | Like it is the experience. |
| 0:16.0 | I mean most ultras, okay if you go to something like UTMB in Europe, they maybe have |
| 0:21.0 | like 2.5,000 half thousand three thousand people in |
| 0:23.6 | North America most altars maybe have 300 400 people you go to comrades and |
| 0:29.8 | there's 18,000 people running it. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top |
| 0:36.8 | podcast, where it's all about learning from the best and most |
| 0:40.6 | inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:43.0 | So together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, here's your host, Tina Muir. Hello, thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Ransill Top |
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| 1:08.0 | and about exercise and about carbs |
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| 1:15.0 | It was very science heavy, but he explained it in a way that made sense and it was just |
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| 1:20.7 | So if you've any kind of interest in nutrition or you have been |
| 1:23.5 | wondering about this low-carb high-fat thing then maybe it is time to go check that |
| 1:27.7 | out. But as to as for today do you remember when you ran your first race it might have been a 5k might be a 10k or maybe even you're |
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