Re-Run with Deena Kastor

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m re-sharing a conversation that I had in 2018 with Deena Kastor, which we recorded at her kitchen table in Mammoth Lakes, California. I’m bringing this one back not only because I was in Mammoth Lakes this past weekend but because Deena just ran 2:45:12 at the Berlin Marathon—at the age of 49, no less!—to earn the Abbott World Marathon Majors Six Star Medal for completing all six Major marathons: Berlin, London, New York, Chicago, Boston, and Tokyo. I look back fondly at this chat from a few years ago, in which we covered a lot of topics, from the importance of surrounding yourself with a great team, both in running and in life, to using disappointment as a means to fuel the next big breakthrough. We also discussed how coach Joe Vigil influenced her and helped shape her life philosophy, how training for and racing cross-country “feeds her soul” and helps her become a better racer on the track and on the roads, and so much more.

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0:00.0	I really believe that running is such a great way to challenge us and to add that difficulty
0:14.3	to our life in a very controlled way so that we can deal with challenge and adversity.
0:19.9	And I love that.
0:20.9	I love getting to the crux of a workout.
0:23.0	I go out hard in races and workouts because I want to suffer early on so I can find ways
0:28.0	to get through it.
0:29.3	And to me it's always been a game, like just this playful pursuit of seeing how badly
0:34.5	I can hurt and then what tools I can learn to get through it.
0:38.3	When I can handle these challenges and running and continue working it, you know, it's
0:42.8	not like you have to keep practicing positivity and getting the best out of yourself that if
0:47.9	I can do that and running continuously, then when something shows up in life, I feel
0:52.3	like it's a breeze to get through it.
0:59.3	Hey, what's up everyone?
1:14.6	It's your host, Mario Freyoli.
1:16.4	I had an incredible conversation with Canadian mountain athlete, Adam Campbell, last Thursday
1:21.9	night at the inaugural mammoth trail fest that I had hoped to share with you here this
1:26.1	week.
1:27.1	But due to some recording issues at the venue, the audio is unusable, unfortunately, which
1:31.9	is a huge bummer.
1:34.0	I'm hoping that I can transcribe that conversation to text so that eventually you'll be able
1:38.5	to read it in the morning shakeout email newsletter, which if you're not subscribed to it yet,
1:43.2	get on that now at the morningshakeout.com slash subscribe.
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