Robert Jackson: Put Your Goals Out There - R4R 407
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Many people attempt to qualify for the Boston Marathon for years before they succeed, and many more never achieve that goal. Robert Jackson BQ’d with his first marathon, and this year he not only ran the iconic race for the third time, but was one of the panelists on a Black Unicorn live podcast at the Expo. Now he has his sights set on the 2028 Olympic Trials, but that’s not the only challenge he’s taking on; he’s also determined to overcome an eating disorder.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running For Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:15.0 | Together we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run |
| 0:20.0 | and discover ways it helps us become better people. |
| 0:23.0 | Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the rest of the world still sleeps, |
| 0:28.0 | or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race, |
| 0:31.0 | we are here to connect with others who see running as the common |
| 0:34.8 | thread that leaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people |
| 0:39.8 | from all walks of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello my friends all welcome to episode |
| 0:49.4 | of 107 of the Running for Real podcast thank you joining me today. I'm excited that you are here and excited to introduce you to my guest for today. |
| 0:59.0 | Now Robert Jackson is yet another of the people that my friend Sydney Baptista recommended as someone he was inspired by. |
| 1:07.2 | And this episode is really raw and vulnerable and I say that as maybe even a warning for those of you who are struggling with |
| 1:17.6 | your eating you are someone who is deep in recovery this might be an episode you |
| 1:22.2 | want to hold back on or have someone |
| 1:23.4 | listen to you first. But if that does not apply for you or if you feel confident that that is, |
| 1:29.6 | I've given you the warning and you want to go ahead anyway, this episode is very real and raw. I really admire Robert for not only the improvement that he has shown and the way that he has handled some really tough moments like his mother |
| 1:45.8 | passing away and trying to find his way as a black man in a very white space often |
| 1:51.5 | which is often the case he He also talks about being a |
| 1:54.7 | family man having three kids having his wife and his family being most important |
| 1:59.1 | how do you get the training in? But beyond that we also talk about the lack of perfection, how both of us |
| 2:04.8 | struggle with perfection. So I think this episode goes very deep and I think it's one |
| 2:11.5 | that you're going to find really refreshing because I just admire and appreciate the way he was able to open up and that takes so much courage and when you have that courage |
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