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The Running Explained Podcast

s1/e35 Runner's Burnout with Coach Jaci Wilson (@jaci.wilson.runs)

The Running Explained Podcast

Running Explained

Sports, Running

4.6534 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week, Jaci Wilson, is on the show to talk about BURNOUT, something that far too many of us experience at one point or another in our lives. Jaci is recovering from her own period of burnout and talks about understanding what burnout is, how to identify it, and how we can help prevent it. We also talk about how to create a healthy and sustainable relationship with running so that it adds to your life instead of takes away!

  • What is burnout?
  • Identifying the 12 stages of burnout 
  • How do we come back from burnout?
  • Creating a healthy & sustainable relationship with running
  • How do we fit in "all the things" we need for our training?
  • Mindful running
  • And more!

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Instagram: @jaci.wilson.runs

Website: jaciwilsonruns.com

Jaci Wilson is a self-taught runner turned run coach. She started running and ran her first half marathon in 2016, quickly learning the importance of not “just running.” After making some changes to her nutrition and strength training, she took 45min off her half marathon in 5 months and qualified for Boston in her first marathon 1.5 years later. Jaci uses the lessons she has learned through her struggles and different seasons of life to shorten the learning curve for other runners to see faster success. Jaci is an RRCA Certified Running Coach but really focuses on all the other aspects of running – nutrition, strength training, sleep, recovery, mindset work, mobility, self-care, etc. – what she refers to as “ALL THE THINGS.” Her passion lies in nutrition and raising awareness around the importance of female athletes in understanding how to work WITH their female physiology. Jaci believes running should fit INTO your life, that all running lessons can be applied to life, and that you can do ALL THE THINGS without it being time-consuming or overwhelming.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker.

0:08.2

When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my

0:14.6

own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make

0:19.9

you a better, smarter, faster, runner.

0:23.4

There's no question too simple and no topic too complex.

0:26.8

So let's get started.

0:28.6

My guest this week is Jackie Wilson, self-taught runner-turned run coach.

0:32.8

She is a running coach for what she calls all the things, the things other than running,

0:37.7

like nutrition, strength, training, sleep, recovery, mindset work, mobility, self-care,

0:42.5

the rest of it, the things we do to support our running that aren't actually the running

0:46.7

themselves.

0:47.5

The topic of our discussion today is burnout, which is different from overtraining.

0:57.3

Overtraining happens when you train more than you can recover, and there can be psychological aspects to it as well. Burnout is more of a psychological

1:03.7

condition, and it can be caused by running or can be caused by other things other than running

1:09.8

in your life, or it can be caused by just everything that is going in your life, or can be caused by just

1:11.5

everything that is going on in your life to contribute to signs, symptoms of burnout.

1:15.9

So, anecdotally, Jackie and I are both seeing more and more burnout amongst the runners that

1:22.1

we work with.

1:23.2

And so identifying what burnout looks like, hopefully in the early stages, can help prevent

1:29.4

runners from getting to those later stages of burnout when things get really serious.

1:33.7

Please enjoy this conversation.

1:35.4

I hope you learn something.

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