s2/e35 How to Take Time Off & Keep Believing in Yourself with Kim Clark (@trackclubbabe)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Every runner will need to take time off at some point, whether a normal post-race recovery period, several weeks or months to deal with an injury or illness, or months+ (hello, baby!) for a variety of reasons. That's life! Don't freak out! How do you take time off, stage a comeback, and keep believing in yourself the whole way through? Kim Clark (@trackclubbabe) joins the show to talk about how to keep the faith and set yourself up for long-term success.
- Normalizing recovery!
- Taking recovery time is a NORMAL part of the training process
- What happens if you take a few days or a week off?
- When bigger interruptions happen
- How to deal with the emotions of being "less fit" than you were?
- Giving yourself permission to run as slow as you need to
- How do you keep believing that your fitness will return?
Kim discovered a love for running 10 years ago and loves to share the ups & downs of her journey on her instagram @trackclubbabe, while encouraging others to dream big. Her first marathon was a 6:08 and her fastest a 3:11-- and she shares all the training strategies for any runner to improve their running too! Kim & her husband Tyler (@tunderface, a 4:10 to a 2:18 marathoner) have created training programs made for any level of runner to find big improvement. Their program FAST FALL, a 12 week speed training program, was created off of what helped Kim to finally find her running breakthrough & has helped so many runners reach their big potential too.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:06.9 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers. |
| 0:15.2 | So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster runner. |
| 0:22.0 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:25.5 | So let's get started. |
| 0:28.5 | My guest this week is marathoner Kim Clark that are known as track club babe on the interwebs. |
| 0:35.4 | Now, one of the things that I admire most about Kim is not that she went |
| 0:39.9 | from running a 608 marathon to a 311 marathon over the course of her running career so far, |
| 0:45.2 | but that over the time that she has been running and not running, taking time off for a variety |
| 0:50.1 | of reasons and coming back is that she continues to believe in herself and have a relentless |
| 0:56.8 | positive outlook on the days that are yet to come no matter where she currently is in her |
| 1:02.2 | training journey so this conversation is about taking time off when how why you would or need |
| 1:08.2 | to take time off and then how to keep believing in yourself during the |
| 1:12.0 | entire process. Kim, welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you so much for |
| 1:17.2 | having me. I'm so pumped to be here. So you have to answer this question like all of my guests do, |
| 1:23.7 | but it's such an integral part of our conversation today. Kim, how did you become a runner? |
| 1:29.1 | So I became a runner. I've always wanted to be a runner. My dad was a runner and he, um, he ended up |
| 1:39.1 | having the world record for the marathon in his age group at one point because he ran three marathons |
| 1:47.3 | at 12 years old in Wisconsin many many years ago and so their town had a sign with his name on it |
| 1:52.8 | saying like world marathon record holder but so I was just like and I actually didn't know that |
| 1:58.0 | until just this last year but when I was a kid, he |
| 2:01.2 | told me, oh, I ran marathons. And so I would like wear his marathon shirts around. And in my mind, |
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