Taren did his first race in 3.5 years. Are Ultrarunners Mentally Strong or Weak? Do you Need a Day off From Training?

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week on the podcast, we discuss Taren's first "race" in three and a half years. We dive into a study about endurance athletes and mental health issues. And we have a solid Q&A section, including how to modify training when you work a job where you're on your feet OR a job with crazy hours... and more!

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0:00.0	What's a Motivator is Taryn here with N.T.K. No Triathlon Kim. And Pidi. And Peedy. He's, uh,
0:08.6	he doesn't participate, but his vibes. He's a little tuckered today because you just, yeah, he's got
0:12.2	vibes. He's got good vibes. Good vibes. So big news. I raced. Yes, you did. I did a race.
0:19.8	It was something. It was a half hour race. I did a race. It was something.
0:21.0	It was a half hour race.
0:22.9	And that's it.
0:25.6	Yeah, first time I've raced since Challenge Daytona, Sprint Triathlon, 2019.
0:32.5	That was the last race that I did.
0:33.7	You won your age group in that race?
0:35.9	Did I?
0:36.4	I think I did.
0:37.1	Yeah, I think I, yeah, fourth overall won my age group, 1.0.4.30-ish, something like that.
0:45.1	And then the pandemic started and here we are.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:48.1	So what happened with that was pandemic started.
0:51.0	I was gearing up for Kona thinking I could maybe do like 910, 915,
0:58.1	qualify for Kona in my age group. And pandemic started. And in Canada, A, really, really hard to
1:06.7	actually get out of the country. So it was tough for me to go anywhere and actually take part in
1:15.5	races that were taking part around the world. And then B, there were no races in Canada. So
1:22.3	there weren't races for me to do for probably about 18 months or so.
1:30.6	And in that time, I was like, well, I got to work on something.
1:36.1	I'll start working really hard and seeing if this app that we had, which was called Team Trainiac at the time, can actually turn into something.
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