The Guilt Free Running Slump (Rewind)

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Every runner goes through slumps. Life gets busy, the weather gets hot (or cold), and whatever "running mojo" looks like to you, you've lost it. I'm no different, and I'm in the midst of a slump now: the training I had planned for a fall marathon never really got off the ground, and my running for the past few months has been next to non-existent. But something is different this time. This time, I don't feel guilty about it. Somehow (meditation, maybe?) I'm at peace with the slump. I'm not beating myself up for letting the marathon goal slip away. I can see this for what it is, without judgement, and in a strange way I feel free — with a newfound excitement about other types of training. As it turns out, co-host Doug is dealing with a running slump of his own. Except he's one week away from a 50K, and his training looks a lot different from mine. In today's episode, we talk about our slumps and how we're embracing the lack of motivation instead of fighting it. If you've been in a slump recently, or you're in one right now, this one is for you.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to No Made Athlette Radio.
0:02.6	This is co-host Doug riding solo today
0:06.0	as Matt is out, gallivanting around Europe with his wife.
0:10.7	Where I know he has at least one speaking gig,
0:12.4	but I think most of the trip is actually
0:14.7	him and his wife doing a little 10-year anniversary trip to Europe, which sounds pretty awesome.
0:21.5	Not at all jealous, I promise. But I am here at home in North Carolina keeping
0:28.2	this podcast going. We have a very fun replay for you guys today, it is guilt-free running slump and this is
0:34.4	one that I was particularly interested in picking out for a replay because I am
0:40.3	finally on the other side of a multi-month running slump where I just was really struggling
0:47.6	to keep up any sort of training and unable to stay motivated in the way that I normally am with running.
0:55.0	And when I hit that slump I was feeling super guilty about it.
0:59.0	But I had to learn to accept it because I just was not in the right head space to be training the way that
1:04.0	I would have ideally liked in this perfect world and you know what I think that's okay and that's
1:08.9	what we're going to be talking about in this episode so since it's just me and you know it seems weird to tell about my weekend and
1:15.3	weird stories without Matt here along with me let's just jump right into it
1:19.6	huge thanks to everyone who listens to us week after week.
1:23.0	And of course, thank you to everyone who is supporting us
1:26.2	with The Tribe, keeping this podcast ad free,
1:30.1	allowing us to pump out content week after week.
1:32.8	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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