The Guilt Free Running Slump

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Several months ago, I announced my marathon comeback. My intention was to focus on the marathon distance for the first time since qualifying for Boston. Fast forward to today, and instead of being in week 8 of an intense training cycle, I'm hardly running at all. I'm officially in a slump. But you know what? I don't feel guilty about it. For the first time -- maybe ever -- I'm not beating myself up for failing at my original goal. I'm at peace with this lack of motivation and training. As it turns out, NMA Radio co-host Doug is dealing with his own running slump of sorts, only he's 1 week away from a 50k, and his training looks a lot different than mine. In today's episodes, we talk about those slumps, what we're dealing with, and how we're embracing the lack of motivation instead of fighting it.

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0:00.0	Hi this is
0:03.7	is Katie from Washington DC and you're left to no meat radio Hey everyone welcome to the one
0:17.0	welcome to the one hundred second episode of no meat athlete radio
0:21.0	Doug hey how are you doing today?
0:24.0	I am doing pretty well, I would say.
0:26.0	It's been a hectic week I'm headed to Vermont tomorrow for my good buddy's wedding.
0:32.0	Very nice.
0:33.0	And yeah, but I'm doing real.
0:35.0	Starting to feel like falling around here.
0:38.0	It is starting to feel like fall.
0:40.0	I've noticed that. Which is nice.
0:41.0	I'm a little bit excited about fall.
0:43.0	Yeah, it was one that I was going for around the other day above, kind of up in the mountains a little bit,
0:48.0	and all the trees were starting to turn already.
0:50.0	Mm-hmm. I noticed a leaf falling in front of my front door yesterday.
0:53.2	There you go.
0:54.2	Yeah.
0:55.2	So anyway, anyone who's listening at home might realize that we are not in person still because we
1:01.9	just, my living situation situation and this is not just a total tangent here because this sort of does go into a little bit what we want to talk about today which is kind of being in a training slump for both of us.
1:12.0	My living situation seems to just keep getting kind of being in a training slump for both of us.
1:13.0	My living situation seems to just keep getting worse
1:16.0	and it seems to...
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