Training Tuesday #25: Are You Mentally Tough Enough to Race?

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Running, Sports:running, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Sports

4.9 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Races are almost a foreign concept at this point in time! It's been months since most people have toed the startline. Are you feeling mentally unprepared for the demands of race day? Mental toughness is a perishable skill - if you don't use it you lose it! Today, we talk about using it: how to schedule these days, what the workouts should look like, and our favorite "turn yourself inside out" sessions.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the running public.
0:13.2	From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.
0:16.5	Get to the finish line faster.
0:18.3	That's right.
0:19.0	This podcast is for you guys, the running public.
0:28.5	This is the running public's Training Tuesday. Training Tuesday is where we talk about training
0:34.6	only. One topic, we dive deep deep we explore it completely it's training
0:39.0	it's tuesday training tuesday tuesday tuesday you ever uh you ever play around with
0:46.7	this is totally prepared here do you ever play around with deodorant versus not wearing deodorant
0:52.6	all the time i go back and forth constantly.
0:55.0	Okay. So the only time I don't is when I forget or it's not convenient.
0:59.6	Like I go to do a morning workout and I realize my deodorant's upstairs and I don't want
1:03.0	to wake anyone up.
1:04.5	And a lot of the time I realize I make it much longer in the day before I start to smell in
1:09.0	my armpits. Sometimes the deodorant smell itself gets twisted and it becomes its own ripe scent.
1:15.5	So today I was like, you know what?
1:17.3	I'm going to go no deodorant because yesterday my armpits didn't smell at all.
1:20.7	And I made it to like 9.30 and I noticed myself.
1:23.9	This morning?
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:25.6	That's bad.
1:26.5	I made it three hours.
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