Visualization and Leaping Out of Your Comfort Zone with Pam Reed
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2015
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Today is Pam Reed's 54th Birthday. She celebrated by going on a 20-mile run and joining The Nation. She has completed over 110 ultramarathons with a list of amazing accomplishments:
- First person to complete a 300-mile run without sleep (in slightly less than 80 hours)
- 2003 set the women's record for the USATF 24-hour track run
- Only woman to have won Badwater 135 outright (did it twice!)
- Author of the book, "The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultrarunning Greatness"
- Get the audio book for Free using the coupon code: TRNation at Audible
She recently finished The Arrowhead 135 that takes place in the coldest part of winter in the coldest city in the lower 48 states, Northern Minnesota). The average finish rate is less than 50%. She finished 15th overall and 2nd Female!
Pam joins The Nation to discuss how visualization has aided her to successfully completing over 110 ultramarathons. She discusses how to step outside your comfort zone and attempt something hard.
Check out her interview with David Letterman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Warren Paul. Hello Don Freeman and Scott Wall. What the heck? I saw you as online. You totally, you totally surprised me. |
| 0:12.0 | He didn't have any clothes doing this. We need to do a tailwind spot at the beginning of the podcast and I saw Warren Paul. I said, what the heck? You hear so fast. |
| 0:21.0 | Grab Warren. How are you doing my friend? We just finished a podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | No way. You look well relaxed there. I'm very good. I was just thinking about you guys as I was running through the park in Valencia this morning. |
| 0:33.0 | Beautiful. Beautiful. I should be recording. Wait a minute. I am recording. You're in California. |
| 0:38.0 | I wish. Wrong Valencia, sadly. The Spanish one. It's much cheaper for me to get to. Not for us. |
| 0:45.0 | Turn your video on Warren if you were videoed up. Hang on. Let me see if I can manage this. |
| 0:52.0 | Wonderful. What does it look like to access the cameras? Yes. Okay. There you go. Look at you in all your glory. Bearing it up and everything fuzzy fuzzy. |
| 1:04.0 | That might be that that might be the tip actually. Always what? How do you win? There you go. There's a better view. There's the balcony. |
| 1:12.0 | Grow the winter beard for you know beardiness. Maybe we'll do something about shorts. Who knows? You've caught me completely on the fly. |
| 1:18.0 | How do you how do you drink on an ultra run when you have a big hairy beard and not get it all over your face? |
| 1:26.0 | Absolutely not but actually possible. That's it. Or if you get dehydrated like I did today and you try and spit and it comes out like a piece of yoga that's still stuck to your lip. |
| 1:38.0 | You just end up with a splat all over your chest. It's really embarrassing. Are you recording this? Of course. Are you? |
| 1:48.0 | Thanks. Well Warren it's good to see you. We need to do a follow-up podcast. There must be some things that we can share in the near future about what's going on in your in Warren's world. |
| 1:59.0 | I think there's a huge amount we could share. There's the there's the zen of trail running. I've been getting into a little bit of meditation and things recently and a few things I've read about that. |
| 2:10.0 | It may realize that a lot of the golden moments we find during an ultra distance or a long distance trail runner are actually to do with bringing us into the present and the experience of truly being alive which is kind of what meditation has a bit going on but with a lot less running involved. |
| 2:27.0 | Let's get really weird with that if you like. Let's do not a drop bag or a grab bag. Let's do a C bag since you're across the pond there. |
| 2:37.0 | A C bag. That sounds dirty. In the Navy they have C bags. In the Marines we have C bags as well. So they're a bag that you packed for luggage called the C bag. That kind of C, S-E-A. |
| 2:49.0 | I was thinking C bag as well and I was thinking that's a sort of a mid trail moment bag. I know you guys. Hey, so let's do a one of those podcasts in the near future. A grab bag. |
| 3:04.0 | That would be wonderful. You can bring up your I'll bring up the C bag. You can bring up the zen of running. That would be a good discussion. |
| 3:15.0 | Okay, we need to record something. Okay, a tailwind tip. We got to get back to work. Yeah. |
| 3:20.0 | A tailwind tip. Warn nutrition tip of some kind. |
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