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#355: Dean Karnazes on Ultra Running, Embracing The Suck and Silencing The Voice That Tells You To Quit!
#355: Dean Karnazes on Ultra Running, Embracing The Suck and Silencing The Voice That Tells You To Quit!
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47 minutes
Released:
Nov 15, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Dean is an Athlete and a legend in the sport of ultrarunning. He is also a two-time New York Times bestselling author and the author or the great new book A Runner’s High. Dean was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for pushing his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole. His list of competitive achievements includes winning the World’s Toughest Footrace, the Badwater Ultramarathon, and winning the 4 Deserts Challenge, racing in the hottest, driest, windiest and coldest places on earth. This is our round 2 of the podcast, Dean also appeared on episode 182: Getting Comfortable Being Unconformable in 2018. In today’s show we talk all things ultra-running and mindset for this long overdue episode. Here are some of the things we talked about: Developing the mindset of embracing the suck and silencing the voice that tells you to quit Why you are the sum totals of all your habits and how to create new ones Why endurance never sleeps and running an ultra is simple, all you have to do is not stop The importance of mindset growing pains – until you go over the edge, you don’t know how far the edge is Why the struggle aftermath is important– “that is is most difficult to endure is the most satisfying to reminisce” Using forward projection to avoid quitting when things get really hard The game changing advice Dean offered me when I first got into ultra-running And much more Books A RUNNERS HIGH https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062955500/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062955500&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=252d4b253b1a1b91081199045e5cde61&tag=ultramarathon-20 ULTRAMARATHON MAN https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QNVPHW/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001QNVPHW&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=123d43bfed91b13307313b24e948644f&tag=ultramarathon-20 50/50 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446581844/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446581844&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=bd2dfd81ec6ec21751fb006b9493afa3&tag=ultramarathon-20 RUN! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609613813/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1609613813&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=4b36923f3b1301caceb548bda2ca2e4d&tag=ultramarathon-20 THE ROAD TO SPARTA https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DVF12V2/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00DVF12V2&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=7ee1e0610fa9dbb4b91e2ff33f4a97b4&tag=ultramarathon-20 Social links https://www.facebook.com/DeanKarnazes https://twitter.com/DeanKarnazes https://www.instagram.com/ultramarathon/ Website https://ultramarathonman.com/
Released:
Nov 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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