The Athletic Philosopher Podcast - Episode 30 The Race Result Exposed My Mental Weakness

Episode 30 was tough to record because I'm forced to open up about the REAL reason I failed to hit 100 miles last year at the 2024 Prairie on Fire Backyard Ultra. After months of reflection and rethinking logistics and strategies I came face to face with the real truth of why I decided to stop running after 21 hours and 87.5 miles.

A philosopher goes to the truth, and finds the courage to face it directly and learn from it. I hold nothing back in exposing a mindset gap that cost me a chance to hit the target I'd aimed at. 

I share this story to encourage you to sign up for a race, train hard towards it, and be courageous to learn honestly from the results no matter if they are good, bad, or neutral. That's how we can leverage the objective outcomes to create powerful subjective growth, the perfect harmony for competing in sports to grow and develop your character.