You can stand on the podium and have failed. And it’s not a failure if you learn from it.

Our goal is never to get good at suffering. Our goal is to suffer less under the same conditions, not to make running easier but to run with greater ease.

Today, we take a closer look at focus, which is the first of our core features of a high performance mindset. From focus with mindfulness, you can develop the other features of a high performance mindset: calm, confidence, optimism, and trust.

If you’re going to do something that’s difficult, like running ultra-marathons, it’s important to have a strategy. Inside of that strategy you have to develop and refine skills through deliberate practice. Train your mind, just like you train your body. In this installment, we create an overview of training the mind.

As we begin to dissect the three domains of training - mind, body, craft - start by answer Why and What. Then we can get to How we train.

Your answers are unique to you. This episode will give you definitions and guidance on answering Why and What for yourself.