{"id":14268,"date":"2011-06-07T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=14268"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:05:12","slug":"mental-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/mental-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychological Strategy I Used to Take 100 Minutes Off My Marathon Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey there! I just flew home from Portland, Oregon yesterday, after an energizing-yet-completely-exhausting weekend at Chris Guillebeau’s<\/a> World Domination Summit.\u00a0 I hung out with 499 amazing people for the weekend, talking about doing awesome work and about changing (okay, dominating) the world.<\/p>\n

(And enjoying really good<\/em> vegan food truck options everywhere I went.\u00a0 Yay, Portland!)<\/p>\n

While I was there, I put together a video that’s part of the lead-up to Half Marathon Roadmap<\/a>, which launches tomorrow.\u00a0 I sent the video out to people who are interested in half marathon training, but then I realized something — this video is about much more than that.<\/p>\n

It’s the exact psychological strategy — the headgame, if you will — that I used when I was training to qualify for Boston, which for me meant taking 100 minutes off my first marathon time.\u00a0 So if you’re trying to get yourself to Boston, you’ll like it.<\/p>\n

But even if not, I think it’s a great approach to any goal that seems really far off right now, or simply crazy or impossible or otherwise ridiculous.<\/p>\n

So that’s why I’m posting it on the blog.\u00a0 The only disclaimer is that the sound is REALLY quiet.\u00a0 I’m not sure how I screwed that up or how to fix it, so the best I can do is suggest that you use headphones.<\/p>\n