Ep. 315 - When Everything Competes for Your Attention...Your Training Pays the Price!
About this episode
Meghan Gould discusses the mental challenges faced by a client training for 100 miles amidst various life pressures.
In this episode, I’m sharing a recent conversation with one of my 1:1 clients who’s training for 100 miles. She listed everything she’s juggling — work, family, aging parents, social media, world events, health concerns — and then said: “I just don’t know how I’m going to do it.” And that’s the point. Sometimes it’s not your fitness. It’s not your plan. It’s not your long run. It’s the mental load. When everything feels urgent and important, your attention gets split. And when your attention ...
People in this episode
Host: Meghan Gould
Guest: 1:1 client
Topics covered
- mental load
- training challenges
- work-life balance
- ultra running
- attention management
Keywords
- training
- mental load
- ultra running
- work-life balance
- attention
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