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In my blog you’ll find pieces of my journey, reflections, lessons, and insights I hope you’ll carry with you.

Mental Training

Mental Training

How to Set New Goals and Achieve Them as Life Changes

In a perfect world, we would be able to continue improving our whole lives. Not just in running, but in everything; our personal development, our relationships, our compassion and love. All of it. Except life doesn’t happen that way, and actually, we probably wouldn’t want it to even if we…
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If you start off races confident, but find the negative thoughts overcome you quickly, Sports Psychologist Evie Serventi has the mental tactics you need.
Mental Training, Training Tips
If you start off races confident, but find the negative thoughts overcome you quickly, Sports Psychologist Evie Serventi has the mental tactics you need.

BONUS: Evie Serventi- If You Can’t Reassure Yourself, No One Can

Bonusode (is that even a word?) I am making it one! Today my dear friend and sports psychologist, Evie Serventi is here with us to talk about how to overcome the negative thoughts in a race once they start to flood in. If you are someone who goes into a race…
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Mental Training

Are You Obsessed With Your Goals? That is Why You Never Reach it

When I stepped away from running, I thought I would immediately lose respect of others. I thought the running world would no longer look up to me as an “expert”, that I would become a “has been” who no one would ever want advice from. Why would I want advice…
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Mental Training

12 Ways to Deal With Injury Depression

For many runners all over the US (and potentially the world), the Boston marathon is the pinnacle of their racing lives. Hitting a BQ is the ultimate goal. Although I have not raced the Boston Marathon (edit: I have now ran the Boston Marathon 🙂 ), when I achieved my…
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Mental Training

How to Guide: Visualization for Runners

Being back at the Raleigh Relays, a meet I cherished when I was in college, brought back lots of warm memories. I always loved this event, and it gave me a great opportunity to see not only how fast time has flown by, but how far I have come. It…
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Mental Training

How to Run By Feel Using the Effort Scale

We have all heard it; the running is 90 percent mental quote. Only 10 percent is actually about the training. Although we know deep down that the physical side of training is in fact more important than just 10%, we all know the point that quote is trying to make: The…
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Mental Training, Training Tips

When You Wonder Why You Can’t Run Fast Anymore

What is wrong with me? Why am I not getting faster even though I am trying so hard and doing everything I need to do? I have wondered this a lot over the past few weeks, and I am sure I am not alone. Running has never claimed to be…
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Mental Training

How to Get Over the Fear of Losing Your Fitness

A struggle very close to my heart, but yet again, a struggle that is never talked about in a real way. I am going through this right now, and it sucks. I don’t even have it that bad. Firstly, if you are in the situation where you had to have…
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Mental Training

Why It’s Okay to Admit You Are Struggling

Awhile back, it came to my mind that there was a wonderful story I wrote about a few years ago about this very thing, not speaking up. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of your competitiveness when you are just trying to enjoy a run or to even make the most…
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Mental Training

How Do You Make a Vision Board?

The new year is here and we are almost halfway through the month of January, but I think this is still a valuable exercise, and like my good friend Josh Trent said when I interviewed him, we should be focusing on habit change, not just New Years Resolutions. For that…
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