45. From Stretch Goals to Finish Lines: Goal Setting, Marketing Growth & Marathon Mindset with Hannah
In this episode of Psychologically Speaking, Leila talks with marketer, community-builder and marathon-in-training Hannah Isted, about her 2026 goals.
Together, they explore how ambitious stretch goals like scaling a marketing membership and finishing the London Marathon in a faster time, require the same core ingredients: consistency, accountability, community, and strategic planning.
This conversation blends the worlds of business growth, running, and mindset coaching, showing how transferable skills like contingency planning, habit building, and overcoming self-sabotage can fuel both entrepreneurial success and marathon training.
Hannah shares the motivation behind her bold business goals, the momentum built over four years of consistent work, and the commitment to focusing solely on membership growth. She also talks about how a strong community, from her business audience to her running partners, keeps her accountable and inspired.
Switching gears into marathon training, Leila and Hannah explore the running mindset, the role of audiobooks and podcasts in staying motivated, the importance of “time on feet,” and why you don’t need to reinvent the wheel in training. They discuss everything from speed work, consistency, and progress tracking to the quiet ways self-sabotage can creep into big goals.
Whether you're an entrepreneur scaling a community, a runner training for a marathon, or someone trying to build better habits in your everyday life, this episode is full of practical insights, inspiring stories, and grounded strategies.
Transcript
Hi, I'm Leila Ainge, psychologist and researcher.
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:Welcome back to Psychologically Speaking, a podcast all about human behavior, bringing
together fascinating research, insights and real life experiences.
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:This season, we're exploring goals with guests and we'll be following them into the new
year to see how their beliefs, behaviors and actions shape those intentions.
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:My next guest, Hannah, has been on the podcast before.
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:Hannah runs a community built around 10 minute marketing tasks.
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:And the last time she was on, she told us how often people describe it as weird to do
something so fast.
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:She is a self-confessed under thinker.
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:Hannah's reframe around marketing is refreshingly direct and simple.
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:So can we expect the same from her approach to goal setting?
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:Let's find out.
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:Welcome back, Hannah.
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:Thank you so much for having me again.
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:I'm so excited to be here.
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:we loved having you on last time and I got loads of comments about your episode where
people go, I definitely overthink and it was really nice to hear somebody say, just post
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:it.
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:I'm asking everybody this season about their goals for next year.
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:Are you thinking of a goal or a resolution?
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:Goals?
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:I think I've got two goals and yeah, they feel yeah, they definitely feel like goals not
resolutions.
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:Okay well let's dive in which one do want to talk about first?
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:Well, I'd say I've got two.
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:One, I don't think I can achieve and one I think is a stretch, but maybe I could achieve.
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:So which one do you want first?
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:Shall we go for the one that is a stretch that you think you can achieve and then we'll
spend more time on the other one?
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:Okay, nice.
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:So the one that I think is a stretch is business goal.
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:And I want to get 300 members in the best 90 days ever in my marketing membership.
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:So I've got 170 at the moment.
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:So that is why it feels like a stretch because it's almost double that, which to me means
I'm probably gonna have to double my audience growth and things like that.
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:But
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:I wanted to get 200 and I just thought, well why don't I just add another 100 on and see
what happens.
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:Why not?
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:Yeah.
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:Okay, so how long did it take you to build your current audience?
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:So it's been going for four years now.
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:So it's taken me four years to get to 170.
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:So I want to do that again in a year.
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:But what you've got on your side this time is you've got all of the knowledge of what
works and you can cut out any faff around anything that didn't serve you and didn't work.
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:So what's your strategy?
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:What have you learned that you're thinking, this is definitely gonna help me get to that
300?
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:So my kind of rough idea is that next year, I say this and I don't, this is what I don't
know if I can actually do, but like, I would like to not really launch anything new.
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:No, I will launch new things.
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:I'm sure I know that of myself, but like, I would like a year that is focused on the
membership.
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:So I would like a year where I just give it everything.
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:And that doesn't mean I don't give it everything now because I do, but.
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:I have other things and you know over the last couple of years I've done the retreat which
you came on and things like that which I've loved doing but I just wonder if I just had a
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:year of membership building what that would look like and I have I've booked a call with
someone who is like a membership specialist and membership expert who is going to help me
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:with that I think they call like a membership strategist so
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:Yeah, I just think if I can do that, what would happen basically?
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:And what's the motivation behind growing it?
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:I think it would be wrong of me to not say money.
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:Like obviously there is the income, it's a reoccurring income for me and it is there every
month.
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:So that is really nice.
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:But I love bringing people together.
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:I love having that community.
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:And I think one of the things I've realised over the last couple of years is that that's
where I thrive and I'm really good at that group setting rather than the one to one
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:coaching.
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:So yeah, I think knowing that I would thrive in that kind of position is also one of the
motivations as well.
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:So what I'm hearing here is it fills two needs and values.
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:One is that need to bring people together and the value you get from that and it's warm
and energy giving thing for you.
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:And the second thing is the need to make money and be profitable because that's why we're
all doing what we're doing.
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:So that sounds amazing and also you are going to scaffold that goal with the right
expertise.
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:You're not doing this on your own.
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:You've learnt and failed and learnt and failed on your own to get to 170 so you've got a
good feeling around what things work.
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:You've got your own evidence base but then you're also going out to an expert as well.
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:So you're sharing this, em the mental load of building that as well with somebody else.
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:That's a really smart strategy.
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:Yeah, that is really true, actually.
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:And knowing they would have that specific knowledge as well of the things that have worked
and the things that don't quite work.
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:And I think the other thing that I probably have on my side with this is the momentum of
the four years.
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:So I have been promoting it, you know, every day for the last four years, and I've been
talking about it and growing it.
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:And like, is that thing of, you know, when a plane takes off, it takes loads of energy,
but when it's flying, I mean, I'm sure it still takes loads of energy, but, know,
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:I'm now, I think it will be slightly easier potentially because now some of the
opportunities that I was really trying to get will be coming to me because I've built that
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:audience and that hopefully like that reputation and credibility and things.
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:yeah, I think now I have that behind me.
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:Getting those opportunities for growth will be slightly easier.
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:That's what I'm hoping.
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:That's what I'm telling myself.
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:Well, I think it's great to tell yourself that and you know, I've got this image of a
bird, like kind of um sauntering, you know, through the wind, you know, they have to get
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:all that energy out there and you're using that tailwind that you've created at MacBenton
to keep going.
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:The exciting thing for me here is that, you know, you've got that social proof, but a lot
of people who were setting goals and people who've come onto the podcast so far,
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:are talking about the fact that they feel they need to get to the point that you're at
before they can grow.
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:So we're now going to be able to follow somebody who's done all of that work and is now
going, now's the time.
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:This is where I'm going with it.
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:So I'm really excited to see that.
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:So how are you going to chunk this goal up?
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:Because is this by this time next year?
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:yeah, I think by the end of the year.
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:And my so it obviously starts every 90 days.
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:So the next one is the first of January.
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:So I would like to, I think I would like that the next January one, I would be looking at
300 members, because that is my biggest one, because people set goals and do this kind of
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:So I think that January one
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:will be my biggest one that I've ever had.
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:So it's almost building that up to the year.
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:But I suppose the way that it kind of naturally chunks down is that it is because it is
every 90 days, every 90 days I do a launch, every 90 days I can see what's happening.
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:I can use that data and the information.
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:So yeah, looking at each of those chunks individually, I think will be really helpful.
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:And if you put any thoughts into it, because I'm just thinking about your model in
particular, because you not only have people who enroll every 90 days, but you've got
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:people who are almost like a yearly member as well, don't you?
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:So are you thinking about having a mix?
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:What kind of mix your 300 members sit in?
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:Some of them are, you know, for the year, some of them, like, it's that retention, isn't
it, I suppose, will be important.
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:Yeah, I think either I'm happy like obviously I'm happy with either of them.
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:Obviously when they join for a year, it's nice because we kind of both know that they're
in there for a year.
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:So I can almost like I hear myself saying, oh, you know, we'll look at that next month,
knowing that they're already going to be there the next month.
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:Whereas when they're only there for 90 days, sometimes they might not stay, they might
skip around and come back and things like that.
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:But when they're there for the year, we both know.
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:They're locked in for a year and we are going to work on their goals for a year together.
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:So that is a really nice feeling, I think, for both of us.
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:So this sounds like you've got good support around it, you've got an idea of how you're
going to measure it, you've got a mechanism to get it underway.
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:It feels like what I would call a focus goal.
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:So it's just, it's like this unilateral focus for next year.
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:And what you've also described right at the start is this idea of this being that focus
and letting other things fall.
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:As in, you're not going to go to them, you're going to let them come to you through this
focus.
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:So that is a shift, isn't it?
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:Yeah, definitely.
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:It'll be really interesting to see how that actually pans out across the year, because I
do get shiny object syndrome and I know I will be tempted, but I've kind of tested it for
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:this part of the year and I've said to myself, no, I'm not doing anything new this year,
like this for these last few months of the year.
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:So I'm just kind of testing the water with this and it feels really nice.
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:So I can imagine it will feel nice for the rest of the year as well.
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:I love that.
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:Are there any challenges or potential humps in the road that you're now sitting and
thinking and going, yeah, I am worried about that.
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:Or do you think you've covered them
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:I think it would be if anything unexpected happens.
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:I don't know.
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:I don't know what, like how I would adapt to that because the membership is is very much
like me.
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:And a lot of it is in my head and this stuff that I deliver.
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:So if anything unexpected happens, which hopefully it won't touch wood, but
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:I would need to quickly adapt to that because I don't have a contingency in place.
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:yeah, that is some that's something that I think about all the time anyway, to be honest.
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:So I do have, you know, systems and things set up.
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:It will always continue.
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:But yeah, it's just thinking about making sure the things that are in my head are also
written down somewhere as well.
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:That's really interesting.
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:I have these conversations more with other coaches when they come through supervision and
as a coach, a lot of your work is delivered by a single individual yourself.
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:And coaches get around that a little bit by sometimes having arrangements like fallback
arrangements.
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:Our freelance type of way of working or contracts allow us to substitute a lot of the
time.
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:So in terms of thinking,
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:It might be low risk that something happens next year and touch wood you.
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:We don't want anything to happen next week, but in terms of the impact on your business,
that's where you put the contingency in, which is, how do I offset the big impact of me
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:not being there because I am the face of my business and who would be a person or
individual who I could call in a time of emergency to support for a day or two days.
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:They're the types of conversations that are quite helpful because you don't have to have a
foolproof system, you just have to have a bit of an idea about where you go next.
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:Yeah, that makes sense actually.
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:And I do feel like I could do with that anyway, you know, even not just related
specifically to the membership, just having that as a business, a business thing that is
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:So yeah, that does make a lot of sense.
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:Cool.
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:Well, I have complete faith that you're going to smash this because I feel like you just
really, you're my kind of like pinup person for goal setting because you kind of set your
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:goals, you go off and you do it.
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:And you're the person I look to when I'm thinking, right, I need to get some energy and
momentum back in my own business.
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:not to Hannah Ripps too.
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:You're very inspiring in that respect.
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:I think you're quite consistent, which is, I think that's probably why you're really good
at the community building.
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:So tell me about the one that you're more nervous about and why is that?
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:I think you'll like this one.
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:So I have a place for London Marathon next year.
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:And that is crazy.
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:So yeah, I did Manchester Marathon a few years ago, and I did it in five hours, 42.
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:And I would like to do a sub five hour marathon.
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:totally doable.
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:Well, yeah, and I've downloaded one of those apps and when I put in all like my half
marathon time and things like that, it came back and said 444 or something like that.
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:So the app was very confident that I would do it in that time.
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:The thing for me is that I don't, I find the training for a marathon very boring and long
and I um consider myself to be a slow runner.
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:I just think factually I'm much slower than Tom is, for example.
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:I don't really have an issue with being slow.
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:But my issue is that running for hours, sorry, running for five hours, 42 minutes is a
really long time.
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:I just don't want to be running for that long again this time.
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:wow, so this is so exciting.
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:As you know, I love running.
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:I know I'm actually doing a run next year and I've got to get my arse into gear with my
own training plan.
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:So I'm what I class as a slow runner and my fastest marathon was five and a half hours.
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:My slowest was six and a half and that was worse because obviously you went...
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:you're on your feet a long time and it's quite lonely.
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:To speak to that em kind of loneliness and the monotonous of the training and for anyone
who's listening who's not run a marathon, your training happens in the most brutal months
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:of the year and it is cold, it is icy, it's dark, it's wet, you know, we're not talking
about, you know, lacing up, going out and getting some Insta-worthy photos of yourself
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:running or anything.
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:It is shockingly, you know, kind of mind-numbingly awful, but that is part of the method
in the madness because it allows you to prepare mentally, doesn't it, for that marathon?
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:I'm intrigued because I think there's a little opportunity for you, particularly around
your training that you can really leverage, but what thoughts have you had around making
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:So I actually do prefer running in the winter.
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:I don't I'm I cannot run in summer when it's hot.
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:I just yeah, I'm instantly out.
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:So I do prefer this time obviously I'd rather not run in the pouring rain and things like
that.
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:But so my next door neighbor Ben, he is running the Barry Island 10k and he's doing
Cardiff half in October.
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:and he's downloaded the same app as me.
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:So we, and we've got a very similar pace.
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:So we have been running together and that I think is going to be a game changer for this
one because you know, we did like 7K the other day and we just went out and came back and
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:we were like, whoa, that just went so quickly.
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:I would like to use the time to like listen to some audiobooks that I haven't got around
to listening to yet.
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:You know, listening to those podcasts that are always on my list, just like almost having
a bit of time to think and I don't know what the right phrase is, but like absorb some
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:That would be good.
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:So there's this really interesting idea that obviously running can get us into a state of
flow and a flow state for someone like you might be that, you know, ideas, you're an ideas
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:person, you know, that content generation being able to listen to something and then
you're in a flow state and you're thinking it through.
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:And the thing that immediately pops to mind for me is why don't you make this so fun that
you set yourself a challenge to have so many content ideas per run or something and that,
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:you know, you do something different each month to, to like kind of bring that up, but you
really like challenges.
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:That's something that you talk about.
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:It's something that you promote with your people in your community.
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:So how do you.
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:break this down and make it challenging on an individual level.
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:Running with somebody else is perfect and I think you need a combination don't you when
you're doing a running goal of that accountability.
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:But how do you make it fun?
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:And actually that reminded me that I saw someone do a post earlier on and they basically
have had like a theme for each of their months over the year.
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:And that would be fun to even just think each month I had a theme of things I was going to
be thinking about while I was on those runs because obviously I've got till the end of
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:I love that, thinking of as many content ideas, because I'm always talking to my
headphones.
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:I won't say the word that I say to my headphones because it will set everyone else's off.
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:So part of that goal setting and strategy is around enjoying the time on your feet because
evidence shows time on feet is probably the single most thing that is going to reduce your
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what do you know about the science of reducing your marathon time?
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:What else do you think there is there that's going to help you?
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:So when you just said that, did make me think that I would like to sit down and research
this, almost take this on as a project for myself and be like, what is going to help me
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:But interestingly, since I've downloaded this app that gives you the running plan, it's
given me speed work to do, which I didn't do last time and I've never done before.
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:I'm quite excited about that because obviously the novelty of it like it's brand new for
me and it's something different I want to try but I know that that it's almost like that
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bit of a game changer because I have never done that before.
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:So that's something else that's really interesting because the variety that comes into the
marathon training is really key.
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:So we focus a lot of our energy on getting our long runs in each week because they're
usually the hardest around business, work, family life and dogs or whatever to fit in is
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:getting out for maybe four or five hours for your long runs or whatever, your training
runs every weekend.
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:So we tend to overly focus on those and then people shortcut the speed work and the
shorter hits kind of stuff and also strength work.
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:So I'm now going to come to another part of your messaging which is really useful here and
to ask you to just explain to my listeners what you say about good housekeeping every
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:I did a reel this well recently about how it is a scam because it it just talks about the
same things every single year and yet we continue to buy it.
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:I continue to buy every single year and it will always have like celebrity gossip and you
know how to cook your turkey how to cook your potatoes.
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:I love it so much, but it is repetitive and yeah, it's it follows a structure that works
and you don't need to start like stray from that structure when you know that it works.
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World?
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:You get your summer issues, you get the issue where they tell you all about the new shoes
that have come out every September.
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:And you can go to a car boot sale, because I you love a car boot, and get an old copy with
the marathon training plan in.
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:And it is going to be, that is your research, because that gives you.
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:the tried and tested methods, but also podcasts where people talk about their marathon
training journeys, they all talk about very similar things.
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:I think unless you're looking at an elite sub three marathon, the stuff that generally
works is going to generally work for you.
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:So that's something really helpful.
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:And it's just remembering we don't have to reinvent the wheel.
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:And this is your...
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:How can I under think this?
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:Well, you know, that research looks like not a lot of trouble really.
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:It's going to picking up magazine with a marathon training plan in it.
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:And actually, uh obviously, as I'm talking about this, and I've mentioned it to my dad and
things like that.
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:So my TikTok is now picking up everything that I'm saying and feeding me TikToks about it.
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:And I've had TikToks of girls who like look like a similar age to me, similar height to
me, because I think that is one of like the reasons I do find it tougher.
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:And they have massively reduced their marathon times.
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:And I'm seeing the evidence of it that it is possible.
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:And just becoming that person like the embodiment of it.
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:And I think that's kind of the challenge of it too.
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:That's more of a mindset thing, isn't it?
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:It sounds like that is a, do I believe that I am this runner that can run the, what is it,
four hours 30, you're looking for something around that time.
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:I?
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:You know, what does a typical runner look like?
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:And I think the running community is one of these amazing spaces where we see all shapes
and sizes at park runs and at marathons.
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:And like you, I really find other women inspiring.
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:One of my greatest kind of inspirational women to follow is a woman called Susie Chan.
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:And she started running, I think in her late thirties, and she's gone on to do ultra
marathons and you know, she's broken a world record on a treadmill for the longest
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:mean, it does.
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:I've listened to, in fact, I listened to her podcast, her audiobook a few months ago
because I had a tricky time with running after COVID and couldn't get back into it.
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:And I have taken on a big challenge next year with my best friend to go and run a
70-mileer in one go.
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:Very slow, it's like a long buffet, Hannah.
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:So I go, we do a little bit of running, a little bit of walking up hills and quite a lot
of snacking.
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:So that's how my approach to.
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:So, and I find her really inspiring.
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:So there's a couple of things here, isn't there?
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:There's the one, what's the tried and tested formulas?
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:Who's your community?
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:Because I mean, that's something you have for yourself and for your business, but who is
your running community?
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:And that might be slightly different.
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:There might even be people in your own community.
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:There might be people a bit further out.
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:And then there's that other thing such as what.
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:do I do that's different to just doing it the way I trained before, which is the long runs
and it sounds like you've got some ideas around that as well.
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:Yeah, yeah, I think they're the main things and I and also last time, so my dad's always
said to me, you need to go and join a running club.
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:And I did last time.
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:And basically, we went on a long run and they left me and someone else behind at the end
and we didn't know the route.
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:So we kind of like managed to find our way back, but we didn't do the full run and like it
just left a really bad taste in my mouth.
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:And that has really, like soured the view.
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:not of running clubs in general, I know there are good ones, but of me being part of a
running club.
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:And I do think it's probably time for me to get over that and to find one that I do feel
I'm part of and there's people who are going at a similar speed to me and things like
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:Because I do think that will be a good way to get those long distance runs in and have
that community.
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:How do you find that perfect group for you?
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:I don't know, I just probably social media.
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:I think I will look to social media and yeah, I'm gonna have a look at the different ones
that there are.
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:There are loads around like Cardiff and Barry.
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:So it's just finding the one that I think is a good fit.
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:And I think it's really interesting.
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:You know, if we're thinking about gyms, we'll go and visit maybe one or two different gyms
and we have a good look around.
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:And then it strikes me that with things like running clubs, we'll go to one.
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:If we don't enjoy it, we kind of go, that doesn't work for me.
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:And it does need to be a of a try before you buy.
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:It might be similar to things like car boots, where there are certain car boots which have
got a different vibe to others.
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:maybe it's just, maybe the research is actually around those communities rather than the
method.
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:And it's a great time of year because I think quite a lot of groups now will have their
Couch to 5k groups starting in January.
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you're a slower runner because there are slower runners in those groups that you can then
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:you know what that's actually really interesting because that just made me think that when
I did Cardiff Half in October this year I don't know if it's me or someone else I run a
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200 of us in there and two of us did Cardiff Half marathon and we went on a training run
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running you know I'm doing this run so I've got 200 gals
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community.
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:There is actually a marketing person called Michelle Mortimer and I know her because she
set up a running club in Lincolnshire originally and then she moved house to Bolton and
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from the ground up.
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:And like that good housekeeping thing, we don't have to look too far to get the answers
that we need.
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membership, and you want to start the new year with a bang with those 300 members.
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marathons, anything can happen on the day.
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far or whatever.
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training runs basically.
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marathon, I do want to start thinking like, is the run that I'm doing near to that pace?
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continue that for 20, like 26 miles.
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month I think that happens where you're going from half marathon distances up to 20 miles
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yourself and thinking, oh, I'm not going to get it.
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that period.
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other stuff and can I trust in the process?
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Christmas, you know, it's going to be my birthday will come up, there will be these
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the phrase where you self sabotage where I'll be going really well.
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and all of that stuff.
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goal or having a week where I'm gonna probably feel rubbish at the end of it anyway.
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something written down which says when you have a day where you do relax and you're not
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that's okay, I expected this to happen so therefore it's not derailed me.
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:So that's probably thinking about your derailment strategies which I'm going to talk about
on the podcast on one of my...
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I'm terrible I'll admit this you know, coach do as I say not as I do but I'm terrible with
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think why do I ever stop running because I really love this and then I can go two weeks
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running?
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:I am so excited to see your goals unfold and thank you so much for coming back on the
podcast again this year.
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:Everybody approaches goals differently.
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:There are some similarities though sometimes we pitch our goals a little lower than the
dream we actually want.
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