Climb Your Mountain
Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how to eat, train, think, and above all live like a mountain athlete. Each week, Sarah will teach you practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, deal with training setbacks, save time, and stay happy and healthy through the long training season. Sarah earned her high altitude mountaineering certificate from Colorado Mountain Club in 2017 at age 41 and has since summited peaks in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA, including Mount Rainier. She's also completed six (and counting) ultramarathons. She's living, breathing proof that you don't need to be 22 and have 6% body fat to be an endurance athlete. On this podcast, she shares her no-nonsense advice on fitness, (un)diet, motivation, and self belief to help you train for your goal. It's a mix of interviews and solo jam sessions you won't want to miss. So subscribe and get ready to blow your own mind.
Climb Your Mountain
#93 – How I turned a month-long illness into an epic summer
After taking a year off due to long COVID, I was excited to make 2024 my most epic summer yet!
Things started off well. I finished a trail marathon in May and was gunning for my first post-Covid 50K in June.
And then bam. Setbacks!
COVID struck again, followed by a drug-resistant UTI. June became a wash, and I found myself off for the entire month.
When July arrived, I tried to ease back into hiking and trail running and realized I had lost a lot of conditioning.
It was heart-breaking. I had so many epic hikes and climbs planned with so many people!
And now I was going to be SUPER SLOW. If I could do it at all.
This week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain Podcast is the story of how I fucking did it anyway.
Slowly.
With people.
With self-compassion.
With self-trust.
We'll cover:
- Why being undertrained isn't always a bad thing (especially for us pressured perfectionists).
- The magic of focusing on one activity at a time.
- How to listen to and trust your body.
- Ways to focus on your whole health during recovery (not just fitness).
- Thoughts that foster self-compassion.
Work With Me:
If you’re a pressured perfectionist who'd not where you want to be with your health and fitness, I’d love to help you shift into a kinder and more sustainable approach.
Click here to schedule a discovery call, and let’s start working together on a more empowered and compassionate version of yourself!