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WanderingEng  ·  484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Courtney Dauwalter Learned in the Pain Cave

    She said she envisioned herself in a hard hat, wielding a chisel and “going to town, trying to make it a dust pile while I am in there.”

I do Body Pump every Sunday, and sometimes the lunge track has pulsing where you get into a lunge and go halfway up like eight, maybe sixteen times. It's always near the end of the workout, and I find it really hard. I often close my eyes and imagine the finish line of a marathon or 70.3 because to date no matter how tough it is I've always been able to run through the chute to the finish line.

I need to work on pushing through the pain cave in the middle of a race and not just the end. I always end up walking a bit when I want to keep running.

Relevant: https://run247.com/running-news/trail/utmb-2023-results-women-courtney-dauwalter-triple-crown-treble-history