{"id":68926,"date":"2025-08-15T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68926\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:13:06","slug":"who-knew-its-a-mental-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68926\/","title":{"rendered":"Who knew? It\u2019s a mental game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does this effort\u2014whether it\u2019s your off-track weightlifting or mile 34 of a 50-mile race\u2014exist in your larger plan? Remembering the big picture helps ultramarathoners push past present discomfort toward a greater good. It sounds obvious, but there\u2019s as much pre-planning and strategy in any ultramarathon as there are sweaty hours of running. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sylvianordskar\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sylvia Nordskar<\/a>, a Norwegian trail runner and Hoka spokesperson, says \u201cI always try to stay focused on the important things, which is what matters in terms of the goal and what I can control in the moment. During tough workouts, it would be to focus on the objective of the workout like pace, technique, fueling and recovery. At races, I usually have already made a plan on how I want to run the course and therefore I try to focus on that strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Csillag agrees: \u201cIt&#8217;s a long run. It&#8217;s not one step. I might fail at one step but if I want and I am ready to put the work in and I am persistent, I won&#8217;t fail in the long run. One workout does not do miracles, many do. One race won&#8217;t say everything about you, many will do,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does this effort\u2014whether it\u2019s your off-track weightlifting or mile 34 of a 50-mile race\u2014exist in your larger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-68926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}