Between 2019 and 2020, I went through significant trauma, which affected my mindset and weakened my mental resilience. I lost touch with my passions, and injuries became more frequent. Then, COVID hit, impacting the world, and I feel like I just fell into a rut. Over the last four years, I haven’t felt that drive, that motivation. It was like my passion disappeared.
Recently, I’ve been listening to Andy Frisella and reading his work on mental toughness and I just finished the book, and it’s helping me realign. I see now that my mindset and perspective contributed to what I’ve been experiencing. I allowed myself to spiral, especially after my mom passed away last year, just two months after my accident. For the first time, I feel like it’s all coming together – how much mental toughness really matters.
I also realized that part of my discontentment with endurance sports over the last several years was that I forgot it was supposed to be hard. Every time I felt defeated, I let it get to me instead of remembering that this is meant to be challenging – that not many people are even attempting these things. I got in my own head, and rather than using my mental toughness to push through, I beat myself up and eventually gave up. I think that’s what really drained the joy from it for me: I didn’t embrace the pain and struggle. My expectations became misaligned from the reality of what it means to push limits in endurance sports.
I will start 75 Hard on 11/18, I have done a full…
