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Boone: Detaching From Outcomes Actually Makes Athletes More Competitive
“I actually think it makes me more competitive as an athlete to then not be fixated on the results. I think that when people are able to step away from that end goal as the end all be all, that's when you actually really start to thrive because otherwise it's v…”
Boone: Ultra-Endurance Races Become Completely Mental in the Second Half
“Actually many of these races, and especially because I'm geared towards the really long distance races, they're way more mental than they are physical, especially at a certain point. I say in a 24 hour race, you know, you're gonna run, the first half of the ra…”
Boone: Ultra-Runners Dominate Into Their Forties Due to Mental Resilience
“You see in a lot of these events, actually, it's people more seasoned in their late thirties, in their early forties, you can be a dominant ultra runner into your mid to late forties. And I've seen that a lot because it comes through the mental practice and th…”
Amelia Boone: Focusing only on the next step prevents endurance overwhelm
“Because when you start to look at the entire macro picture, And you get overwhelmed. And that's the key in all these races that I've always found is just focus on the next singular step. I never look in the distance. I don't wear a watch that tells me, you kno…”
Boone: Athletes falter when following another competitor's pacing strategy
“That where you are going to start to falter, and where I have fallen down in races, is when I start to run somebody else's race.”
Boone: Reaching career peaks or winning races does not bring happiness
“It's never going to be enough just to win a race. It's never going to be enough just to be sitting at the top because you think at some point, like once I get to X point in my life, once I have achieved this, then I will be happy and I will have made it. And t…”
Boone: Winning fuels fear and pressure to maintain success
“The more you win, the more you have success, the more you feel the need to stay successful, and you're so scared of falling from that.”
Boone: Fulfillment Comes From Shared Race Misery, Not Podium Victories
“The times where I felt joy and felt fulfilled and felt happiness were not the times after a race where you would be standing on a podium or where you had that great victory. They were times when I was out there in the middle of misery at three AM with fellow c…”
Boone: Staying at the Top Is Harder Because Performers Self-Sabotage
“It's hard to get to the top. It's even harder to stay there. And I think that's because once you're at the top, people start to self-sabotage.”
Boone: Changing Negative Habits Requires Appreciating How They Drove Past Success
“I think that people rarely give thanks to those parts of themselves because that's, what's brought you a lot of success in a way, even if you think it is something that's limiting. It it's a function it's of, you know, it's part of who you are. And once you ca…”
Boone: Type A athletes should replace training time with restful habits
“And I think that's very Very tough, especially for athletes that are super type A, and they're like, oh, I can't take a rest day. I can't take a day off. And I'm like, well, just do the same routine, but just shove in something else, like go to a coffee shop f…”
Boone: Avoids annual goals and resolutions, focusing on themes instead
“Yeah, I do not set goals. I don't set resolutions but I do kind of focus on themes. So I will every kind of year review, review what happened or what I took from that and then try and apply that into my life going forward.”
Boone: You Can Only Excel at Two of Three Major Life Domains
“I think people can do, like, two things pretty well. Like, if you look at, like, work, family, and extracurriculars, like, you can probably nail two out of three of those. So when you try and, like, do really well at, like, all three of those that stuff starts…”