The Endurance Athlete Journey
Sometimes endurance sports can be overwhelming and confusing. Understanding the nuances of training and how to stay healthy and making progress can leave you scratching your head sometimes. On top of all that, knowing how to fuel for performance and overall fitness increases the complexity of the sport even more. The Endurance Athlete Journey podcast is your guiding light on the path to success in your endurance sports journey.
The Endurance Athlete Journey
Episode 57: Built to Last - Goals, Grit, and Endurance
Summary:
In Episode 57 of The Endurance Athlete Journey Podcast, Coach Justin and Coach Katie kick off the new year with a deep dive into goal setting for endurance athletes. They explore how to create meaningful, realistic, and trackable goals that go beyond race results, emphasizing the importance of process-oriented habits like recovery, nutrition, mobility, and consistency. Drawing from their own experiences and coaching philosophies, they discuss how to balance performance goals with lifestyle demands, why goals should evolve throughout the season, and how small, often-overlooked details can be the difference between stagnation and long-term progress. This episode offers practical insight to help athletes set goals they can actually sustain—and enjoy—throughout the year.
Key Takeaways from the Episode
- Goals should include both quantitative (performance-based) and qualitative (process-based) elements
- Outcome goals alone can lead to disappointment; process goals build consistency and resilience
- Realistic goal setting requires an honest look at time availability, life demands, and recovery
- Goals should be reassessed and adjusted as training progresses—up or down as needed
- Small habits like mobility, self-care, hydration, and fueling often limit progress more than training volume
- Treat recovery and self-care like workouts by scheduling and tracking them
- SMART goals help turn big ambitions into actionable, measurable steps
- Enjoying the journey—not just the outcome—is key to long-term athletic growth
For all things coaching, reach out:
Coach Katie: www.Fuel2Run.com
Coach Justin: www.TabulaRasaRacing.com
Podcast Email: theenduranceathletejourney@gmail.com
