If you feel discouraged with your mountaineering training progress, I want you to imagine with me.

Imagine yourself a year from now.

What will you be able to climb? How different will your body feel? What will be easy for you?

If you worry it might not actually be that different, consider this. Science suggests that most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in a month, but underestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

And I am here to tell you that if you keep up the hard work, you might not recognize yourself 12 months from now.

So today on the podcast, to give you an example, I'm going to look back at my own development over the past year. I'll share what changed physically and the mindset that got me there.

Ready? Let's do it!

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In this episode, you’ll learn …

• Why so many endurance athletes are discouraged with their short-term progress. How looking at endurance training progress in terms of years rather than weeks and months can help us appreciate our accomplishments.

• The power of owning your results versus delegating them to a coach or training program. Why it's tempting to hand off responsibility to someone or something else. Benefits of owning your failures and successes.

• How the practice of embodiment can help you get better results in training. Why external expectations interfere with our embodiment and make us needless and wantless. Simple ways to tune into your body's needs.

• The importance of fun and flexibility in training. How writing my own training rules improved my quality of life and motivation.

• What to do when you don't feel like you belong in your sport. Why belonging is simply a decision we can make for ourselves. My vision for the sport of ultrarunning and normalizing slow speeds.