By Sarah Maurer
Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how
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After taking a year off due to long COVID, I was excited to make 2024 my most epic summer yet!
Things started off well. I finished a trail marathon in May and was gunning for my first post-Covid 50K in June.
And then bam. Setbacks!
COVID struck again, followed by a drug-resistant UTI. June became a wash, and I found myself off for the entire month.
When July arrived, I tried to ease back into hiking and trail running and realized I had lost a lot of conditioning.
It was heart-breaking. I had so many epic hikes and climbs planned with so many people!
And now I was going to be SUPER SLOW. If I could do it at all.
This week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain Podcast is the story of how I fucking did it anyway.
Slowly.
With people.
With self-compassion.
With self-trust.
We'll cover:
Work With Me:
If you’re a pressured perfectionist who'd not where you want to be with your health and fitness, I’d love to help you shift into a kinder and more sustainable approach.
Click here to schedule a discovery call, and let’s start working together on a more empowered and compassionate version of yourself!
In this episode, we dive deep into the psychology of perfectionism, exploring its impact on mental health, stress levels, and self-worth.
Key Quotes:
We'll cover:
Remember, it’s okay to be imperfect—and more importantly, it’s human. Take small steps toward self-compassion and give yourself the grace to make mistakes along the way.
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In this week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain podcast, we dive into a common struggle for perfectionists and athletes alike: missed workouts.
Whether you’re training for an endurance event like a marathon or just exercising to look and feel better, skipping a workout can send you into a spiral of panic and guilt.
I know this firsthand, having transitioned from a personal trainer for outdoor endurance athletes (hiking, mountaineering, trail running) to a health and wellness coach for pressured perfectionists.
What We Cover:
Are You a Pressured Perfectionist Ready to Train Smarter, Not Harder?
If you're done with overtraining and exhausting yourself, I can help you bring balance to your active lifestyle.
In this week's episode of Climb Your Mountain, I share the story of an unfortunate series of drink spills ... and the surprising lessons that came from them.
From embarrassment and guilt to spiritual insight and self-kindness, this story goes deeper than just clumsiness. It’s about learning to be kinder to myself and embracing the imperfections we all have.
Key Takeaways:
Work With Me:
If you’re a pressured perfectionist who'd not where you want to be with your health and fitness, I’d love to help you shift into a kinder and more sustainable approach.
Click here to schedule a discovery call, and let’s start working together on a more empowered and compassionate version of yourself!
Tune in next time for more insights and stories about health, fitness, and the path to self-kindness.
You're focused on a goal like following a training plan, eating healthy, or meal prepping.
You do great for a week ... or sometimes a few weeks.
And then ... CRASH.
You just can't get yourself to step on that treadmill, log that sushi, or take out that slow cooker.
When you try to act, a brick wall of resistance comes up.
Is it because you're lazy?
Do you just need a kick in the pants?
Is the answer to scare yourself?
NOOOOOO.
On this week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain podcast, we dive into:
👉 The psychology of consistency
👉 Why efforting, shaming, and guilting your way there almost always backfire eventually
👉 And the mindset you need to do more with less struggle — and tear down that brick wall that's in your way.
COACH WITH SARAH:
I used to believe when it came to exercise, more was always more.
Especially for a multisport athlete who is running, backpacking, mountaineering and wanting to be ALWAYS READY TO ROLL at a moment's notice.
Also, as I cruised toward 50, I felt like I needed to work harder just to maintain a certain level of performance.
But this summer, I got tired of being exhausted.
Tired of grinding through my day job.
Tired of feeling irritated with every little thing. (Like I would knock over a can of Seltzer and fly into a rage.)
Tired of starting each weekend adventure exhausted from the last weekend adventure.
Tired of feeling spacey and not fully connected while coaching my clients.
So I did a crazy thing.
😱 I actually cut back my workouts by 30%.
And you know what?
I am absolutely loving the results!
I feel like I'm actually performing BETTER on my adventures.
And having more time and energy for everyone else in my life.
In this week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain podcast, I'll pull back the curtain and share exactly how I started working out smarter and not harder.
We'll go through the full before and after.
(And also why I didn't do it sooner. I had a lot of insecurities about cutting back. But they were just lies my brain was telling me.)
I hope this gives you so much permission to stop grinding and create a more joyous and sustainable fitness life!
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"I'm silly for feeling this way."
"Other people have it worse."
"Some people have war in their countries."
"Look at me and my first world problems."
Have you ever said things like these to yourself during times of stress or sadness?
If so, it's totally understandable!
We're all programmed to disregard our mental health by a capitalist society that benefits when we push through, grind it out, and shame ourselves for not having high vibes 100% of the time.
Well, no more!
In this week's episode, I'll share some of my own recent experiences with stress and mental health and how I finally realized I needed to stop gaslighting myself and take my own emotions seriously.
And I'll share some tips for breaking free of the matrix so you can create space and permission to regulate your nervous system and feel better.
COACH WITH SARAH:
Have you ever thought about signing up to hike the Inca Trail?
Or summit Mt. Rainier?
Or even join a pub run at your neighborhood bar?
And then stopped yourself, because you're worried about slowing the group down or getting left behind?
Friend, if you are feeling ashamed of your pace and worrying you won't fit in ...
I have a GOLDEN tip for you on this week's episode of Climb Your Mountain.
We'll discuss:
⭐️ Why the fastest is not always the fittest (<- life changing shit alert!)
⭐️ How so many recreational athletes are missing out on life-changing experiences because of insecurities around being slow
⭐️ What other people really think about your pace
⭐️ What you need to believe to make joining group activities fun again
⭐️ Tips for enjoying group outings and trips when you're the slowest one (from personal experience!)
COACH WITH SARAH:
Before I was a life coach, I was an endurance sports coach (think running and mountaineering).
And I'll tell you one thing: almost all my clients were overtraining.
They believed that more was better.
And if they slowed down even a little, they'd crumble.
And that the answer to getting older was to train harder.
Almost none of them were getting enough rest to really hit their peak performance. In fact, they were so inflamed that injuries and illnesses were common.
Friends, I am here to save you from all that.
On this week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain podcast, we're going to talk about the benefits of UNDERtraining.
How erring on the side of doing too little can:
If you're a runner, hiker, backpacker, mountaineer, or any kind of endurance athlete, this episode will set your free!
COACH WITH SARAH:
You've got big plans for your life! You want to ditch the day job, start your own business, and run a 100-mile ultra — all while dating and finding your perfect person.
But who the hell has time for that?
A lot of us are afraid to dream bigger because we already feel so squeezed for time.
But here's a cool thing: It's possible to create more time.
Not by bullet journaling your life away.
Not by treating scheduling as a blood sport.
But simply by changing the way you think about time.
Sound too good to be true?
Then you MUST tune into this week's episode of Climb Your Mountain podcast and hear my 13 top time hacks for space and productivity.
This is me talking to you as someone who is growing a business while working a corporate job, caring for an aging parent, training for an ultramarathon, and still getting outside and staying connected to the people I love.
These 13 tips changed my life. And I know they'll change yours too!
COACH WITH SARAH:
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