Mental skills and techniques that help marathon and ultra runners shatter their race goals and limits.
Sierra takes the training block, the race, and the mental game of her first 50-mile ultra on the mic — what worked, what broke, and the frameworks she used to keep moving when the body was done and the mind had to take over. A full breakdown of Lake Martin from a mental performance coach who ran it.
The frameworks that hold up when your pace falls apart — self-talk, segmenting, pacing-by-effort, managing doubt at mile 20. The stuff you deploy when it gets real.
Being deliberate about how you set up your training block before you ever take a step. Mental reps, visualization, and building the kind of base that doesn't collapse under pressure.
Long-form conversations with runners who've gone through the hard stuff — the injuries, the DNFs, the PRs that took six tries. Honest interviews, not highlight reels.
Run Shattered features runners with something real to say about the mental side of the sport — no follower thresholds, no PR requirements. Tell us your story below.