I've been able to bring down my running from 10 minute miles to 7 minute and 30 second miles in 1 year. This has been my biggest accomplishment of my entire life and I feel the biggest contribution has been developing my mindset to force my body develop muscle fibers that will help me sustain a faster pace. Some people are given this talent naturally, I'm not one of them. The only way I was able to accomplish this is by putting in the work, consistently working hard, focusing on proper form and telling myself "I can do anything." The first year of running I changed my mentality from run/walk to focusing on running. To make this switch from walk breaks to just running fast even though it was hard no matter how bad I wanted it. That's what changed for me, whenever I had doubts about the pace I would tell myself "I can do anything." And thinking like that made me able to go farther than ever before physically.

There is no magic fix-all answer to running faster and longer. Practice is the magic fix-all answer. I'm Erick, and I'll be your host on this journey. Today we talk about lessons learned in 2022. I'm not going to pretend that these lessons will apply to everyone and every situation, but hopefully there are some learnings here that help you out!