Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life Mountain Running with Grayson Murphy | Developing Athletic Talent
Jul 19, 2023
49:13
Grayson Murphy is astonishing. She is a current world champion in mountain running, which is a new sport to us, but we’re excited to talk to her about it. She got a bronze this year in the vertical climb for mountain running, and she tells us all about her experience going through the championships. She’s now training and has even recently qualified for going to the Olympics, but has also dealt with some injuries and nerve issues that prevented her from competing and it took a long process of trial and error, but eventually she was able to figure it out and continue training.
“I figured out I had choked out a nerve and so I couldn’t feel a lot of things and I couldn’t get the muscles to turn on, so that’s why it felt dead. It took 4 months of kind of trying to figure out what was wrong, and then once I figured it out it only took 4 weeks to get it up and running again, but it was a long process of trial and error.” 30:36
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- A bit about Grayson’s experience 1:15
- How she got into this sport 4:50
- Moving to running from soccer 14:30
- Aiming for the olympics 24:10
- Her boyfriend also shooting high 26:40
- Self treatment and injury 29:10
- Mental health and her training logs 34:55
- Getting a variety of skill sets 43:20
“I figured out I had choked out a nerve and so I couldn’t feel a lot of things and I couldn’t get the muscles to turn on, so that’s why it felt dead. It took 4 months of kind of trying to figure out what was wrong, and then once I figured it out it only took 4 weeks to get it up and running again, but it was a long process of trial and error.” 30:36
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