Get ready for an incredible story with Australian middle distance runner Sarah Billings.

After battling years of injuries and setbacks, she has made an astounding return to form recently clocking an Olympic Qualifier and smashing her 1500m PB by 7 SECONDS! 

There's a lot of lessons in this journey, but with some specific mindset help from a performance coach, mixed in with years of resilience and consistency, listen in to find out what made the difference to help Sarah run the race of her life.

Also our apologies for the audio quality, our mics didn't end up working for the episode.

Timestamp:
00:00 - Introduction
03:25 - Sarah's Friday Session and Training Week
08:15 - Injury History
15:20 - Finally preventing injuries
18:40 - Cross-training Methods
19:20 - Hilarious Bike Experience
22:45 - Recurring Injury: The Mindset
25:00 - Allowing the Body to Adapt and Recover
28:50 - Train Load and Intensity For China
31:30 - Having a Performance Coach
35:00 - Mental Approach to Expectations
36:30 - Simple Plan and Strategy
39:00 - PB and 5th Aussie breaking the 4 min barrier.
42:15 - Sarah's Approach for the Year
44:30 - Lessons From the Injuries
46:40 - Running Sub-4 min Mindset
49:00 - Power of Self-Belief
50:20 - Sarah's Training Schedule
51:50 - High Volume VS Low Volume Training
53:40 - Benefits of Easy Running
55:20 - Don't Take Yourself So Seriously

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