In this episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh talks to Addie Bracy, an elite ultrarunner, coach, and sports psychology professional, about the importance of mental training in running and everyday life. Addie shares her journey from competing in Olympic Trials to discovering trail running and ultramarathons, and explains how her approach to running evolved over time.

The conversation explores how daily life stressors can affect athletic performance, why self-awareness is important when setting realistic goals, and how runners can develop mental skills to handle challenges and disappointments. Addie also discusses breathing techniques for managing anxiety, the role of journaling in understanding performance patterns, and why setbacks can be valuable opportunities to learn and improve.

In this episode we covered:

• Addie Bracy's journey from track running to trail running and ultramarathons
• Why mental training is important alongside physical training and nutrition
• How to set realistic goals and develop self-awareness
• How daily stress and anxiety can affect running performance
• Breathing techniques that may help manage stressful moments
• How journaling can help runners understand their mental strengths and challenges
• How to handle discomfort, pressure, and setbacks during races
• Why disappointing results can become opportunities to learn and improve
• How mental skills developed through running can also help in professional and personal life

Guest Profile:
Addie Bracy is a Mental Performance Expert and a trail runner. Apart from the Olympic Qualifiers, Addie has won three USATF National Championships, and been selected to compete internationally on 10 USA teams. In 2017, she was a scoring member of Team USA's Gold Medal team at the World Championships for mountain running. Over the last ten years, Bracy has worked with athletes at the high school, collegiate, and post-collegiate levels. Addie is also a coach with over ten years, and her training methods include mental training as a significant aspect.
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Instagram: @addiebracy

About Vikas Singh:
Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale and Reliance before coming up with an idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.
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Gmail: vikas@fitpage.in
Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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Akshy Sridhar is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and marathoner who has completed 18 marathons and run under three hours twice. With a demanding career and years of consistent training, his journey offers valuable insights into improving marathon performance without overcomplicating the process.

In this episode of Run With Fitpage, we covered Akshy’s journey from casually jogging during his civil services preparation to completing his first marathon and eventually achieving a sub-3-hour marathon. He shares how he built consistency, adapted his training, and balanced running with the responsibilities of his work.

We also discuss his weekly training structure, marathon pacing, nutrition, strength training, recovery, and the importance of enjoying the process rather than focusing only on race timings.

In this episode, we covered:

• Akshy’s journey from casual jogging to marathon running
• How he progressed from a 3:54 marathon to a sub-3 finish
• Balancing marathon training with the responsibilities of an IAS officer
• Weekly mileage, easy runs, tempo runs, intervals, and long runs
• Marathon nutrition, fueling, strength training, and recovery
• Race-day pacing and saving energy for the final kilometers
• The importance of consistency, self-motivation, and enjoying the process

About Vikas Singh:
Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.
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Instagram: @vikas_singhh
LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Twitter: @vikashsingh101

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Nine years ago, Camille Herron crossed what she thought was the finish line at the Comrades Marathon, started celebrating, and kept walking, before realizing she still had 200 metres to sprint. It's the story most people know her for.

In Episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas talks to Camille about her equally interesting life journey, setting ultra distance world records across 50K, 100K, 24 hour, 48 hour and six day formats, Camille traces her path from a shy, largely nonverbal child with a central auditory processing disorder to a valedictorian and gifted program student, and eventually a biomedical researcher who spent twelve years as a bone imaging microscopist while training twice a day.

She talks about the autism and ADHD diagnosis she received in her forties, and how reworking her daily schedule in 2015, not her training, was the actual turning point that led to two world titles in a single year.

The conversation also covers her marathon career (a 2:37:14 pre super shoe personal best), her decision to leave full time work for professional running in 2019, and the mental frameworks, like eating the elephant one bite at a time and dedicating every race to someone else, that get her through multi day events most runners can't imagine attempting.

In this episode we covered:

• Why Camille stopped short of the finish line at Comrades Marathon and had to sprint the last 200 metres once she realized the race wasn't over
• Growing up largely nonverbal until age six or seven due to a central auditory processing disorder
• Being "twice exceptional," placed in a gifted program as a child while living with an undiagnosed disability
• Getting diagnosed with autism and ADHD in her forties, and how it explained her lifelong ability to hyperfocus
• Working twelve years as a bone imaging microscopist while training twice a day around a full time job
• The 2015 schedule change, evening long runs and a midday run added in, that led to two world titles in one year
• Flying home after winning the 2015 100K World Championship and being back at her research job the next Monday
• Meeting Frank Shorter, who signed her poster "run for stress release," a moment that reframed her running
• Why she left full time employment for professional running in 2019
• Her "eat the elephant one bite at a time" strategy for surviving multi day races
• Why she dedicates every race to someone else, including the origin of her "Wings for Sophia" tribute
• Her 2:37:14 marathon best, run before the era of carbon plated super shoes
• Building out her coaching business, Run with Camille, to make elite coaching more globally accessible

About Vikas Singh:
Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.
For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:
Instagram: @vikas_singhh
LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Twitter: @vikashsingh101

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