Coming February 26th 2025
Building Mountains - Mental Skills for Ultra Six Part Series
This course runs February 26th through April 9th and will be on Wednesday nights at 6pm Mountain with one week off for Spring Break!
Entire Series Live and Interactive $275
February 26th – Self-Awareness & Motivation
March 5th – Mindfulness & Self-Compassion
March 12th – Self-Control | Emotional Regulation
March 26th – Self-Talk & Imagery
April 2nd – Focus & Attention | Resilience & Confidence
April 9th – Managing the Load | Planning for Race Day
The entire series will be $275, individual sessions will be available for purchase the Friday after the session for $50.
1% will go to Protect Our Winters
How will this help me?
This will help prevent you from dropping out forty-miles into your race because you don’t feel ‘motivated’ anymore.
This will help you move through discomfort - physical and mental - so you can reach your goals.
This will help you approach your training and racing flexibly and with self-compassion so you can go through ups and downs without getting rattled and off-course.
This will help you get to the starting feeling like you belong - and focused on the process ahead.
This will help you understand and regulate your nervous system - so you’re focused and acting on your goals.
In the face of setbacks this will help you reset and refocus on the bigger picture and move forward.
How is this different than other courses?
Neal is both an experienced and licensed therapist, Certified Mental Performance Consultant® and is a senior ultrarunning coach for Carmichael Training Systems. The material for this course has been generated by both evidence based research and a lot of experience working with endurace athletes in all all three roles. This is the third time this course has been offered and athletes have had a lot of success using this material.
The course is going to be interactive - part didactic and discussion, you’ll become connected with other like minded athletes who are getting after it. You’ll finish this course with solid tools and a plan you can implement in your training and racing. (And LIFE outside of training and racing!)
Feel free to reach out to me and we can set up a call to see if this would fit your needs or if there is something else I could help you with.
Is this course just for ultrarunners?
No, any endurance or mountain sport athlete is welcome to join! Having people from different sports is really helpful and can add perspective to the discussion.
I can’t attend the entire series -can I still sign up?
Yes, while it’s strongly encouraged to attend as the discussion is a large part of the training, you will be sent a copy of the training as well as worksheets and homework!
Can’t affort it
Individual sections of the course will be available for sale the Friday after for $50 per session.
Questions - email me!
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Mental Skills Trainings and Events
We train endurance. We train strength and power.
How often are you consciously training your mind?
Our mind likes to be comfortable. It wants to keep us safe. When we do extraordinary things - like running a marathon or a hundred miles there’s bound to be some discomfort, and our mind might protest a bit!
These courses are designed to help you develop the tools to not just get to the finish or the summit but help do so in a way that integrates self-compassion and psychological flexibility - so you can get through the bad parts and keep going.
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Webinar: Goal Setting for the Long Haul
Running an ultramarathon this year? Being clear with your goals is one of the first steps in getting to the finish.
Theorists and researchers have suggested that an integral part of developing mental toughness is within setting high hard goals. But having the goal – to finish Hardrock 100 is one thing, creating actionable steps is another! (the key word is ACTIONABLE).
This webinar is designed to help you create flexible and compassionate goals to have a successful season. Why do we want to integrate flexibility and self-compassion into mental toughness – that sounds counterintuitive?
Because often, things don’t go according to plan. In fact, I guarantee you – they won’t!
If you beat yourself up because it’s not going the way you envisioned it’s going to hold you back even more and be self-defeating.
This webinar is an introduction to the series Mental Skills for Ultra which starts February. It’s free and those in attendance will get a discount off the entirety of the course.
Topics Covered:
o Values Clarification – What’s Underlying the Goal?
o Long-Term Goals
o Intermediate Goals
o Behavioral-Process Goals
o Performance Goals
o Short Term-Daily Goals
o Overcoming HARD Barriers
o Included will be a copy of the presentation and worksheet for goal setting
o ALSO - Discount Code for Mental Skills for Ultrarunning Course $25 Off