Rory Linkletter on chasing failure in workouts, not results

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Rory Linkletter is a professional marathoner for Puma, a coach at Let's Tango, and a co-host of the Out & Back podcast. He talks about how his relationship with nerves has changed since college, why he thinks the pressure of competition gets more out of an athlete than chasing a specific time, and why he deliberately seeks failure in workouts as part of how he improves. He and Nicky get into the mental gap between chasing paces and racing people, why he still sprints twice a week even as a marathoner, and the rock-bottom stretch in 2021 that led him to leave his sponsor and rebuild his career under Ryan Hall. Rory also shares his current biggest weakness as an athlete (the longest of long runs), what he's chasing next in Valencia and Copenhagen, and where he sees himself eventually moving into ultra trail racing.

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