Joy Before Fear
Joy Before Fear
Podcast Description
Health resilience keeps runners, ultrarunners, and endurance athletes adapting, recovering, and thriving for the long haul.
Joy Before Fear is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. A shift beyond grit-and-grind culture to what truly sustains performance. Because it’s not just about training—it’s about whether you can recover and get the adaptations you’re chasing.
Through real strategies, athlete stories, and live race spotlights, this podcast helps you train smarter, recover better, and build an athletic life that lasts.
Be bold. Put your health first. You got this. Choose Joy Before Fear™
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of athletic resilience, personal growth, and the mental aspects of endurance sports, highlighted by episodes such as Jenny Low discussing her connection to nature and mindset practices at the Orcas Island 100 miler and Ted Clifton sharing his journey to becoming an ultrarunner while advocating for environmental sustainability in home building.
Health resilience keeps runners, ultrarunners, and endurance athletes adapting, recovering, and thriving for the long haul.
Joy Before Fear is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. A shift beyond grit-and-grind culture to what truly sustains performance. Because it’s not just about training—it’s about whether you can recover and get the adaptations you’re chasing.
Through real strategies, athlete stories, and live race spotlights, this podcast helps you train smarter, recover better, and build an athletic life that lasts.
Be bold. Put your health first. You got this. Choose Joy Before Fear™
In this episode, Jenny Low shares how her connection to nature, her inner voice, and her “try and try again” philosophy shape her approach to life, running, and long-term goals. She reflects on reaching 90 miles at the Orcas Island 100 miler—her furthest distance yet—and how mindset training supported her decision-making and focus on race day. Jenny discusses setting clear DNF criteria, making peace with downtime injuries, and the value of preparing for discomfort ahead of time. She also speaks to the role of community in her journey, highlighting how support, connection, and shared experience have made ultra running more than just a sport. She offers a refreshing outlook on the process of working toward goals, grounded in patience and self-trust.
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Be Bold.
Put Your Health First.
You Got This.
Choose Joy Before Fear.
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