Our guest expert for this episode is: Mary Jennings: an Irish running coach with a Masters Degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Mary founded ForgetTheGym in 2007 to encourage people to get outdoors, get moving and get motivated.

In her book ‘Get Running’; Mary outlines her belief that exercise should be fun, social, enjoyable and pain free. As a keen long-distance runner Mary herself has completed over 40 marathons and ultra-marathons up to 100k in distance.

Mary has kindly agreed to share an excerpt of an article she wrote that was first published in the Irish Times. As you will read below, Mary takes 10 mental strategies and explains how they can be applied to improve running performance: “Training our head as well as our legs”.