Say 'hi' to my coach
196 days until WSER
Let me introduce you to my coach for WSER: Karim Ramadan. I’ve known Karim for roughly a year now and we’ve worked together on some mental aspects of my running in spring and for CCC. In fact he’s a sports psychologist, but also an experienced physical coach for all sorts of endurance sports, especially ultra and mountain running. I first heard about Karim, when he was featured on Koop Cast, one of my favorite running podcasts, hosted by Jason Koop. Karim was invited to Koop Cast twice, discussing the topics of mental skills and self talk for endurance athletes.
I really like Karim’s open minded yet still scientific approach. He’s among the new breed of coaches who are very up to date with the latest papers on training theory, nutrition, sports psychology and sports science in general and has a fresh and modern way of working with athletes of all sorts of backgrounds. After all, it’s good to have someone on my side who also addresses the mental aspects of running. I am sure this will make up the bigger part of the challenges posed by WSER.
