Big Goals: Running Across the Country with Nicole Antoinette

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Written by Matt Frazier

I’ve been writing a lot recently about setting big, crazy, and unreasonable goals … and Nicole Antoinette certainly knows a thing or two about the subject.

Over dinner in Los Angeles two months ago when our conversation turned to running, I asked Nicole if she was training for anything. Knowing Nicole as someone who had run a marathon or two and likes a good challenge, I figured she might be thinking about a 50K or 50-miler.

Casually, Nicole told me that she had something slightly bigger in mind. She planned to run across the country — from Santa Monica, CA, to New York City. And not on some undefined, it’ll-never-happen day in the future, but starting on March 1, 2015.

Let me say that again — Nicole has run two marathons, and nothing longer. And she’s going to run across the country next year.

At a time of year when we tend to think a little bigger than usual, it was an absolute pleasure to have Nicole as a guest on the No Meat Athlete podcast. In this inspiring episode, we talk about goals, accountability, her plant-based diet, and so much more.

Enjoy the episode!

Here’s what we talk about in this episode:

• How Nicole set a monster goal as a way to change her story
• The essential components of an effective goal
• What goes into running across the country
• How Nicole plans to stick to her plant-based diet while crossing the country
• How to stay excited about a goal that’s more than a year away
• 3 steps to goal setting that most people get wrong
• How to make choices now to keep your goal on track in the future
• Why Nicole quit drinking alcohol

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