Episodes
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Darla returns to talk injuries, rehab, holding on to fitness through cross training, and refusing to ever give back or back down.
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Can you just do classic track workouts on the trails? Sure. But sometimes you need something specifically designed for your off road racing needs!
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Missing episodes?
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On Tuesday we covered the workouts that give you solid fitness benefits with very little recovery costs. Today we are taking the opposite stance: workouts that are crazy costly but have the potential for big improvements to your fitness and/or confidence!
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Minimum recovery costs; maximum fitness gain. These are the workouts we find to be most repeatable, manageable, and enjoyable! We choose multiple options each for Speed, Threshold, and Tempo sessions.
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Running is hard! Are you playing to your strengths as a runner or just banging your head against the wall?
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Kirk was in California crushing marathon workouts and big mountain runs. Brakken was in Sweden… cross training?
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Scott H. Frey, Ph.D., Ed.M., is an award-winning scientist, mentor, and lifelong endurance athlete. For the past 30 years, he led a research program that focused on understanding the relationship between the brain and human performance and is now applying his methods to endurance athletes around the world.
Visit cerebralperformance.com to learn more.
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Professional runner and Guinness World Record holder Michael Wardian talks goals, recent runs and races, and his work with World Vision on a clean water initiative.
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When pace, gps or hr fails you during a race, having a metronome stride you can fall back on to ensure that you are pacing correctly is a huge advantage!
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Sean is the founder and owner of Emergence Physical Therapy Strength and Running Performance Center in Redmond, Oregon, an ultra runner, and a holder of multiple Master’s power lifting records.
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Workout One: 12x 1000m w/ 1:00 float recovery.
Workout Two: 10x 200m w/ 150m jog recovery.
Both workouts didn’t quite go as planned and adjustments had to be made during. What do you take away from a workout that goes awry?
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Life and personal questions, generated randomly, answered by us? Sounds like Long Run material!
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“I probably shouldn’t do this cool local race because it doesn’t fit in with the training block I’m currently in.” Sound familiar? Let’s chat it out!
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You asked and we delivered! Three years after our last chat with Derek about his journey with running and his battle with colon cancer, he rejoins the show to update us on his life, health, and running.
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We take some time to talk through racing goals and pick each other’s brains about the training needed to accomplish them!
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Matt joins us to talk about:
After three years of dealing with Long COVID, going from zero miles per week to racing a 100kAdapting his training to accommodate his body’s “new rules”His new book: Chasing Mastery -
Far too many runners choose their training volume based on what others are doing. This is how we think about the appropriate volume to train at!
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We continue from where we left off last week with Kirk taking the lead on his most impactful takeaways from our early episodes.
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How we approach them, our strategy, our training adjustments, and our expectations.
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We have had the opportunity to listen to so many incredible individuals impart knowledge, wisdom, and warnings over the past 500 episodes. Today we recap some of the best lessons we’ve learned from others since starting this podcast.
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