EP159: #teamrun2pb Athlete Interview - Steve Friend

This week on the Better with Running Podcast, Chriso and Zacca breakdown a big weekend at Burnley, with Chris having a fantastic run, representing his club the Bendigo Bats running 1:18:50 over the half marathon distance. Chris takes us through race week, preparing and executing on the day. Zacca continues to knock out steady running but looks at some tweaks to try and get some more conditioning in the legs.

Chriso and Zacca talk through the excitement of seeing a number of run2pb athletes and the running community in general out there having a crack at a race.

This weeks Run2PB Guest is Steve Friend, who joined run2pb in 2020, He is based in Adelaide and coached by Olympian Madeline Heiner. We hear the extraordinary story about Steve starting his running journey with some health challenges. He Is now an accomplished runner, who has become a role model for his kids. Steve lets us in on what he has learned along the journey and some of his favourite sessions. Chriso then puts him under the blow torch with quick fire Q&A , and he also hangs around for some world record chat, which includes a proposal his way at an attempt.

The show concludes with a broad recap from the weekends results, including some amazing achievements from a number of run2pb athletes.

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