www.run4prs.com Workouts are a very important part of reaching your potential as a runner. We talk a lot about the benefits of easy running but sometimes we neglect to talk about the importance of not only running hard workouts but the importance of WHAT workouts you do. If you are training for a marathon, you don’t want to be spending a ton of time doing sprinting anaerobic workouts. Training the right systems for your goals is important. It is equally as important to make sure you are training...
Feb 06, 2024•42 min
www.run4prs.com How many miles do you run per week? How does one build up to be able to run 50 or even 100 mile weeks? Should everyone try to achieve high mileage? These are all great questions we will be addressing in this episode. Usually, runners will see great gains in fitness in the beginning of their running journey from simply going from running 0 miles to 10 miles per week. In the beginning it almost seems like the more we run, the better we get. However, there becomes a point when it be...
Jan 25, 2024•37 min
www.run4prs.com Today we are going to talk about walking & how it fits in with run training. Some people are run/walkers and other people have to start with walking on their easy days. We are going to talk about how walking can fit in with EVERYONE'S training even if you are elite. Beginners: every running pace is a hard effort Walking is their aerobic/easy pace & that will eventually turn into running as fitness improves ⭐️ WALKING IMPROVES ENDURANCE: Walking will add to your aerobic ba...
Jan 17, 2024•35 min
www.run4prs.com Many runners take time off after fall marathons and then the holidays. It can be hard to dive back into training when you are out of the swing of things. It can also be risky to ‘dive’ back into training because we have the tendency to do too much too soon. I always think one of the most injury prone runners are the ‘comeback’ runners because they use their old mileage/fitness levels are a reference point for where they want to be currently and sometimes instead of building progr...
Jan 08, 2024•32 min
www.run4prs.com We are entering the winter season right now and many athletes are forced to run inside for safety purposes. Sometimes people run inside as a preference during the winter. We are going to do a deep dive into the topic of treadmill running today. The treadmill is a great tool that often gets a bad rap in the running community for a variety of reasons. Winter running is here! The negative temperatures and icy roads can leave runners without a safe place to run. We talk about dressin...
Jan 01, 2024•37 min
www.run4prs.com Many people get to a place with their running where they feel like they can no longer improve with their running. Often this is due to the law of diminishing returns. It just becomes harder to get the extra edge. You have to increase the load somehow to give your body something new to adapt to. Sometimes when we don’t have enough rest, this is also a problem because we have the stress load but not the recovery part. What are some signs someone is at their genetic limit Test your ...
Dec 15, 2023•40 min
www.run4prs.com Everyone has goals to see improvement. It is what gets us hooked on running. We love seeing growth and the efforts of our hard work paying off. But it actually takes a bit of time to see improvements on a physiological level with endurance sports. Law of diminishing returns You will see bigger gains at the beginning of a new training cycle/process. The longer you have been working out/running the more you will hard to do to see improvements Improvement in form/mental training/pac...
Dec 08, 2023•37 min
www.run4prs.com Many people get antsy this time of year and want to get back into the swing of training. We are at 2-6 weeks after a lot of the big fall races and this might be a question you ask yourself in the upcoming weeks. We want to chat about how to get back into doing some workouts and make sure you set yourself up for a successful 2024 year. When was the last time you took more than 2-4 months without racing or doing workouts? We need to take macro rest from training cycles if we want t...
Nov 27, 2023•33 min
www.run4prs.com Why do you need to strength Train? Strength training is key for athletes playing all sports. It can also help make runners faster, more efficient and prevent injuries. Let’s face it, running takes up a lot of time! As runners we know that more running usually means you become faster. When we already are running short on time, it’s hard to think that we would need to make time for strength training too! Isn’t running already enough? The short answer is: probably not! Running is gr...
Nov 10, 2023•37 min
www.run4prs.com Many athletes have the goal to run a BQ or Boston qualifying time. The qualifying times are listed on the Boston website and are progressive based on age. If you are under 35 on race day you need to run a 3:30 or faster if you are a female or a 3:00 or faster if you are a male. These are some quick times especially because you can only qualify in the marathon. Many runners say qualifying for Boston is their long term goal. We are going to do a deep dive on what it takes to get do...
Oct 31, 2023•40 min
www.run4prs.com We are in the swing of offseason training and the last few podcasts we have talked about the importance of time off and recovery during this time of year after a big build up. However, once we get over those first few weeks off.. What should you be doing in the offseason? How should you reverse your taper? When should you start workouts again? All of these questions and more will be addressed in this episode! How to do a reverse taper How much mileage should you be running 2-3 mo...
Oct 20, 2023•35 min
www.run4prs.com It can be so tempting to want to power through and continue to run base mileage a few days or even the day after a marathon. There is such a big build up to the marathon that the drastic change from training 7+ hours per week to basically doing nothing can feel weird. We want to be productive. We want to feel like we are working toward something. However, the time after the marathon is a time to be working on our recovery. We cannot peak forever. On social media or even people in...
Oct 10, 2023•30 min
www.run4prs.com Worrying is suffering twice :) We have all been there. We all get nervous on race day to an extent. Some suffer from more race day anxiety than others. We care about your performances. We put a lot of time and energy into our training, and we hope that it all pays off on race day. It is good to care about your running, but we don’t want to be so nervous for a race that it makes us miserable! Today we are going to be chatting about ways to find zen and peace in the days and weeks ...
Sep 28, 2023•32 min
www.run4prs.com We always hear about time goals. I want to break 4 hours in the marathon. I think I can run X pace for this race… but what about non-time based goals? Are there other ways to set goals for your races? Is there a benefit to setting non-time based goals? Time goals are great for figuring out about what pace you want to run for the race, but what if you have a rocky day. You don’t want to feel like a failure if you don’t hit an arbitrary time goal. YOU PUT IN SO MUCH WORK & alre...
Sep 19, 2023•33 min
Do you have a marathon coming up? Here is a recast of the 'how you should feel every mile of the marathon'
Sep 07, 2023•40 min
www.run4prs.com Fall races are approaching quickly and people often want to begin talking about goal times for their races. There are websites like findmymarathon.com that have mile by mile breakdown of exactly what pace you should be running for each and every mile of a race based on course elevation. This is great to think about the variations of paces you might hit in a race, but it is important to remember that we are not robots. Unfortunately there isn’t a special formula that will work to ...
Aug 31, 2023•39 min
www.run4prs.com As we get closer to fall races, more athletes are getting ready to run their fall races. As we get closer to these races, it is good to talk about one of the most important parts of your training plan: the taper! What exactly is the taper? It’s not exactly a time to kick back and relax/do nothing. The taper is going to give you a chance to peak for your race at the right time. If you do too short of a taper, you run the risk of feeling heavy legs on race day. If you do too long o...
Aug 24, 2023•35 min
www.run4prs.com Whenever we get into marathon training season we start to see a lot of questions roll in about long runs. Often people focus a lot on that long run because when we do the actual marathon event, it is a LONG RUN! However, we often see people overemphasis this long run and it can cause athletes to compromise the rest of their training. The question we want to be asking ourselves as we gear up for the marathon is always: am I training… or am I testing? It can be tempting to hammer o...
Aug 16, 2023•31 min
www.run4prs.com Many times we find training plans online or we do workouts that feel good/that we are good at, but is that the most productive way to be training? We are all about taking a deeper dive into the purpose behind workouts and uncovering the best way to actually reach your goals. Too often athletes get stuck feeling burnt out or frustrated thinking that they ‘peaked’ with their running/fitness but they are just not training in a way that allows them to progress. We need two very impor...
Aug 07, 2023•39 min
www.run4prs.com No one wants to get burnt out 10-4 weeks before their goal race, but you would be amazed at how often this happens. People often start training for their goal races 20-16 weeks out. The first 6-8 weeks of training should feel pretty sustainable and easy. However, most people do not start off at a sustainable easy pace, they often pick something that gives them a sense of challenge right away. The challenge feels fun at first, but likely 5-10 weeks into this ‘fun’, the novelty wea...
Jul 27, 2023•43 min
www.run4prs.com HOW LONG SHOULD YOUR LONG RUNS BE:THE 20 MILE LONG RUN RULE Everyone who has trained for a marathon has probably googled ‘marathon training plan’ at some point. Most of the plans you find on google are going to encompass a ‘20 mile long run’. But do you need to do a 20 mile long run to finish a marathon? Or a better question might be: could doing a 20 mile long run actually have less benefit than doing a 16 miler? We are going to do a deep dive into what the research of Jack Dani...
Jul 20, 2023•45 min
HOW TO PRACTICE WATER STOPS Most athletes who follow us or listen to the podcast at some point or another hope to do a distance run or distance race. When we are training for events longer than 45-60 min, it’s important that we begin thinking about not only our fueling strategy but also how we plan to stay hydrated. During the summer months this is especially important to chat about. Many people during this time of year are gearing up for their fall marathons. When we run long runs of 2-3 hours,...
Jul 13, 2023•37 min
www.run4prs.com Ask The Coaches: Should I make up a missed workout? 1.Do I need to make up for missed workouts? If you just had a bad workout: axe it 2. What should I do if my calf is tight and hurts when I run and put hot or cold 3. Stretching: is there an ideal window of time after we should stretch? 4. What should my stride look like on an easy day- I feel like I am shuffling along with terrible form but I think about lifting my knees...
Jul 05, 2023•40 min
www.run4prs.com Running is an endurance sport. All endurance sports will require fueling in order to reach your performance potential. Don’t leave your fastest times sitting on the table because you neglect fueling! Can you run long distances without fuel, yes, but physically will you perform better when you are fueled properly? YES! When you put in hundreds of hours into training, shouldn’t we also make an investment into our nutrition/fueling to ensure that we are able to allow our fitness to ...
Jun 22, 2023•38 min
www.run4prs.com for a free 7 day trial. HUMIDITY, DEW POINT, HEAT INDEX: HOW THEY AFFECT YOUR TRAINING • Temperature alone is ❌NOT❌ the most important number to look at when determining how comfortable your run will be. Check out how humidity, dew point, and heat index affect our bodies & training:👇 • ✅HUMIDITY: Concentration/presence of water vapor in the air. It’s usually measured as relative humidity, which is a percentage of the highest possible absolute humidity. Humans are VERY sensit...
Jun 15, 2023•46 min
www.run4prs.com Training for your first marathon! Many people have a bucket list item of running a full marathon. A marathon is 26.2 miles. It is a long ways to go. Before your first marathon, it may seem unfathomable to run 26.2 miles, but with training, you can get there. We are going to dedicate this entire episode to training for your first marathon. We will go over how much you should be running before you start officially training, how long you should train for, and the rules you should fo...
Jun 08, 2023•57 min
1. What to wear/prepare for rain (I've had two athletes just ask me about this) and - Depends on the temp -40, 50, 60+ in rain are wildly different beasts 2. How to prepare for hot temps on race day.... - train in the heat -don’t sign up for races when it’s going to be hot -treadmill/sauna -shorts 3. "how to fit Orange Theory classes into your running plan" or maybe "pros & cons about doing Orange Theory classes while training for a race". I'd like to hear your guys's take on Orange Theory a...
May 31, 2023•48 min
www.run4prs.com Is it possible to make a full recovery from burnout My HR stays in zone 4 even if I slow down more than 3 min per mile How long does base building take to see results like easy running getting from 11-13 min per mile to 8-9 min per mile I’m confused how you should be able to talk on easy runs. How should this actually sound
May 18, 2023•41 min
www.run4prs.com Should you train based off HR or pace or effort Drawback of HR- wrist HR monitor doesn’t work, Most people don’t know their appropriate zones, other things impact your HR like stress, time of the month, medication, weather, sleep, caffeine Pace has drawbacks as well. Hills will make you slower. Heat will make you Going off of effort→ it is a learning curve. You have to be okay with bombing a workout and not knowing you stats. Don’t look at your watch. You have done these workouts...
May 11, 2023•47 min
Run streaks! Maybe you have seen people on social media talking about their 1000 day run streaks or maybe you have no idea what a run streak is. Today we are going to talk about the topic of ‘run streaking’. Before we dive into this topic, we wanted to define a run streak. A run streak is simply running every single day (no days off from running) usually defined with a minimum of 1 mile per day and the streak continues on ‘forever’. Maybe people participate in the shorter runner’s worlds run str...
May 04, 2023•43 min
