Training Tuesday: Get to Know Your Stride
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!
Mar 20, 2025•25 min•Ep. 514
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Two endurance athletes and coaches sit down to talk all things running! We bring you high level running knowledge and present it at a practical level.
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Episode 510: Sean Roach
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.
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 513
Training Tuesday: Lessons From Intervals
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?
Mar 12, 2025•57 min•Ep. 512
Episode 508: Non-Running AMA (mostly)
Life and personal questions, generated randomly, answered by us? Sounds like Long Run material!
Mar 08, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 511
Training Tuesday: Don’t Let Training Get in the Way of Racing!
“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!
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 510
Episode 506: Derek Rubis Pt 2
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.
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 509
Training Tuesday: A Conversation About Training & Goals
We take some time to talk through racing goals and pick each other’s brains about the training needed to accomplish them!
Feb 26, 2025•59 min•Ep. 508
Episode 504: Matt Fitzgerald - Chasing Mastery
Matt joins us to talk about: After three years of dealing with Long COVID, going from zero miles per week to racing a 100k Adapting his training to accommodate his body’s “new rules” His new book: Chasing Mastery
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 507
Training Tuesday: How We Think About Mileage
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!
Feb 18, 2025•56 min•Ep. 506
Episode 502: Reminders Part Two
We continue from where we left off last week with Kirk taking the lead on his most impactful takeaways from our early episodes.
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 505
Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Early Season Races”
How we approach them, our strategy, our training adjustments, and our expectations.
Feb 12, 2025•59 min•Ep. 504
Episode 500: Five Years of Reminders
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.
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 503
Training Tuesday: 8 Mini Topics
Our current practices for injury prevention. How to implement hill work and at what grade of steepness. How Lactate Threshold HR and pace change over time. When to time trial and when to race. Plus more!
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 502
Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Strength Training”
Why should runners lift? What is really considered strength training when it comes to endurance running? How often do we think a runner should lift? Do we prioritize performance or prevention of injury? And much more!
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 501
Q&A: Your Questions Answered!
Jan 25, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 500
Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Choosing a Running Shoe”
This isn’t us telling you what shoes to get. We’re not telling you what shoes we think are “good”. There is really no such thing as a “good” or “bad” shoe these days; just a shoe that does or doesn’t work well for your foot and purpose. Today we discuss how to decide what shoes are likely to be a good match for your feet, your stride, and your terrain.
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 499
Episode 497: Cam Bostock
Cam is a renowned endurance athlete, through hiker, and all around outdoor adventurer. In 2024, between completing the Pacific Crest Trail and several other adventures, he slept outdoors more than indoors!
Jan 18, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 498
Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Off Season / Base Building”
This is episode three in a series of Training Tuesdays explaining our rationale behind the way we think about and execute various pieces of our training. Today: How to approach your Off Season.
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 497
Episode 495: Ian Floyd - Pt 2
Ian completed two of the tougher 100 mile races in the US this past year, despite never running a race longer than 65 miles prior. Today we chat about persevering, staying the course, and putting one foot in front of the other when you absolutely do not want to.
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 496
Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Speed Development”
This is episode two in a series of Training Tuesdays explaining our rationale behind the way we think about and execute various pieces of our training. Today: Speed Development for distance runners. How much, when to do it, and how to know what exactly you need as a runner.
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 495
Episode 493: Setting Our 2025 Goals
We lay out our training and racing goals & aspirations for the coming season!
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 494
Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Warming Up”
We’re kicking off a series of Training Tuesday episodes explaining our rationale behind the way we think about and execute various pieces of our training. Today: the Pre-Race Warm Up. Most people do far too little. Some people do way too much. Either way, we’re not telling just telling you HOW to warm up, we’re telling the REASON we believe you should warm up a certain way.
Jan 01, 2025•57 min•Ep. 493
Episode 491: Our 2024 Year In Review
One of us did a lot of running and racing. The other did a lot of rehabbing and dreaming about racing. We both learned a ton.
Dec 28, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 492
Episode 490: Austin Smeenk
The world record holder in the 400m and 800m, Austin competed at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Summer Paralympic Games, winning a gold and a bronze medal in Paris 24.
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 42 min
Training Tuesday: Mini Q&A
We discuss our recent training, team racing strategy, fueling during stage racing, and our reactions to the training principles David Roche implemented during his build to the Leadville 100.
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Training Tuesday: Is Your Running Relationship a Healthy One?
How often should you look forward to your runs? How often should you feel good during a run? How should running (or missing a run) affect your daily life? Does race performance affect your self worth?
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 487
Episode 487: No Context Social Media Clips
Ian Hosek combs through the social media clips from our 2024 episodes and questions us about things we’ve said that he disagrees with!
Dec 06, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 486
Training Tuesday: Listener Questions
Traditional lifting vs CrossFit for runners Speed first vs Endurance first for a new runner How early to wake up before races and long runs Workout anxiety/doubts and more!
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 485
Training Tuesday: OCR Training > Traditional Run Training?
If you aren’t an elite runner, is OCR style training your best way to improve your running?
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 484
Episode 484: Betsy Mueller
When Betsy was diagnosed with MS she had two choices: give in, or go all in!
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 483
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