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Running podcast to motivate & help runners of every level run their best. interviews running influencers, scientists, psychologists, nutritionists, & everyday runners with inspiring stories.
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Wednesday Aug 06, 2014
6 Time-Tested Insights from Past and Current Elite Marathoners
Wednesday Aug 06, 2014
Wednesday Aug 06, 2014
Some lessons in running span generations.
This week we have another 2-part special with one of America’s best from the 1980s and a current rising star.
Both will share the secret sauce to their success. More importantly, during the podcast you’ll get to hear and connect how their approaches to training, while different, share the same common threads. Lessons you can apply to your training.
Benji Durden
Our first part features Benji Durden, one of the country’s best marathoners in the early 1980′s. A largely self-coached athlete who later coached former RunnersConnect interview guest Kim Jones, Benji now runs a race timing company in Boulder, CO.
Like many of his running contemporaries, Benji ran a great deal of races, even in the middle of marathon build-ups and often only 2 days after his longest run of the week.
Some of the key points included:
- Benji’s training and how he blended frequent racing into marathon training
- The potential benefits of frequent racing and why every race doesn’t need to be test of one’s full potential
- The nuts and bolts of timing races (a nice insight to how you get timed for all those races you run)
Christo Landry
In our second part we welcome Christo Landry, who has been on a tear through the U.S. road racing circuit this year, winning 3 U.S. titles at different distances.
Some of the key points included:
- How Christo maintains top racing fitness for a long period of time and over different distances
- Some key workouts that form the basis of his training program
- Christo’s plan to stretch his success at shorter races into a good marathon this coming fall
This is a great podcast that highlights and compares the underlying training philosophy of every elite runners training schedule while contrasting the subtle personalization that makes it work for them.
Hopefully, this will help you understand and establish the basics of training in your own schedule while creating the tweaks that make it work for you.
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