042: Setting the Conditions For A Sub 2:45 Marathon with Jeff Cunningham

The Nick Bare Podcast

Nick Bare

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I had a conversation with my coach, Jeff Cunningham. We discuss all facets of training and how patience while embracing the hard things is vital for a marathon build. Jeff has been essential to my prep for the California International Marathon and helped me set the conditions to have a successful race day. Sub 2:45, here we come! Enjoy!

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Topics:

00:00 Intro

1:51 Welcome

4:32 Do you consider yourself an expert?

6:51 The curious amateur

11:41 Marathon prep

15:48 Training volume

25:52 Patience is key

32:02 Changes that have had significant impacts

35:11 Setting the conditions

45:03 How stress can affect your build

47:26 Keeping priorities straight

52:30 CIM Marathon

59:21 Motivation

1:04:33 Pacing strategy for CIM

1:08:06 The different points of a build

1:15:21 Embrace the hard things

1:22:25 Where to set your pace

1:31:01 Respect the marathon

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0:00.0	We create our own opportunities in life.
0:02.3	What you do through adherence to process,
0:05.0	through an intense willingness
0:07.7	to invest in the mundanity of life,
0:10.8	because let's face it, those 11 mile runs every single morning are redundant.
0:15.0	But that's the part of it that makes it so rich, it makes it so fulfilling because you
0:20.8	create your own opportunity.
0:23.0	The opportunity is December the 3rd.
0:25.4	Opportunity is for you to go out and have the best athletic performance
0:30.6	and the best athletic moment of your life, the opportunity to succeed, the opportunity
0:35.0	to have a transcendent performance on December the 3rd, that's all there.
0:39.1	But it is only created by those 11 mile runs in the pitch black on a hilly course in Nashville with nobody's looking.
0:46.0	In life we have to understand that we create our own opportunities and then when the window opens we have a choice to either dive through that window or let the
0:56.0	window slam shut and then watch the rest of the world go by on the other side of the window.
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1:48.7	appreciate you and let's dive into the show. What's going on guys? welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today I have
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