122. Ali & the Experts Week with Mary Johnson, Running Coach
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"Do your own training. Get in your own routine. Don't compare yourself to what everyone else is doing and posting everywhere. Have confidence in what you're doing." —Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson is a USATF Level-1 certified coach and the founder of Lift, Run, Perform. On this episode, she answers listener questions about coaching, strength training, and that crucial build-up to race day.
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- General coaching questions and personal questions (4:00)
- Cross training and strength training Q&A (14:10)
- Running-specific advice (22:20)
- Race-related questions (41:10)
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| 0:00.0 | Alley and the Experts Week on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Strava. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to Alley and the Experts Week. I am so excited about this special series featuring |
| 0:14.0 | seven episodes in seven days with seven different experts. We'll be covering body stuff, |
| 0:20.0 | relationship stuff, money stuff, mine stuff, and so much more all with legitimate experts in |
| 0:26.0 | their fields, giving straight answers to the questions you sent in in droves on Instagram stories. |
| 0:31.8 | In total, I received more than 1400 questions for Alley in the Experts Week, so we won't be |
| 0:37.6 | getting to all of them, obviously, but that enthusiasm is awesome and it may be enough to convince |
| 0:42.5 | me to make this a regular thing. Today we're kicking it all off with one of the greatest, |
| 0:47.5 | smartest, prettiest running coaches on the planet, Mary Johnson. You know her from Instagram as |
| 0:53.6 | it's a Mary Thon. She's a 306 marathoner of 125 half marathoner, a USATF certified coach, |
| 1:00.4 | and the founder of Litfront Perform. So if you like what you hear today, head to |
| 1:05.0 | Litfrontperform.com and hire Mary or one of her very talented coaches to help you reach your |
| 1:09.9 | running goals. Now let's let Mary answer all of your running related questions. |
| 1:14.7 | Mary Johnson coach Mary Johnson. I'm so excited to have you here joining me for Q&A week. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.3 | Let's first introduce yourself to everyone. Well, you, I mean, you're a coach. You know, |
| 1:35.5 | on the Alley on the Run Show, we start with a warm-up. Do you approve of that? |
| 1:39.7 | I love warm-ups. Yeah, I figured you might. So warm everyone up. First just tell us |
| 1:44.2 | who you are, where you're from, and what it is that you do. My name is Mary. I live in |
| 1:49.2 | currently Connecticut. My I grew up outside of Syracuse, New York. So I have a lot of Central |
| 1:54.5 | New York pride. But I currently reside right outside of New Haven, Connecticut. I am a running coach. |
| 2:01.1 | I'm a strength coach. I write things on a blog every now and then. But most importantly, |
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