131. Uphill v. Downhill Pacing, Barefoot Running Benefits (Seriously), and Toughness!
Some Work, All Play
David Roche and Megan Roche
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This episode had it all, with some of the most fun training and life topics! We kicked it off with a training discussion that could improve your form and strength FOREVER... and it involves barefoot running. We are not ashamed to speak our barefoot running truth! The main training discussion is on a new study looking at 16,518 race results to determine whether uphill or downhill splits are the most important for race performance. The results may shock you! Other topics: 5 pieces of running news (including doping and race lotteries), novel approaches to tapers, podcast stats, flopping in soccer, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and what that means for authenticity, and much more!
We also talk about the performance-enhancing properties of country music. Yes, we officially reversed our position on country-pop playlists! We apologize for our past errors. You only hate the ones you secretly love.
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| 0:00.0 | Woohoo! Welcome to some work all-play podcasts. We are so happy to be with you today. |
| 0:04.6 | Happy Tuesday! |
| 0:05.4 | It's Tuesday! |
| 0:06.4 | Freaking Tuesday and I'm feeling extra ready to record a podcast today. Are you? |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah, I am feeling so good. I think part of the reason is I'm looking at you right now |
| 0:14.4 | and you're wearing a backwards hat and you got these backwards hat vibes that are like |
| 0:19.2 | sexy but also rebellious. It is pretty hot in the end. |
| 0:22.9 | Oh, thank you. I love the backwards hat life. Actually, I'm doing it right now if I reason |
| 0:26.6 | I didn't tell you. It's because I haven't washed my hair in three days. I've been really |
| 0:30.9 | into the scalding hot bath life. But once you do that, it's really hard to wash your hair. |
| 0:35.3 | So I needed to kind of protect myself from all that hair angst that's going on. |
| 0:40.0 | So the choice for you is between bath or wash your hair. So we might be in a long-term |
| 0:44.7 | cycle right now where you don't wash your hair for years based on how much you're loving |
| 0:48.8 | this bath life. |
| 0:49.8 | I have it. I actually set hard and fast rules in myself on this because I could let it get |
| 0:53.3 | extremely out of control. I must wash my hair every four days. So we are getting closer |
| 0:58.0 | and engine closer to that point. |
| 0:59.5 | Well, you could put your head down over the pan and then we could fry some potatoes in |
| 1:02.4 | it for dinner with all that oil you got going on. |
| 1:05.7 | Mm-hmm. Toss some sweat salt on there too. It'll be great. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, but you are bringing that sexy energy. I really like it. And I mean, what's giving |
| 1:12.3 | you that ultimate reserve of sexiness? |
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