158. Tyler Andrews on the Future of Virtual Races and How to Bring Runners Together
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Tyler Andrews is a HOKA elite runner and multiple record holder. I had Tyler on the podcast a few years ago when he was gearing up for his 50k world record attempt. He just missed that record but he’s been busy staying fit and going after even more challenges.
That’s our discussion today because Tyler finds himself in a similar situation as the rest of us: training without a clear goal on the calendar. So, he made up his own race!
Recently, he organized the Chaski Challenge where over 50 Olympians and other elite runners raced a marathon relay with live tracking and thousands of other runners participating virtually. There was race commentary by Tyler, Des Linden and Amelia Boone.
This was the most innovative type of virtual race I’ve ever heard of and having it organized by a 3x Team USA member and 50-mile national champion is just incredible.
In this conversation, we talk more about this event, more races that he’s organizing in the future, giving back to the running community, and how you can get involved.
In particular, we dug deep into the "pursuit of happiness" versus the "happiness of pursuit."
Show Links & Resources:
- Follow Tyler on Instagram and Strava
- Read more about the Chaski Challenge
- Find other virtual races for 2020
- Virtual race strategy
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| 0:00.0 | Ready. |
| 0:02.0 | Say, go. |
| 0:04.0 | This is episode 158 with two time Olympic trials marathon qualifier, |
| 0:10.0 | world record holder for the fastest half marathon ever run on a treadmill and the 2014 Vermont |
| 0:16.2 | City Marathon Champion, Mr. Tyler Andrews. Welcome to the Strength Running Podcast, My name is Jason Fitzgerald and I'm your host and the head coach of |
| 0:34.2 | strength running, a community of endurance runners who are passionate about |
| 0:38.1 | improving and reaching their potential. My goal with strength running is to give you the training ideas, strategies, and resources to accomplish all of your big goals. |
| 0:49.0 | From running your first race ever to completing every World Marathon major, preventing your next injury, or becoming a stronger, more coordinated athlete. |
| 0:58.0 | I'll be bringing you the leaders in the fitness world, the pro coaches, performance experts, elite runners, sports |
| 1:05.6 | psychologists, thought leaders, physical therapists, and strength coaches to give you |
| 1:11.4 | new insights into this incredible sport. I want you to better |
| 1:15.6 | understand running, to view knowledge as a competitive advantage and to always |
| 1:20.6 | have the tools to take your running to the next level. |
| 1:24.4 | Because the more you understand the sport, |
| 1:26.8 | the better decisions you'll make about your training. |
| 1:29.7 | Don't miss our other 157 episodes of the podcast our video channel at YouTube.com slash |
| 1:37.1 | strength running or where it all began strength running dot com where you can |
| 1:41.8 | find all of our training programs that help you prevent injuries, |
| 1:45.4 | run faster, develop mental skills, or become a stronger, more powerful athlete. |
| 1:51.4 | This episode was created with support from Path Projects, a brand of premium, durable running gear that I wear on a nearly daily basis. |
| 2:01.0 | The quality is outstanding and the prices are affordable. See all of their |
| 2:05.2 | running gear at path projects.com. All right, my guest today is Hoka Elite Runner Tyler Andrews. I had Tyler on the podcast a few years ago. He was getting |
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