172. Off-Season Training: What to do In-Between Seasons
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This episode is all about the off-season. The "in between" time between seasons of running. You'll learn how to best structure this time based on your goals, weaknesses, and ability.
This episode was the suggestion from a listener. He asked if I could talk about what runners should do after they run a marathon but before they start their next big training block. Now, whether you’re training for a marathon or any distance race, this is a great question.
A good example is what to do after the Boston Marathon but before you start training for the NYC marathon. If you train for 16 weeks for New York, that puts the beginning of your training in late July. Assuming you take a full two weeks off from running after Boston, you’re left with 11 weeks. What do you do with that time period?
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set go. |
| 0:04.0 | This is episode 172 all about the off season. |
| 0:08.0 | That frustrating time after a big race, but before your next training cycle begins. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the strength-running podcast. I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald and the |
| 0:26.4 | episode you're about to listen to is a listener requested topic. We're going to |
| 0:30.5 | discuss the off-season or in other words, that time in between seasons, |
| 0:34.9 | when it can be confusing to know what to do. So let's say you ran the Boston Marathon in April |
| 0:40.9 | and you plan to start training for a fall marathon in July. What do you do with those in-between months? |
| 0:46.9 | Before we start, I would like to thank you, yes you, for making the strength-running podcast |
| 0:55.4 | consistently the number one or number two most popular running podcast in the country. I so appreciate you and what I do here on the |
| 1:02.0 | podcast is bring you the thought leaders in the running industry, the coaches, the psychologists, elite runners, dieticians and therapists who can help you elevate your performances. |
| 1:14.0 | While you have to do the work, my goal is to show you the most strategic ways to do that work, |
| 1:18.7 | to work smarter and more productively, so you can take your running to the next level. |
| 1:23.0 | Because if you better understand running, |
| 1:25.0 | if you recognize knowledge as a competitive advantage, |
| 1:29.0 | you'll make better decisions about your training, |
| 1:31.0 | leading to more effective running, fewer injuries, and of course, faster races. |
| 1:37.0 | Don't miss all of our other resources that can help you bring your running to the next level. |
| 1:42.0 | We have a video channel at YouTube.com |
| 1:44.3 | slash strength running where I answer all your questions. I show you effective |
| 1:49.1 | strength and core routines and talk through your most pressing training issues. And of course our home base is |
| 1:56.0 | strength running.com. For more than 10 years we've been helping runners level up their |
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