190. New Coaching Call! How to Train For Your First Hilly Trail Race
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This episode features a coaching call about how to best prepare for a hilly trail race when you've never run one before. Even if you're not gearing up for trails or hills, this is a valuable discussion on sound training for different types of terrain.
Aileen is a member of Team Strength Running and has very little experience with hills or trails. But she wants to "go for it" and do her first very hilly trail race coming up soon.
How can she best prepare? What opportunities exist for building strength for hills and trails? What must her long runs and faster workouts look like?
As Aileen adds all new variables to this upcoming race, our goal is to make sure that she's not just physically prepared for the elevation changes and trails, but confident in her ability to do so.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go! |
| 0:04.9 | This is Episode 190 featuring a coaching call with a runner who's training for her first |
| 0:10.1 | very hilly trail race and how she can best prepare. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to the Strength Running Podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm your host, Coach Jason Fitzgerald, and the episode you're about to listen to features |
| 0:28.8 | a coaching call about how to best prepare for a hilly trail race when you've never |
| 0:33.4 | run one before. |
| 0:35.0 | Even if you're not gearing up for trails or hills, this is a valuable discussion on sound |
| 0:39.3 | training for different types of terrain. |
| 0:42.1 | But before we start, I want to make sure we're all wearing the same kit today. |
| 0:46.2 | On this show, you can expect conversations between me and the thought leaders in the running |
| 0:50.8 | industry to give you the knowledge, the mindsets, and the tools to get faster, stronger, and |
| 0:57.1 | become a more capable athlete. |
| 0:59.2 | Because if you better understand the process of improvement, when you recognize knowledge |
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| 1:25.5 | on a weekly basis. |
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| 1:32.8 | Since 2010, we've been helping runners level up their training, race faster, prevent more |
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