210. Why Strides Work, Supershoe Tech Review for the Trails, History at NCAA Champs, Parker Valby's Dominance, and AI Songs!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

We put on some bouncy shoes for optimal energy return before this great episode! The main training discussion was a new study on a speed protocol that caused major improvements in high-level runners. We zoom out to discuss other studies that have similar findings, including one that provided a theory for mechanisms in slow-twitch muscle fibers. There is one thing almost every endurance athlete should be doing--short speed/hill repeats under 30 seconds. It's wild how simple it can be!

Before that, we got to share amazing news: we just got our hands on a trail supershoe that seems to channel the tech that changed the game in road running. The Adidas Terrex Agravic Speed Ultra is soft underfoot and built-up like its road counterparts, and it'll feel familiar to anyone who has had the silky smooth feeling of going fast in the new generation of shoes. We have some gripes (what is up with that sizing? Are they stable/durable?), but mostly we are excited about what it might mean for the future once this tech approach trickles down across the sport, including to training shoes.

And this episode was full of amazing topics! Other topics: matching outfits, the fun of track coaching, why trail shoes are lagging behind, what the future might hold for shoes based on the timeline from roads, running economy improvements after speed-based interventions, how to incorporate strides into a training plan, "delivering the message" in ultras, On sponsoring Zendaya, Allie Ostrander's win at the Portland Track Festival and why we think it's one of the best stories in sports, Shane Cohen's breakthrough win at the NCAA Champs, Parker Valby's dominance (and shoe craftsmanship), an AI song from a listener (plus other AI thoughts), a study on potential mitochondria-based changes from sodium bicarbonate, and hot takes.

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0:00.0	Whoa! Welcome to the Some Work All Play podcast. We are so happy to you with you today.
0:04.8	Happy Tuesday! It's Tuesday! And I'm feeling a straight fire over here on this Tuesday.
0:09.1	You're feeling fire. Where's that coming from?
0:11.1	Actually, I'm feeling like a dumpster fire but you are
0:13.5	bringing like real hot fire because you have an orange singlet, orange shorts, orange
0:18.3	shoes, it's like an orange situation that is a good party. Do you think I did it
0:21.6	intentionally? That's the big question I have for you. Do you do any fashion intentionally? It's the big question I have for you. Absolutely not. But it works. It looks good. Yeah. You have a Corros arm band, tan line to match it.
0:33.2	And it's a good look.
0:34.6	Well, first, you're wrong.
0:36.1	I am unexpected, I contained multitudes.
0:38.5	I was wearing orange shorts, and then I put on orange shoes.
0:41.6	And I was like, you know what, orange shirt, just go for it.
0:44.7	So number one, number two, my Corros armband hand is intense right now.
0:48.8	I thought I put on enough sunscreen, but like under the armband it's just pure translucent it's
0:54.1	Casper the ghost and then around it's like normal skin for me so how do you think it
0:58.4	looks I feel like it kind of looks strange would people know what that is I really
1:01.4	like it I feel like they will especially in
1:03.0	Boulder because I've been walking around town so on Friday I went to Pearl Street and I think I saw
1:06.3	like two or three arm band tan lines and I was like the real ones those are the real
1:11.6	athletes out here and so I think it's a good signature. You've been training enough to get an arm band. That's how I know I moved to the right place. It's like I feel included here with my really weird dorkiness. But then with orange I've got it decked out. I'm going to illustrate it for the
1:25.0	listeners. Orange shoes, the Adidas Agrievic speed alter that we're about to talk about and do a bigger topic on,
1:30.3	then the John G shorts, the most magical shorts, but then on top is a Western States singlet I think was made by rabbit and hoko one year that has a bunch of the cougars on it just that are given to the winner of the race and they're all over the shirt so I am bringing
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