217. Microbiome and Performance, Hydration with Electrolytes, Easy and Hard Training Doses, Keeping Running Weird, Sky-High VO2 Max, and Exploring Talent!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

We brought hearts full of love to this episode! We start by remembering the amazing Maddie Giegold, an ultrarunner and doctor who passed away suddenly several days before finishing her medical residency. Maddie was so full of life and love. The Universe will always be brighter because she was here.

The main science topic was on data connecting microbiome composition to athletic performance, which companies are now racing to develop into supplements. The more research is done, the more we are seeing that gut health is tied to every aspect of health and performance. Will there be a future where we can take a personalized pill to optimize our brain and body via the microbiome? The jury is out on that question. In the meantime, there will be poop jokes.

We also talked about studies that compare stress from easy training and higher-intensity training. How much more stressful is harder exercise? The answer has major implications for how we think about intensity distribution.

And there were tons more great topics! Other topics: quad soreness from downhill running, Leadville 100 training, the importance of electrolytes in hydration approaches, core work "snacks," Kristian Blummenfelt reportedly moving to cycling in 2025, what we think about suspiciously high VO2 max numbers, why we loved the Opening Ceremony at the Olympics, stories from the Olympics so far, why running should embrace "weirdness" of terrain and outcomes, a study on genetic variation and red blood cell counts, implications for what we call "talent," a follow-up on cardiac output, and hot takes.

Let's all yell "woohoo" extra loud today, for Maddie. We love you Maddie, and we will miss you forever.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Summer Work All Play Podcast. We are so happy to with you today.
0:04.7	And we're bringing a lot of love and also a little bit of hard news on this Tuesday
0:08.3	about a swap athlete and an amazing, amazing person within our community.
0:12.8	Yeah, so we recorded a whole episode and then got some of the hardest news we've ever
0:16.1	gotten before.
0:17.5	And so we wanted to do a little tribute to start this episode to Mad Giegled, an absolutely
0:22.0	incredible person who passed away.
0:25.0	And absolute shock, she's one of the best people we've ever met.
0:30.1	This will touch so, so many people far and wide who got to meet her and we just wanted to put love out into the universe for Maddie and everyone she touched.
0:38.4	I've gotten to coach Maddie now for more than eight years. She was actually 10 days away from day 3,000 on her training log and just the amount that she has
0:46.6	changed my life and my life and the lives of other people. I remember the first time meeting her in
0:51.8	person and she just came running from like a hundred yards away like
0:56.2	Sprinting with arms in the air and it was just such an embodiment of who she is and who she was as a person and how she showed up for people and if you've ever met
1:05.9	Maddie like you feel like you're her best friend and I know I feel that way I know so many
1:10.5	people out there feel that way and Maddie was a days away from
1:14.4	finishing her emergency medicine residency program was gonna head to Seattle and
1:18.3	had so much beautiful life ahead of her but she's truly like through
1:21.8	her work through inclusion and advocacy
1:24.3	Intra running as well as like medical direction and the medical focus has touched so many lives
1:29.1	She's the definition of life force and the reason we still started out with
1:33.0	Wuhu in this little addendum at the start of the episode. I know I made you I was like
1:36.7	this is for Maddie because one she was an avid podcast listener but two because like
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