220 Ask Matt Anything on Running - Are You on the Niggle Bus?
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another "Ask Matt Anything" edition of the Purple Patch Podcast. In this episode, Matt answers your voicemails and emails on all topics related to run performance.
In this installment, Matt answers questions related to:
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Running with a high heart rate
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Coming back from injury
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Dealing with the incessant niggles
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Fostering a lifelong love of running potential in children
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Arriving on race day injury-free and ready to run healthy
Episode Timestamps
0:00-02:10 Welcome and Episode Introduction
02:10-The Meat and Potatoes
02:10 -Question 1 from Brett: I tend to succumb to injuries with the required running mileage in a leadup to IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3. I have heard you talk about the multisport approach for run performance and I’m a bit skeptical. I’d love insights on how I might think about these coming months into race day to help me arrive healthily, but also race-ready.
13:12 - Question 2 from Carol: Any tips on helping my child get the most out of her running potential?
22:11 - Question 3 from Van: I’m coming back from a fractured tibia and I still feel residual pain and discomfort in the area, mostly to the touch but not during exercise. Is that relatively normal on the return from running?
29:22 - Question 4 from Theo: I feel like my heart rate is much higher than most people. When I'm doing a very easy effort, my heart rate will still read 165-175, even creep up to 180. My max heart rate is just under 200. And so my question is, when it comes to zone two running, or easy, long runs, should I really be forcing myself to stay in what is calculated as zone two? I'm 29 years old. Or, is it okay to stay out of that range and go a little bit more off of perceived exertion?
36:58 - Question 5 from Alice: What do you do when you're on the niggle bus? And by that, I mean, constantly wrestling with minor pre-injuries?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.4 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.2 | integrate sport into life. Hey guys, Matt here and a little bit of fun today. |
| 0:24.4 | I am going to hand off the microphone to our producer, Kerry Barrett, who is going to |
| 0:30.7 | ask some questions and lead me through another episode of Ask Matt Anything. |
| 0:36.3 | And it's all focused around running today, which is really fun. |
| 0:39.5 | So I get to have a little bit of an easier journey today, I've got to say, but I will be providing |
| 0:44.7 | the goodness. We've got some great cracking questions. Now, one thing before we do get going, |
| 0:49.9 | I want to ask a favour. If you love this education and the education that we get to bring to you free, |
| 0:56.5 | it would be really, really nice of you, |
| 0:58.8 | as if you could give us a really nice little review, |
| 1:00.9 | but also share it with your friends and encourage them to follow |
| 1:04.6 | or subscribe to the show wherever you like to listen to your podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | It really helps other people find the show and allows us |
| 1:13.2 | to spread the good word. Anyway, I will hand off the mic to Kerry and say, I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 1:21.5 | It's the Purple Patch podcast. Thank you, Matt. And as he mentioned, my name is Carrie Barrett, |
| 1:27.2 | the longtime producer of the Purple Patch podcast. And over the last four to five weeks or so, Matt has been asking for your questions as it relates to running. And as usual, you did not disappoint. So today we feature a multiple array of questions as it relates to running in |
| 1:47.7 | triathlon, coming back from injury, how to even develop a child's love of running in a healthy way, |
| 1:55.9 | and maybe even a little skepticism about that whole run-walk, multi-sport approach to running. |
| 2:04.7 | So in fact, why don't we just kick it off with that question, which comes from Brett in |
| 2:10.9 | Columbus, Ohio. |
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