237. The Wild Connection of Top Speed and Endurance, Plus "No Secrets" on Supplements, Mental Toughness, AI in Sport, and Cold Plunges!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We bowed down to the power of hot mugwort before this amazing episode! The main topic was on a study that may be the long-lost "missing link" in our training theory. It took 12 elite endurance runners and had them do sprints of 100 meters and 400 meters, along with a VO2 max test. Their findings (and one striking non-finding) may connect studies on speed interventions with real-world implications.

We also answered listener questions in the "no secrets" style! The most hairy question was on a topic that people don't talk about too much in public: supplements. We say what we take and why we take it, with a million disclaimers because we're cool like that.

And this one was full of the best topics! Other topics: takeaways from Strava's Year in Sport, why an experience this week may influence how we think about training theory, the cost of the Western States 100, year-end voting, how fueling and hydration are letting people race more, AI use cases for athletes, our thoughts on cold plunges, a framework for mental toughness, nose strips in poker, the evolution of shoes, and Listener Corner.

In the episode, we talk about a video we saw where champion triathlete Lionel Sanders had his treadmill directly in front of a photo of one of his competitors celebrating a victory. We're inspired. So if you hear some extra motivation in our voices, it's probably because we put a photo of the Smartless guys in front of the mic in our bedroom.

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0:21.4	Woohoo. Welcome to the Some Work All Play podcast. We are so happy to be with you today. Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And I'm feeling ready to run laps around the neighborhood on this Tuesday. Ready to run laps. You're very, very pregnant, Megan. And you're not running right now. So what are you talking about? I know. You're like, Megan, the baby's going to come out if that happens. I'm talking about the fact, actually, that the Strava year in sport came out. And I'm so inspired by all the segments on there. I'm like, I just want to run 200 times around our neighborhood and see what happens
0:25.1	for next year. Yeah, my year in sport is very, very interesting because I repeat the same route
0:30.2	basically every day. I don't know how this happened to me. I used to be the type of guy that would
0:35.2	plan out the most epic loops. I would do new routes every day,
0:39.0	especially when I started running. Actually, it was a point of contention in our relationships,
0:42.5	because I could just run back and forth. I could do out and backs. And you hated out and backs
0:46.3	to the point that you're like, Megan, we cannot do these. And I was like, what's wrong with you?
0:49.7	Well, you're the queen of out and backs followed by parking lot loops when we met. And this was even before GPS.
0:54.5	I don't know.
0:55.0	You're probably trying to get to a certain amount of time.
0:57.3	And I have become that type of basic bitch.
1:01.0	I do the same route almost every single day all year round.
1:04.6	And then my parking lot loops are neighborhood loops to the point that there's one segment in our neighborhood that runs from just past our
1:11.9	house to the far end.
1:14.1	Actually, it runs perfectly by my desk.
1:16.4	So I get to look out the window and see your workouts.
1:18.8	And it's like you're flaunting your feathers out there.
1:20.6	You're like how fast I am as you run past.
1:23.3	And slightly downhill, like one or two percent grade, which I love to encourage some quicker turnover.
1:28.4	And I ran it 178 times this year.
1:31.5	It's a kilometer long little segment.
1:34.6	So, yeah, I'm not sure exactly what our neighborhood thinks, but I'm not sure if that's a normal thing to do at this point.
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