302. Mailbag Episode! The Fastest Shoe, Our Dream Study, Improving Testosterone Levels, Heat Training, Upper Body Lifting, and Lots More
Some Work, All Play
David Roche and Megan Roche
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We wore the best shoe ever before this mailbag episode! We opened it up to listener questions, diving into tons of tricky and fun topics.
Topics this week: David’s first run in the shoe that’s changing road running, our eventful weekend, Omega 3 supplementation, the types of heat training we like, our dream study design involving bicarb and fatigue resistance, leptin levels, upper body lifting, improving low testosterone levels, coaching specialization, helping a teammate with REDs, treadmill training, building up volume, rest intervals, preparing for summer heat, and more!
Thank you for getting us off the floor for this episode. We love you all! HUZZAH!
-David and Megan
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| 0:00.0 | Woohoo. Welcome to the Some Work All Play podcast. We are so happy with you today. |
| 0:04.4 | Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And we're working on our Strava masterpieces on this Tuesday. |
| 0:09.1 | Oh, yes. Our Strava has taken a slightly different tone this week, hasn't it? |
| 0:14.0 | You've been throwing down some good stuff. Your title today, I believe, was Little Bitch Boy, the musical. |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. |
| 0:21.6 | And the subtitle was from Bo Burnham's Outside. I'm not really feeling like I want to get lit. Tell us how you feeling. I'm feeling like shit. I saw you at the window, though. You were running fast. Was I? You had the Puma R3s on. Yeah. Like, if you're feeling like shit, maybe don't put the Puma R3s on. |
| 0:37.1 | Well, before we get to our really crappy week, I want to mention these shoes. So I finally wore the Puma R3s. I think it was the top study that we had last year, was the study looking at running economy gains in these shoes. They are fundamentally game-changing. Like, I truly felt horrible, as you're going to hear about in a second. |
| 0:57.9 | And my paces, when I was going fast, were really quick. |
| 1:00.7 | And the shoes are very light, but also very supportive. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm like, oh, my gosh, anyone that runs for Puma is ahead of the game. |
| 1:07.4 | So if you can get your hands on Puma R3s for if you're a roadrunner, |
| 1:09.6 | it is absolutely 100% worth it. |
| 1:11.3 | No shoe that I've worn is caught up yet. |
| 1:30.7 | What made you put them on? Like, why have you been sitting on them? What were you doing? Megan, I haven't been sitting on the shoes. I've only been sitting on toilets. That's all I've been doing. No, because I got them right before the injury last year. So I never got a chance to wear them. And then I heard that they're, you know, kind of minimal, so maybe more stress on the planter. |
| 1:27.6 | So I was waiting to wear them. And then I heard that they're, you know, kind of minimal, so maybe more stress on the plantar. So I was waiting to wear them. |
| 1:31.8 | They actually activate my plantar. And you put them on this morning and they're like, Megan, |
| 1:34.9 | they feel good. They feel good. For some reason, it offloads right on that spot. If I could wear |
| 1:38.3 | them for everything, I would. And in fact, maybe I will. Maybe I'm going to take these to trails. They do have an exposed carbon |
| 1:44.5 | plate. So I assume if you took them to trails, they would literally crack in half. But I might try it. It might be worth it for me. We could provide some like outside covering to that exposed carbon plate and just put you in them for canyons and fucking send it. Just send it. Yeah. Okay, you're figuring out a way to get me back to Cannons. |
| 2:00.8 | We've got to build the hype. |
| 2:02.8 | You've been a little bit of a sad boy this week. |
| 2:04.6 | So have you. Yeah. Okay, you're figuring out a way to get me back to Cannons. We got to build the hype. |
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