519 Blue Benadum elite marathoner and running coach

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Health & Fitness, Sprinting, Functional, Crossfit, Weightlifting, Fitness, Gymnastics, Crossfitgames

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Blue Benadum is an elite marathoner, running coach and multi-sport athlete from Malibu, California. He is the “go to” marathon coach in Los Angeles and has guided many of the Entertainment Industry’s most high profile clients to success in the marathon. Blue is a running technician and specializes in mastering the mechanics of movement. He has contributed his expertise to some of sports biggest brands over the last decade and a half and is tireless in the pursuit of unlocking potential in “could be” runners. Blue and his wife Cassidy co-founded Guru Running in 2021, a company that designs comprehensive sport and life planning for athletes to achieve their health, wellness and performance goals. When Blue isn’t out on some epic adventure with his family or friends, he can be found training, running, surfing and doing run form analysis’s for runners all over LA.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Wadcast podcast. I'm your host, Eddie Ift. And here
0:08.4	we are again, a new week, new things going on. This is a show about a lot of things, mostly
0:16.1	CrossFit. We, something is CrossFit related. This week we have a guest who is a long distance
0:23.8	runner, marathon runner, elite marathon runner. And he also has a CrossFit background. So
0:31.0	that's where I go. I try to find something, all things fitness health, things that will
0:35.8	help you in your world of fitness and health and your journey through all of this. Maybe
0:45.8	it's some expertise somewhere, something that can help you, or maybe it's something
0:51.1	that just entertains you. But we talk everything from nutrition, to strength, to conditioning,
0:57.0	to breathing. You name it. Anything that's going to make you healthier, stronger, faster,
1:03.5	we're doing it here. And we try to make it as entertaining as possible, because that's
1:07.9	what I do for a living. I'm a stand-up comedian. That's right. How did I find this? I don't
1:11.9	know. We all have a different journey. And mine has constantly been in the world of health
1:16.2	and fitness, former college athlete, and current amateur CrossFit. I also have a lot of hobbies
1:26.6	from surfing to mountain biking to skiing. And I like to be in shape, and I like to be
1:31.1	able to take care of my children, and they run me around like crazy. So whatever your
1:35.4	reason for doing it, I'm just glad you're doing it. And so today we have Blue Benadome,
1:44.6	our coach for Nike, excellent marathoner, claims he's retired. Who knows these guys
1:50.5	retire? They come back. Very, very interesting guy with an extensive background in outdoors,
1:57.8	from everything from rock climbing to surfing to Jiu-Jitsu, and CrossFit included. We're
2:04.8	going to get to that. Let's talk about me right now. I'm a comedian. I perform live.
2:10.6	And I do the show because I like to entertain you. If you find me entertaining, come see me
2:15.2	live. I am off this week, apparently. Well, I probably will have shows, but they come
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