Achieving Your Potential and Wellness as an Older Runner with Running Legend Amby Burfoot
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Unlike runners in their 20s and 30s, older runners are often walking that tightrope between performance, potential and overall health and wellness.
Running is still a battle to perform your best, but we're also running for our health and overall well-being.
That's why we're thrilled to have legendary runner and writer Amby Burfoot on our podcast to discuss the key ingredients to running happy, maximizing potential, and staying healthy as we get older.
In this episode, we cover…
- What are the key ingredients to being a runner for life?
- Why do some runners "defy age" and what are their secrets?
- Once we realize that we can't run/train the way we could when we were younger, what's your advice for staying motivated?
- What are some of the most common mistakes runners make as they get older?
- What about nutrition needs for older runners? Does that need to change as well?
These answers and much, much more from one of the most influential runners and writers of the last few decades.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Amby Burfoot, and you're listening to the Run to the Top podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi there my running friend, this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner. |
| 0:23.2 | And this is the Run to the Top Podcast, |
| 0:25.5 | one of the first and only running podcast dedicated |
| 0:28.3 | to making you a better runner with each and every episode. |
| 0:31.9 | We are created and produced by the expert team |
| 0:34.6 | of running coaches at runnersconnect.net |
| 0:37.7 | where you can find the best running information on the internet |
| 0:41.0 | as well as running coaching plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:47.0 | If there's anything in life that comes close to the fountain of youth, it's regular exercise. |
| 0:56.0 | People who tend to live the longest and have the most life in their years aren't those that spend most of their time sitting around. They move. No, we can't |
| 1:05.2 | completely fight biology and turn in the same kind of performances as we could in |
| 1:09.8 | our younger years, but active runners will have a distinct advantage over their |
| 1:14.6 | stationary peers. A perfect example of this in action is the legendary |
| 1:20.2 | Andy Burfoot. The winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon, Amby is the |
| 1:26.2 | epitome of what many runners strive to become, active, healthy, sharp, and |
| 1:31.5 | still relevant in the running world at age 75. |
| 1:35.8 | He has been running and writing about running for over half a century, was the executive editor |
| 1:41.3 | for Runner's World magazine for nearly two decades, has written a half |
| 1:45.2 | a dozen running books, and continues to write a weekly column for podium runner. As impressive |
| 1:51.0 | as Amby has been on the roads, he's arguably even more influential today, |
| 1:55.7 | inspiring and educating runners to stay the course and become runners for life. |
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