All About Pacing with Matt Fitzgerald

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This is a fascinating, must-listen episode for all runners, regardless of whether you run races. The topic is pacing—in races and in workouts—and the guest is Matt Fitzgerald, a running coach, multi-time marathoner, and an author of 30+ books including How to Run the Perfect Race. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Coach Liz Waterstraat, Matt tells: -how pacing is the art of finding your limit; -how to “gamify” your runs to hone your perception of pace; -about his 4+-year struggle with Long COVID; -why relying on a GPS can be detrimental; and, -the secrets of remaining steady with running. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Run Richmond: Use code AMR2VA for $10 off marathon or half at RichmondMarathon.org Sports nutrition simplified: Get a 10% lifetime discount at fuelgoods.com/AMR See for yourself: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2024 at TifosiOptics.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for the support of the Allions Richmond Marathon, which also features the
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0:50.0	Tofosioptics.com. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm joined by Liz Waterstrait. Hello Liz.
1:12.1	Hello Liz. Hi Sarah. Oh my goodness I took the most lovely run this morning.
1:18.4	Did you? I did I did I woke up far earlier than my alarm and I think this might be the earliest I've gone
1:26.5	running since possibly before the pandemic so yeah yeah and I'd I'd forgotten really how delightful and early morning run is. Yeah. You don't often run in early in the morning do you?
1:40.8	Rarely because that is my husband's time slot to do whatever he wants.
1:46.0	But occasionally I'll be out there and I'll tell you it's it's rough for the first two miles isn't it?
1:52.0	Hmm. Huh, no, I just, I really loved the lack of cars, the cooler air, you know, as we record this on July 10th where the Pacific Northwest is still under a heat dome.
2:07.2	And yeah, no, my workout was to, you know, following the 13.1 race it planned to do the Portland Half Marathon.
2:14.8	My workout was a two mile warm-up and then one times one mile at tempo with a
2:21.4	quarter mile recovery in between and then one mile cool down.
2:25.1	So the two miles, I usually find I can hit a groove pretty much by the end of mile one.
2:33.0	Wow.
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