AMR Trains: Running Cadence 101
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got the beat on this one—we’re talking all about running cadence, so if you’re often injured or are looking for a little free speed, tune in!
Dimity talks to Coaches Jennifer Harrison and Elizabeth Waterstraat about why most runners would benefit from paying attention to their running cadence.
The trio discuss:
—The value of having your foot be on the ground for less time;
—How to measure running cadence either manually or using a GPS;
—Why 164 steps per minute—not the mythical 180—is a great goal for most of us; and
—Ways to (patiently) work on your cadence, including music.
Play with Running Cadence Playlist
Song 1: Mr. Brightside: 148 bpm
Song 2: Don’t Stop Me Now: 160 bpm
Song 3: This Too Shall Pass: 160 bpm
Song 4: But It’s Better If You Do: 170 bpm
Song 5: Happy: 160 bpm
Song 6: Dancing with Myself: 180 bpm
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and endurance sports. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Dimitri McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 0:37.4 | And today, we're like the go-go's or this metronome. |
| 0:40.5 | We got the beat, right? All right, I'll turn it off. It's annoying. |
| 0:44.8 | Actually, we're going to talk in depth about cadence or the number of times your feet hit |
| 0:49.2 | the ground in a minute when you're running. There are a lot of ideas about cadence floating |
| 0:53.6 | around there, floating around out there on the inner web, and we want to know what's useful and |
| 0:58.3 | what's not. So helping us here today are trained like a mother, coaches, Jennifer Harrison and Elizabeth |
| 1:04.5 | Waterstrat. They are going to help us break things down from 180 all the way down to maybe not |
| 1:10.5 | your walking cadence, but you'll have a much better understanding of the beat once we're done |
| 1:15.8 | with this podcast. So welcome, ladies. Thank you. Hi, so last time we met in this bar, |
| 1:24.0 | we were all about race reports. And Jen, I know you have an update for us. So before we dive into |
| 1:30.0 | cadence, I want to hear about your see the ending race. My season ending race, which was inspired |
| 1:36.9 | actually kind of by Elizabeth, because it was like, just do it, which was awesome. Sometimes |
| 1:41.6 | you just need to kick an ass. Yeah, no, I race draft legal nationals in Tempe, Elizabeth did it |
| 1:47.1 | last year, and she loved it. And she didn't do it this year, but she came down to support. She had |
| 1:53.0 | some other athletes down there and her husband. And so I did draft legal nationals sprint in Tempe, |
| 1:59.2 | and I loved it. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. And so draft legal means that you get to draft |
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