Breaking the 1:59 marathon with Dr. Phil Maffetone
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phil Maffetone joins TRN to talk about his new
book, "1:59:The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within
Reach—Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can
Teach All Runners about”
Although 90% of us are not going to be in contention of running that fast, each of us has our own “1:59”: getting in better shape, finishing a ½ marathon, running without injury for a long time, breaking a 24-hour 100-miler, etc.
Dr. Phil explains that there are small improvements that we can make that will allow us to attain our ultimate goals.
Get the book HERE
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast brought you by Petzel, the leaders, the leaders in the light industry. |
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| 0:22.4 | Oh, God, when am I going to learn? |
| 0:25.7 | You know, it is the holiday season coming up. |
| 0:28.7 | What a better gift to give your running friend, partner, or associate than the gift of |
| 0:37.9 | running to elongate that winter season for those of us in the northern hemisphere are |
| 0:44.8 | and those of us in the backward world that still believe in daylight savings time. |
| 0:49.3 | It shrunk our day. |
| 0:51.3 | We don't have as much light in the day. |
| 0:52.8 | And so that shrinks our training, uh, uh, possibly the number of hours we can train with |
| 0:57.2 | Petzel, that hurdle is eliminated. |
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| 1:07.2 | And you said gift. |
| 1:08.2 | You said gift to friend, gift a running partner, gift someone that you care about. |
| 1:12.3 | But how about mother earth? |
| 1:14.4 | Because you're not throwing away batteries and discarding them as non-recyclable, recyclable, |
| 1:22.4 | recyclable. |
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| 1:28.2 | You know, I thought there was a bunch of hui when you first brought that up, but I have, |
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