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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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Just about every runner has made the mistake of going too fast on a recovery run and paid the price. There’s a lot of things that we know we should do as runners and still get them wrong.
Coach Jeff brings his years of coaching experience to the show to share why runners make these 5 easy to fix mistakes:
You might think this list looks basic, and you’d be right. Even veteran runners screw up the easy stuff sometimes and fixing them can help you to make massive performance gains.
Marathon training is hard, so don’t screw up the easy stuff.
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0:00.0 | I love all the sports. |
0:02.4 | And it's really funny when you see the athletes trying to come back from an injury, |
0:06.3 | especially like hockey and football where it's like, they're like, well, you know, he broke his ankle and he's going to try to come back this week. |
0:13.9 | You know, and you're like, why don't you just take a week off? |
0:17.2 | Like, big deal. |
0:17.9 | You miss the game. |
0:18.7 | It's, you know, whatever. And then my dad goes, |
0:21.0 | yeah, but you're the guy that, like, you know, rolled your ankle and then took 10 ibuprofen |
0:25.2 | to try to run the next day, you know? And I'm like, yeah, but, and so I think all of athletes |
0:29.9 | are wired that way. Like, we just don't want to stop. Running is hard. Really hard. It's one of the things I love about the sport too. You have to work hard for every PB and finish medal. |
0:41.4 | See, you would think that for us runners, it would be a piece of cake to keep recovery runs easy and take a day off when our aching bodies need it. |
0:48.2 | But no, I think we've all made these mistakes, and realistically probably more than once too. |
0:53.7 | This episode is meant as a reminder to not screw up the easy stuff, like recovery runs, and realistically, probably more than once too. This episode is meant as a reminder to not screw up the easy stuff, like recovery runs, |
0:58.6 | eating before your workout, and resisting the urge to go on a 10-mile run when your calf is so |
1:03.4 | tight you think it might burst. |
1:05.7 | All right, maybe the last one is a little specific, but I think you get the idea. |
1:09.3 | Joining me today is the founder of Runners Connect, coach Jeff Goddette. |
1:13.0 | He knows all the silly mistakes runners make through years of coaching, |
1:16.0 | and even by making them himself as an athlete. |
1:18.7 | There's a good chance you might listen to this entire episode |
1:21.2 | and still turn your easy run into a tempo from time to time. |
1:24.5 | I know I've been there. |
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