E39: Andrew Kastor - Deena’s Coach & Husband

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest needs no introduction to Deena - he’s her coach, her husband, and now a Boston Marathon qualifier after an admirable performance in LA.

It’s a joy to catch up with Coach Kastor fresh from his 3 hour and 13 minute run as he shares the unique experience of coaching himself, his best recovery tips, and how to prepare your training cycle for a marathon far into the future.

Elsewhere in the show we spotlight a stacked field for the upcoming London Marathon, and in Training Talk we guide you through the do’s and don’ts of the final phase of your training.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:45 - Deena and Martin catch up on the last two weeks, from the LA Marathon and speaking at UCLA, to Martin’s Purbeck Loop and a sweary sheep-herding story, plus coverage of a staggering new World Record
9:50 - We bring the latest on a London Marathon field that’s absolutely stacked with elite runners, and a men’s lineup which will bring us a first-time champion
20:00 - Training Talk this week focuses on the do’s and don’ts in the late stages of prep, why ‘less is best’ at this point, and the unexpected power of doing a ‘kit lay’
29:10 - Deena’s coach and husband, Andrew Kastor, takes us through his recent LA Marathon experience, how he coaches himself through races, his top recovery advice, and how to build a training schedule to target a marathon 12 months out

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 39 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors. On this show we take a look at the elite fields
0:09.2	announced last week for the TCS London Marathon including a red-hot women's race.
0:15.8	With less than four weeks to go until Boston and less than five weeks to go to London,
0:20.8	we'll dig into the final stages of preparation for these important
0:24.8	spring races and this week's special guest is a man who just made Dina incredibly
0:32.3	proud as she watched him crush the LA Marathon at the weekend.
0:38.5	Right, let's go. Dina, what have you been up to?
0:45.0	Oh man, it has been a busy couple of weeks, but this weekend in particular
0:51.6	as the LA marathon presented by A6 went off and I over obligated
0:56.4	myself that weekend but as I was working commentary for the local station KTLA I was also obsessively refreshing my app to track my husband and his his
1:08.7	dream of qualifying for Boston and we all know from watching people try attempt weekend after weekend it is not an easy feat but he was able to crack under that under that five minutes under the qualifying that people had to be in order to get accepted into Boston because it was such a competitive year.
1:37.5	So he gave himself a little buffer, so fingers crossed.
1:41.5	He's well enough under that necessary time to be able to toe the line.
1:46.4	So I was super proud of him, really excited, but a great race.
1:50.1	The sun was out.
1:51.0	It was a typical, like beautiful day in Los Angeles for the runners.
1:55.8	Now we're going to hear of course directly from Andrew later on in the show I'm really excited
2:01.5	about the interview.
2:03.0	Now, of course it's very different, isn't it?
2:06.0	For many years, it's been Andrew watching you,
2:08.0	you know, and Andrew's kind of supporting your running
2:12.0	and here, of course course you're supporting Andrew. So what was that like?
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