Ep 420 8 Things Ultrarunners Should Do to Improve Their Training - Coach Jason Koop

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Ultramarathon, Fitness, Running, Community, Health & Fitness, Trail, Endurance, Trails, Sports

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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CTS Training Director, Jason Koop, joins The Nation to talk about his recent Tweet:

Check out Jason's book, "Training Essentials for Ultrarunning"

Jason Koop is the Head Coach for CTS-Ultrarunning. He is the author of ‘Training Essentials for Ultrarunning’ which has become the benchmark book for ultramarathon training. During his coaching career, he has managed over 100 endurance coaches and several hundred atheltes of all types, abilities and sports. He is coach to many of today’s top ultramarathon athletes including Dylan Bowman, Kaci Lickteig, Timothy Olson, Stephanie Violett, Dakota Jones, Kelly Wolf and many others. He is also an accomplished ultrarunner in his own right having finishes in some of the most difficult races on the planet including the Badwater 135, Hardrock 100, Leadville Trail 100, Wasatch 100, Bear 100 and Western States 100

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0:00.0	Hey, Scott, we're really, really excited about Ragnar Relay, and you know why?
0:07.6	Why?
0:08.6	Well, because there are a lot of fun, and I know about Ragnar, they include, they include
0:12.8	running.
0:13.8	You've run a Ragnar.
0:14.8	I have run a Ragnar over in Napa, California, but you know who knows more about Ragnar's
0:18.0	than we do?
0:19.0	David Bohr.
0:20.0	That's right.
0:21.0	David, welcome to the podcast.
0:22.0	Yeah, good to be here.
0:23.0	Thanks.
0:24.0	So, we're teaming up with Ragnar, and we are happy to talk about trail Ragnar stuff and
0:29.7	a free entry for some lucky team, and we'll get into that detail shortly.
0:34.1	First of all, Dave, I didn't know that Ragnar had trail runs.
0:37.7	I mean, most of the ones, the one that I ran and the ones that I know my friends have
0:41.7	run, are road runs.
0:44.7	When did the trail, when did you guys get into trail running?
0:47.7	Yeah, so around 2012, we did a little experiment to try and get our races a little more dirty,
0:57.0	and that went really well.
0:58.0	In 2013, we kicked off our first season, so we're going into our seventh season on trail
1:03.3	now.
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