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EP 426: Training the Uphill Athlete - Scott Johnston

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

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How does Killian Jornet train? Scott Johnston, a world class athlete and experienced coach teams up with two of the world's most experienced mountain athletes to help teach us the keys to training. Training the Uphill Athlete is the new book by Scott, Steve House and Killian Jornet. Scott discusses the keys to training for endurance and mountain performance.

Check out their website, Uphill Athlete, is a great resource of knowledge with over 240 articles, coaching, training plans, etc.

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0:00.0

Pathprojects.com I'm sitting here in front of you, Scott, wearing my favorite hoodie.

0:13.8

Yeah, the, the Pyrenees. It's the lightweight one because it's springtime. You don't need

0:17.6

the heavyweight one. But I'm not going to show you what I have below because I'm wearing

0:20.6

the Sykes PX, the five inch or the seven. It's your choice. They're great or the graves.

0:25.4

You know, that big zip pocket in the back. You could put your full size cell phone in

0:29.4

and the beautiful thing about it. It rides back there and I have to check every once

0:33.0

while to see if I still have it because it's a silent passenger or the Prospect PX2.

0:39.2

They're a gym short. You need a extra room. You need a little extra length. That's the

0:43.8

one you buy. Hey, don't forget about the Bram Ft, which is the one that you can go from

0:49.3

the trail directly to brunch. Oh, is that the Ft stance from the trail? I love it, Scott.

0:55.4

I wonder what that's for. All of these shorts are liner less. So you get the base layer.

1:01.5

They're one of the advantages I was thinking about the other day is if you need to change

1:05.6

clothes in the parking lot, you don't have to get naked. Well, Scott, you need to take

1:10.4

that base liner off because that's what the action happens. So I'm not so sure that

1:14.4

theory holds true. But what is nice is you can go ahead and take those shorts off, wear

1:19.1

them the second day because you just have to change the baseline. Everybody's talking

1:23.4

about it. They're winning awards all over the place for the gear of the year. You need

1:27.5

to find out how and why by going to pathprojects.com, get yourself some gear or go to our partners

1:35.0

page, click on the path project span. Run ragnar.com slash TRN. That's where you can find out

1:42.1

about the Ragnar Trail series. Scott, you know what I think of when I pull up to a traffic

1:46.5

signal? No, I think of Ragnar Trail because there's three colors. Green, yellow, and red.

1:52.7

Those are the three colors of the loops. If you, there's three ways to compete in this

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