EP 541: Improving Performance Through the Aggregation of Marginal Gains
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Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Adam Kimble and Strava Co-Founder, Mark Gainey, were recently talking about Eliud Kipchoge's attempt at the sub 2-hour marathon. They focused on every little detail that his team worked on improving. These small improvements can make a big difference. How can we implement this strategy in our lives?
British Cycling Team Performance Director, Dave Brailsford, did this with the team back in 2003 turning their mediocre winless team into a powerhouse of competitors with his philosophy of the "aggregation of marginal gains": tiny margins of improvement in everything they did.

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| 0:00.0 | I think one of the beauties about the aggregation of marginal gains is that applies to both |
| 0:08.4 | how you can improve, you know, throughout a race, throughout your training, all those |
| 0:11.7 | kind of things. |
| 0:12.7 | But it's also the mentality that's focusing on the mile that you're in, rather than |
| 0:17.4 | trying to change 70% of something, change 1%, rather than focusing on how am I going to |
| 0:23.0 | feel when I get to mile 70, worry about where you're at at mile 20, you know, it's taking |
| 0:27.2 | those small increments and breaking things down into digestible pieces. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to the trailhead of trailreder nation where we go for virtual runs with experts that |
| 0:40.8 | teaches how to become better runners and possibly better humans. |
| 0:44.8 | And that expert today is Adam Kimball and he's going to share his philosophy that it's |
| 0:50.0 | the little things that add up to big changes. |
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