EP 668: Running with Science
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Scott and Don play a type of true or false game with frequent guest Alex Hutchinson. Play along as Scott and Don try to predict the outcomes or findings of the article without reading it. They discuss various articles that Alex has written about in his Outside Online column, Sweat Science about and reveal whether they are true or false. We discuss various topics related to running, including foot core training, altitude training, and the durability of super shoes.
Here are the articles we discussed:
- Can Strength Training Protect You from Running Injuries?
- Running's Latest Secret Brain Ingredient is Oxytocin
- How Long do Super Shoes Last?
- 10 Rules for Altitude Training
Check out Alex's web site
If you haven't read one of the best books for runners, "Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance", you need to follow these steps:
- Buy and read the book
- Listen to Part 1 - where we talk about the Unforgiving Minute, The Conscience Quitter, Heat, and Belief
- Listen to Part 2 - where we talk about the Central Governor Thoery, Pain and Training the Brain
- Listen to Part 3 - where we talk about Oxygen, Fuel, and Zapping the Brain
- Listen to Part 4 -our first Episode with Alex where he comes on and talks about the entire book
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'll all roads lead to the foot DOMA Olympics if you've seen an elite, but DOMA, you've seen |
| 0:09.0 | it all. |
| 0:10.0 | And it's impressive. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the trailhead of trail runner nation. |
| 0:25.7 | We go on virtual trail runs with our friends you and we invite special guests that are |
| 0:32.1 | going to inspire us, that are going to motivate us and they're going to give us information |
| 0:37.4 | that are going to help us become better runners and possibly better human beings. |
| 0:42.3 | And today we find out exactly how we can become better runners and better human beings with |
| 0:47.6 | Alex Hutchinson through science. |
| 0:50.6 | So before we get going, I want to tell you about the John G new mountain running collection. |
| 0:56.5 | Don, I don't know if you've been getting the emails from John G once you subscribe on |
| 0:59.9 | their website, but their new pattern, the mountain running pattern is fantastic. |
| 1:06.7 | And I'll tell you, they're just good looking gear. |
| 1:09.5 | So they taken that that pattern like they do every, every season and they put it in all |
| 1:15.4 | of their different good gear like their vests and their shorts and their shirts. |
| 1:21.0 | Go check it out at John G dot com. |
| 1:23.9 | The first person to notice it will be you when you look at yourself in the mirror and |
| 1:28.0 | the next person to notice will be the folks on the trail because they don't go unseen. |
| 1:34.1 | If you want to discount, go to our deals page and look at the John G discount code. |
| 1:39.1 | And you know, Scott, we always like to tease a little bit for a podcast coming up next |
| 1:43.2 | week. |
| 1:44.2 | We are excited about this one. |
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