Episode 114: How Anna Mae Flynn Trains for Trail Ultramarathons

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Anna Mae is actually a recent entry into the world of ultramarathons. She debuted at the 2015 Way Too Cool 50k - only to have her finish time qualify as a top-10 all-time performance.

Today, her sponsors include:

HOKA ONE ONE
Suunto
Honey Stinger

She's the current course record holder (and 2019 winner) of the Speedgoat 50 Miler. You can usually find her exploring trails and mountains near her home in Marble, Colorado.

Anna Mae joins me on the Strength Running Podcast to discuss her training. Specifically, we talk about:

The (big) role cross-training plays in her ultramarathon preparation
How she mitigates and takes advantage of altitude
What a typical, heavy training day looks like for her
Her average weekly mileage and vertical gain
How she recovers after a 100 miler vs. a 50k ultra
Injury prevention strategies for ultra runners (and the rest of us!)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set go.
0:04.0	Welcome to episode 114 with the winner and
0:07.2	of course record holder of this year's Speedgoat 50K,
0:10.2	a fixture of the Colorado Ultra-trail running scene,
0:13.0	Ms. Animay Flynn.
0:27.2	Hello there and welcome to the Strength Running Podcast. I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald and it's my job to bring the world-class runners, coaches,
0:32.3	dieticians, sports psychologists physical therapists best-selling
0:37.0	authors and other industry leaders from the running world to you to help elevate your
0:42.1	running and bring your performances to the next level.
0:46.0	And last week I published an episode all about Fuelling featuring three Ultra Trail runners,
0:51.5	anime Flynn, Abbey Hall, and Abby Levine. Today we're doing a deep dive with
0:56.2	anime Flynn on the training that she does that's catapulted her to the top of the ultra
1:01.5	running scene. She's actually relatively new to
1:04.2	altas having started in 2015 but that debut was a top 10 all-time finish time at
1:10.4	the way too cool 50k. Now she's sponsored by Hoka One Onee, Honeystinger, and
1:16.1	Suinto and this year she won the Speed Goat 50K in a course record time.
1:20.7	I had the pleasure of spending an evening with anime Flynn
1:24.1	moderating a conversation about recovery, nutrition, and performance in Boulder,
1:30.0	Colorado about a month and a half ago with several other trail runners and she's
1:34.6	graciously agreed to continue the conversation here on the podcast. Now before we
1:40.3	move on I want to thank Inside Tracker for lending their support to the show.
1:44.8	Any runner who's putting in the work and progressing is going to be interested in Inside Tracker's
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