Episode 121 | Ask Mario Anything #4

the morning shakeout podcast

Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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“Running to me represents freedom and I don’t want to just confine myself to running to numbers, like trying to run to specific mileage on a given day or just running to specific paces every day. There’s a freedom to it and a fluidity that I think is really, really important…Not every workout has to build toward something or target a specific energy system, especially right now where there are no races to build toward. For me, and what I’m trying to preach to my athletes, it’s like, look, you almost gotta think of running right now as more of an outlet than ever. Like sometimes you just need to remind yourself what made this pursuit fun in the first place.”This week on the podcast you get to hear from me in the second Ask Mario Anything episode of 2020. I answered a number of listener questions about coaching, training, nutrition, making adjustments, my past struggles with disordered eating, and more. On the other side of the mic for this one is John Summerford, longtime producer of the morning shakeout podcast, and we kick this one off mid-conversation talking about the importance of consistency and “getting your reps in,” regardless of the pursuit.This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Tracksmith, which makes classically stylish, cutting-edge apparel for real-world athletes. Visit tracksmith.com/mario and use code Mario15 at checkout to save $15 on your first purchase of $75 or more. It’s also sponsored by WHOOP, a fitness wearable that helps you sleep better, recover faster, and train smarter. Learn more at WHOOP.com and enter “Mario” at checkout to save 15% on a membership.Complete show notes: https://themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-121-ask-mario-anything-4/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	Running to me represents freedom and I don't want to confine myself to running to numbers like trying to run to specific mileage on a given day or just running specific paces every day.
0:15.0	There's a freedom to it and a fluidity that I think is really, really important.
0:19.0	Like, not every workout has to build toward something or target a specific energy system, especially right
0:26.7	now where there are no races to build toward.
0:29.2	For me and what I'm trying to preach my athletes, like, look, you almost got to think of running right now as more of an outlet than ever.
0:36.0	Sometimes you just need to remind yourself what made this pursuit fun in the first place. Hey what's up everybody I'm your host Mario Freoli and this week well this week you get to hear from me in the second
0:54.8	Ask Mario Anything episode of 2020. I answered a number of listener questions
0:59.6	about coaching, training, nutrition, making adjustments, and a lot more.
1:04.5	On the other side of the mic for this one is John Sommerford, a longtime producer of the
1:08.1	morning shakeout podcast, and as a point of reference, we hit record on this one
1:12.3	mid conversation before we get into the listener questions.
1:15.8	John is talking about playing music
1:17.4	with his brother for the first time since quarantine started,
1:20.4	the very same brother that plays drums for the theme music to this podcast.
1:25.0	So without any further ado, let's get right into it with Ask Mario Anything Number 2 of 2020.
1:39.0	It's like, it's a bit like your podcast where it's a weekly thing, where like every week you're committing to output a certain product and I mean I just find like
1:46.3	doing that with music I don't know it's just like it's exercising those muscles
1:50.8	and like I become so much more springy with that where like I almost
1:56.2	feel like in the last couple of years like that creative muscle almost sort of
1:59.8	like atrophies unless I use it but for me the key is doing it every week and
2:05.6	having that like sticking to that that deadline. Yeah you gotta be consistent with it
2:10.8	I mean I've definitely noticed that and it's something I
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