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The Running Public

Episode 13: Dennis Welch - Endurance Coach

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Health & Fitness, Sports, Fitness, Sports:running, Running

4.9704 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

From high school track to road racing, triathlon, and OCR, Dennis has coached every facet of Endurance Racing. Most well known for his outside-the-box training methods using tire dragging and sled pushing, Dennis looks at endurance training from a very unique perspective. Tune in today to hear how he developed his training system and how to best apply it for your own athletic development!

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the running public.

0:13.2

From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.

0:16.5

Get to the finish line faster.

0:18.3

That's right.

0:19.0

This podcast is for you guys, the running public.

0:28.9

Dennis, I've been looking forward to chatting with you. Do you want to know why? No.

0:33.2

Because I don't know much about you. But I got some respect for you, and I think Bracken does too. So we kind of want to get to know the man that we don't know much about you. But I got some respect for you.

0:37.6

And I think Bracken does too.

0:39.0

So we kind of want to get to know the man that we don't really know.

0:43.2

All right.

0:44.6

Yeah, no, I know because even Bracken more up in Chicago at Hirocks were talking about stuff.

0:49.3

He's like, oh, I didn't know you did that.

0:50.3

I didn't know, you know, you had this or that or, you know, so.

0:55.8

And that, that seems to be the common thread.

1:00.4

A lot. Everyone does the same OCR podcast circuits. We just do them all. We talk about the same thing. So let's, let's open up with the stuff you don't generally put out there. Let's take you

1:05.8

back to when did you pick up running or start with whatever first sport you picked up?

1:11.5

Take us back to the beginning.

1:13.3

Yeah.

1:13.6

So, I mean, I grew up in Oklahoma, you know, country kid or whatever in a small town, 300 people.

1:19.7

I played ball sports like most kids do, you know, baseball, football, everything.

1:23.8

And I was just any time that we had, you know, got in trouble for losing or got in trouble for this or that and did suicides or anything, I was always fine.

1:32.3

Like everybody else would be dying and the more we did, the better I got, you know.

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