Episode 233 | Simon Freeman and Mario Fraioli on Seasonality and Consistency in Running

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I recently sat down with my good friend and frequent podcast guest Simon Freeman, the co-founder, editor, and publisher of my favorite running magazine, Like The Wind, for the fourth and final installment (for this year, anyway) of our yet-to-be named quarterly conversation, which you can listen to wherever you get the morning shakeout podcast. An excerpt of this exchange can be found in Issue #38 of LtW, which comes out later this week. (You can buy a copy or subscribe here.) This time around, Simon proposed a philosophical discussion about seasonality and consistency and I was all about it. We talked about when to rest and when to build, running as a means to an end versus running as a lifestyle, the “flywheel effect,” and more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the morning shakeout podcast.
0:04.0	I love to run, period.
0:07.0	You can always run faster.
0:09.0	Forever, you're going to feel something.
0:11.0	You're going to run into roadblocks,
0:14.0	but that's also going to teach you how to handle things in life.
0:17.0	I don't think we want to be like rocks,
0:19.0	where we're not accepted by anything.
0:21.0	It's not maybe a physical thing, but it's a mental thing.
0:24.0	There's like two voices in the alpha and beta.
0:27.0	All I was really trying to do was just keep moving forward.
0:32.0	Every single runner knows what that means.
0:35.0	My life has a purpose and maybe it's not what I thought it was going to be, but...
0:40.0	There were times when I didn't think I would be able to come back
0:44.4	There's a lot of people that had different gifts and they don't use it. I think if we all use our guests we could do something really special not for ourselves but our family if we're really good
0:55.6	we could do something for fourth and final installment
1:15.3	for 2023 of my quarterly conversation with Simon Freeman who is the publisher and
1:21.9	editor of Like the Wind magazine and here to help set this one up for me as usual.
1:26.2	It's my right hand man, Chris Douglas. Chris, welcome back to the show for, I don't know, the umpteenth time this year.
1:32.2	Yeah, it's been like a thing all year so happy happy to be back always fun to share the mics with you.
1:37.6	Yeah, this conversation was great. This one felt we were talking about it before we started recording.
1:42.8	This was like Simon getting,
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