Episode 3 | Des Linden

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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“I’m comfortable saying I’m a marathoner and everything feeds into the next marathon and making sure that’s great. So if that means being a little out of shape for some summer racing or some off-season racing, that’s OK. I think you kind of check your ego when it comes to that stuff and know that it’s playing into the bigger picture.”Two-time Olympian Des Linden comes on the podcast and discusses a wide range of topics including her pre-run coffee habits, how she pulled herself out of a slump last fall, what it’s like to live with a triathlete, how she’s approaching this year’s Boston Marathon, and the importance of being open and honest about her journey as an athlete.“For me personally, it’s sharing the entire experience. I didn’t have to tell people that I was in a slump this fall or unmotivated or just didn’t want to get out the door. But I think it’s valuable and I think everyone goes through that—the person who’s finishing last and the pros too—it’s pretty universal and I think there’s a lot of experiences like that,” Linden told me. “There’s those days where you don’t want to go out and run and there’s those days where you just feel great and you share the entire experience and I think it will connect with more people. I think it’s just talking about all of it because it is just a very universal sport—good days, bad days, injuries, the whole thing—and so the more you can share with people, the more they’ll realize beyond the pace, everything is pretty similar. It’s right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, repeat, and that’s all the way across the board, so there’s gotta be some things we can connect on. It’s just finding the ones that resonate.”Also in this episode, the 34-year-old native of Chula Vista, Calif., talks about training under Keith and Kevin Hanson as a member of the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project for the past 12 years, the state of competitive running in the U.S., the distant appeal of ultrarunning, how she views her job as a professional athlete, what she’d like to accomplish before she’s done competing, the toughest athlete she’s ever raced against, and so much more. This episode of the morning shakeout podcast was edited by John Isaac at BaresRecords.com.Complete show notes here: http://themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-3-des-linden/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered directly to your inbox every Tuesday morning: http://themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	Des Linden, welcome to the Morning Shakeout Podcast.
0:03.0	Thank you, thanks for having me.
0:05.0	I'm sure we're going to talk about plenty of running related things here over the next hour or so, but I want to geek out for a minute first. It's mid-morning for me. I'm on my second cup of coffee. I think it's midday for you at this point, but I know you are quite the coffee connoisseur what did you have in your cup this morning and how did you prepare it?
0:26.8	Yeah, oh that's a great question. I'm an espresso person all the way and I actually just came back from Europe and a little jet-lagged.
0:36.2	So I've had three Americanos thus far and I can't, Ryan's got a bunch of stuff he's been trying out,
0:44.9	beans wise, so I don't even know what it was. It was like a variety that we've gone through this morning.
0:49.3	And they've all been good. So do you guys have a little lab in your kitchen like an espresso machine, maybe an
0:55.0	arrow press or a chemex or a French press or do you guys just go straight espresso all the time?
1:02.0	We have the whole assortment from like a Turkish coffee
1:06.5	roast or machine which is not really a machine just goes stove top. We have the
1:11.0	Kemex, we have the aeropress, we have the siphon, you name it, if it makes coffee, we have it.
1:18.0	But we, they've all kind of collected dust. We have a rocket espresso machine and it's it's been the go to since we got it.
1:26.9	So that's where we've been as a plate.
1:30.0	Man, I am super jealous. I have to come some time and have some coffee time with you guys
1:36.8	continuing on the coffee theme for a little bit how does it fit into your your training and
1:41.4	racing are you someone who will have an espresso or two before you head out for your workout? Do you need to or do you try to restrain yourself from time to time?
1:50.0	Yeah, I'm definitely a morning coffee, pre-run, pre-workout person.
1:55.0	Mostly I just have to get up and walk around for a while because I'm in my mid-30s and like I got to warm up before I start my run and so if I'm going to do that I'm going to get a cup of coffee and get the body warmed up, get the belly warmed up, take care of all of that before I head out the door and just
2:14.9	puts me in a little bit of a better mood.
2:17.1	Yeah, I don't like, I don't really shy away from it, I'm not one of the taper believers.
2:23.8	So yeah, it's kind of routine to have one in the morning
2:26.8	before the run and then when I come back,
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