Episode 317: How To Cut 30 Min off Your Marathon Time
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast. Last week's episode focused on opening the door of opportunity for those who may have never thought it possible to finish a marathon, let alone be successful at one. We discussed strategies to motivate you towards taking on a challenge and strategies to help you thrive.
This week, we focus on those of you who have completed a marathon or even several. In this episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon shares actionable steps and strategies to help you improve your performance and take your marathon to the next level.
Matt dissects marathon training and the unique challenges of marathon running to better understand what you face. He discusses common flaws in many marathon training plans to help runners avoid injury and progress. Matt highlights strategies you can leverage for a smarter training approach.
From the benefits of clustered and split runs to practicing good posture with subtle inclines, Matt shares tips that can help enhance your speed and boost your skill set for your next marathon.
Also, be sure to check out our free live webinar, Strategies to Nail Your Marathon & Half Marathon, where Matt offers a more in-depth analysis of these points.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 02:48 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
02:49 - 06:43 - Coach's Corner
06:44 - 19:21 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 317: How To Cut 30 Min off Your Marathon Time
19:24 - 21:22 - Purple Patch Program Information
21:24 - 36:31 - How To Cut 30 Min off Your Marathon Time Cont.
36:33 - 37:51 - Purple Patch Program Information
37:52 - 40:26 - How To Cut 30 Min off Your Marathon Time Cont.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and |
| 0:08.9 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:14.5 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:20.3 | integrate sport into life. |
| 0:24.1 | If you want to go faster in sport, high performance is built on a robust platform of health. |
| 0:30.8 | It's your foundation, from which your commitment, your hard work, and of course your genetic |
| 0:37.0 | talents can flourish. |
| 0:39.1 | And that platform of health is developed by some really simple and important habits that can |
| 0:45.3 | lay the foundation and promote physiological ready state every single day. |
| 0:50.1 | One of the tools that we leverage at Purple Patch in order for us to hone our focus and develop |
| 0:55.4 | this platform of health is InsideTracker. Because by taking a look inside and assessing your |
| 1:00.5 | biometrics and then combining it with an action plan, born out of the expertise of the |
| 1:05.4 | scientists and experts inside tracker, as well as a wealth of peer-reviewed research, we get to filter out the distractions, |
| 1:13.0 | we get to prioritize the elements that are going to drive the performance needle and ultimately |
| 1:17.7 | help ourselves and all our athletes be more successful. I use it myself and guess what, |
| 1:22.9 | you can too. All you need to do is head to inside trackerer.com slash purple patch. And we've got a nice |
| 1:28.1 | code, Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro 20. You get 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:34.9 | All right. Enjoy the show. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:48.2 | And last week, well, the episode was all about opening up the door of opportunity. |
| 1:54.3 | For those folks that thought it might never be possible to even contemplate finishing a marathon, |
| 2:00.7 | let alone be truly successful. And so I built |
| 2:04.1 | out some strategies to help those people thrive. And maybe that was you as a listener. But perhaps |
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