Episode 34: Mark Batres

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

The fastest runner in the sport of OCR today, Mark Batres has been training as a distance runner since he was 8. From child phenom to collegiate stud to 2:19 marathoner to US National OCR champ, Mark walks us through his journey as a runner. He is also a successful endurance coach and we get to pick his brain about training volume, racing weight, and interval work.

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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.
0:29.1	So it's 7.30 a.m. in California and you're done with your grocery shopping. Kids are set up for
0:34.5	school? Yep, yep. They start at 8.45, but we didn't have any milk, so I was like,
0:41.1	I got to go out and get something else. They're going to wake up pissed off. They need their
0:46.2	cereals and stuff like that. Yes, they do. Do you normally go grocery shopping at like 6 a.m?
0:51.7	No, usually I'm running right now.
0:54.5	So this is usually my running time.
0:57.3	You know, it gets hot over here.
0:58.9	This weekend was 116.
1:01.3	So, yeah.
1:02.9	That's not a real temperature.
1:04.5	Yeah, I was like, oh, dude, it is freaking hot, dude.
1:08.3	And then I think in the valley, it was 121.
1:11.3	They had a record.
1:12.5	So I was like, oh, yeah.
1:14.6	But I'm like, Northridge is like the gateways of hell.
1:17.4	So it is what it is.
1:19.8	Bracken, I don't know about you, but we have a cold front here.
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