Episode 366: Race Course Specific Training
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This episode looks at how important race course specificity is relative to other aspects of your training, and how this may vary depending on where you are in training, lifestyle, and degree of course uniqueness.
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Podcast Episodes Mentioned:
Episode 344: Endurance Training Simplified
Episode 346: Short Intervals Simplified
Episode 348: Long Intervals Simplified
Episode 356: Easy Run - Simplified
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a topic-based episode for you. |
| 0:17.9 | Today's topic is race course specificity, where I'm going to break down |
| 0:22.9 | how important is it to train on the type of course you're going to race on or the way I like |
| 0:28.0 | to look at it maybe is how important is it amongst other things so you can know what |
| 0:33.5 | sacrifices are worth making to get on terrain specific to the course that you're going to be |
| 0:37.6 | on versus staying closer to home and running on whatever's local to you. |
| 0:43.2 | So before we get going with that, just a couple quick announcements. |
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