Episode 6: Behind the Scenes of a Marathon Coaching Call
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever run a marathon and thought you could have raced faster? A lot of marathoners do! And in Episode 6 of The Strength Running Podcast, Jason dives into the background, training, and race execution of a member of Team Strength Running.
In this episode, you'll hear how George trained to run his recent best marathon and Jason's advice on how he can take his performance to the next level. You'll learn more about mileage building, long run specificity, workouts that help your marathon goals, and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go! |
| 0:05.0 | This is episode number six. A new feature, a training review where I sit down with a runner, |
| 0:10.7 | talk about their history and training, and we brainstorm actionable ways to keep improving. Welcome to the strength running podcast. My name is Jason Fitzgerald, head coach of Strength |
| 0:35.0 | Running.com and every week I'll be your personal coach helping you discover how to reach |
| 0:40.8 | your potential and become the runner that you know you want to be. |
| 0:44.0 | Thanks for hanging out with me today. Now it's time to get after it. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome back guys. Now as you've seen or maybe heard as the right word, |
| 0:52.0 | the last five podcast episodes have been As you've seen, or maybe heard as the right word, |
| 0:52.8 | the last five podcast episodes have been mostly interviews |
| 0:56.5 | with well-known runners, coaches, |
| 0:58.6 | and other influencers. |
| 1:00.3 | Episode three had Olympian Shalane Flanagan. |
| 1:03.0 | Episode 4 was a discussion of coaching with my friend Mario Freoli. |
| 1:07.5 | And our last episode was with Steve Kam of Nerd Fitness on systems,its, and how to make exercise easier. |
| 1:14.4 | Today, we're doing something new. |
| 1:16.5 | I want to give you a behind the scenes look at how I help runners get faster. |
| 1:21.5 | To do that, I invited a team strength running member on the show to talk about |
| 1:25.7 | their training in a recent goal race. You'll hear from George, a 60-year-old marathoner from |
| 1:30.4 | Northern Ireland, and we discussed his background as an athlete, the training he did |
| 1:34.9 | leading up to his goal marathon and how the race unfolded. More importantly, we talk about |
| 1:40.0 | what he can improve on so that his next marathon will be his best. |
| 1:44.4 | This is a front row seat to the high level and also very tactical |
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