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The Running Public

Episode 619: Listener Questions

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

4.9705 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today we answer fourteen of your best questions about running, training, shoes, heat, drugs, and racing!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.

0:13.1

Whether you are a brand new runner or you already have a great mustache.

0:16.4

We're here to help you increase your running knowledge and present it at a practical level.

0:20.5

This is the running public.

0:30.2

When you're ready to take your training or racing to the next level, go to the running

0:34.3

public.com.

0:35.7

We have both monthly subscription training plans,

0:39.3

1999 a month, and Bracken and I both offer one-on-one customized coaching. Again, go to

0:45.1

the running public.com and check out our offerings. Question one, begin. Listeners, hang on.

0:51.5

We're getting right to it. Got 14 questions, screenshots. We should know it's a hopeless task to get through them all. We're going to do our best. All right. Bracken said he's going to be short-winded today. Let's hold him to it. Johnny asked.

1:08.3

How about this? Let's answer each question with one concise sentence.

1:15.4

And then we can only elaborate just a little bit if it's all really necessary. How about that?

1:20.0

Yeah. And I'm not allowed to say it depends. All right. No, it depends from Bracken.

1:23.6

Johnny, hey guys. I have a question that I can't really find a great answer for, so I'm going to come here for your expertise.

1:29.8

In my recovery running shoes, I like to toe strike, but in my faster carbon-plated shoes, I prefer to heel strike.

1:37.3

Is this an issue? My recovery shoes are a hook of Clifton tens, and my faster shoes are the New Balance SC trainers.

1:44.7

I don't think it's an issue.

1:46.4

I am a proponent of people using different footstrikes in their running, and your SC

1:51.8

trainers are like a 10 to 12 mil drop, and the Clifton's are anywhere from 4 to 8, depending on which

1:58.6

batch you got.

2:04.5

And the plate is helping you heel strike and roll through in the SC trainer.

2:05.1

No problem.

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