Episode 74: Running Your First Marathon? Listen to this Behind the Scenes Coaching Call

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Pam is a Team Strength Running member. Every month, I get the team together for a live video coaching call. We talk about workouts, scheduling races, planning around vacations and injuries, and how to strategically plan a season.

I recently asked the team if anybody was planning a BIG goal and wanted to come on the podcast to talk more about how to achieve that crazy goal.

[These opportunities are only available to Team SR members. Learn more about the team here.]

Pam stepped up. She’s not new to running but wants to run a marathon even though she’s never run longer than about 9 miles. Her longest race has been 10k.

This is a unique place to be: an experienced yet low-mileage runner who wants to make the leap to running 26.2 miles.

We’re left with a lot of questions:

How can this transition be done safely with as little injury risk as possible?
Can Pam train for a marathon now or should she wait?
How can Pam build her mileage over the long-term to make running her first marathon easier to achieve?

These are the questions we’re answering on today’s podcast episode about running your first marathon.

This is a behind the scenes coaching call that I occasionally do for team members, highlighting their unique goals and struggles and how they can keep improving.

The format of the call is three parts:

First, what is Pam’s background as a runner?

Second, what are her goals and current training like?

Finally, we strategize on how she can make those goals a reality.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set go.
0:04.7	This is episode 74, a behind the scenes coach of Strength Running, and your host.
0:23.0	I do want to start today by thanking some of you for a bunch of new reviews and ratings for
0:28.8	the podcast in Apple Music, which I think is the new name for iTunes, but I don't know, I'd have to ask the kids what they're calling it these days.
0:37.0	Anyway, in particular, one review said that this podcast is for you, if you want to up your game and improve your
0:44.7	training. I'm very grateful for that because that's exactly the goal of this
0:49.4	podcast and more broadly strength running. I want to give you the tools the techniques the knowledge the
0:56.4	mindsets workouts and training principles to take your running to the next level so
1:02.1	thank you for that podcast review,
1:04.4	and if you haven't left one yet,
1:06.2	I would greatly appreciate it.
1:08.2	Today's episode is different than most of our other episodes
1:11.4	because this is actually a coaching call. I'm going to be
1:14.2	speaking with Pam, a runner who's never run longer than about nine miles but wants to
1:19.0	run a marathon. And at age 46 she's not sure where she should start or even if a marathon is a realistic goal for her at this point.
1:27.5	So we're going to walk through her background as a runner, her training statistics, like, you know, her experience with speed work and high mileage and long run distances,
1:36.2	any upcoming races she might have and my guidance for how she can
1:41.2	gradually turn herself into a marathoner.
1:44.0	Before we dive into this behind the scenes coaching call,
1:47.0	I want to thank our sponsor, Quick Tape,
1:49.0	a thin peel and stick foot tape that helps you manage foot and lower leg injuries.
1:54.0	If you have planar fasciitis, shin splints or other foot pain,
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