Episode 83: Sarah Canney on the 2019 World Snowshoe Running Championships

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Last week, I had the pleasure of spending an hour talking to Sarah Canney. She's a Road Runners Club of America and USA Track and Field certified running coach in addition to being a competitive mountain runner and member of the 2018 US National Snowshoe Running Team.

In fact, she recently placed 9th at the World Championships in Val di Non, Italy on January 5th.

Now, I've never gone snowshoe running. I don't own any snowshoes. Frankly, I don't even like the cold.

But after hearing Sarah speak more about the sport and how fun it can be, it's something I'm dying to try (and you can't get a better snowshoe running venue than Colorado's Front Range!)

And while snowshoe running might be a lot of fun, it can also be an extraordinarily helpful method of cross-training:

There's less impact running slower on snow (and less injury risk)
It's incredibly specific to running (in fact, it is running)
Because it's more difficult than running on the road, less time is needed for a great workout

The more and more I think about this sport, the more that I think runners need to try it!

In this episode, we talk everything snowshoe running:

How it's very similar to cross country
The gear and equipment required for success
The training: how is it different from running?
What you need to know before getting started
How difficult it can be and how that relates to pace and effort

We also discuss her running retreat Rise. Run. Retreat. for women and how she's making a big impact in the world of women's running.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set go.
0:04.0	This is episode 83 with Running Coach,
0:07.0	the co-founder of Rise Run Retreat for Women
0:09.6	and a new ninth place finisher at the 2019 world snowshoe running championships, Ms. Sarah Canney. Hello runners and the run curious I'm I'm Jason Fitzgerald your host today the head coach of strength running and I'm sitting in front of my microphone
0:34.2	really jazzed up to introduce you to my guest today Ms Sarah Canney. She has
0:40.0	gotten into snowshoe running over the last several years and she just placed in the top 10 at the
0:45.8	World Snowshoe Running Championships in Italy.
0:48.9	We're going to be talking all about this very niche sub-topic of running because it's fun. It's ridiculous and it's a very
0:56.2	effective way of getting in the miles when there's a lot of snow outside. So if you've never tried
1:01.9	it but have thought about it, this episode is going to be right up your alley.
1:06.0	But before we dive in, I do want to stop and do a little bit of Q&A.
1:10.0	I normally only talk about today's guest and maybe do a sponsor read to keep the lights on over here,
1:16.0	but I think it would be helpful to start some of our episodes with your questions.
1:21.0	Why? Well, I think there's a lot of value in doing Q&A. First, it's a way that I can
1:27.2	directly help an individual with their very specific question, but also doing it publicly allows everyone to learn from it.
1:36.3	More than that as well, I really think it's valuable as a way of giving back to the running
1:41.0	community so that hopefully more runners don't have to make the same
1:44.7	mistakes that I did.
1:46.5	All right, let's do some questions about strength training.
1:50.0	This comes from one of our high performance lifting clients named Steve.
1:54.6	Now as many of you know, we introduced high performance lifting in 2018 last year and it quickly
2:01.1	became our most popular program and the program that got the most
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