Episode 97 | CJ Albertson

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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"Obviously I’d love to be a world-class runner—like I’d love it, that’d be awesome—but I know there’s so much more in my life and so many more things I can do and my life isn’t just running. Obviously I knew I missed running, I will try to admit that, but I really did feel content. But I still had this feeling and I’m like, 'Well, it’s over now. It’s officially over. I’m done.' I’m running like 40 miles a week, just kind of having fun, I’m not competing. But it never really went away and then I don’t really know, I really just fell into the marathon."CJ Albertson is one of the most intriguing athletes heading into the Olympic Trials Marathon at the end of February. The 26-year-old ran a personal best of 2:13:40 at CIM last December to finish a close second behind Kenyan Elisha Barno. Last April, he ran 2:17:59 to break the indoor marathon world record and he’s broken 2:20 in each of the five marathons he’s competed in, most of them lower key efforts near where he lives in Clovis, California.I first learned about CJ from a reader of the morning shakeout newsletter, who told me to check out some of the runs he was putting up on Strava, like multiple solo 30-ish mile training runs averaging 5:15 to 5:20 per mile. I started following CJ in his buildup to CIM last December and was impressed by his penchant for hard work and ability to seemingly recover very quickly between big efforts.In this conversation, we talked about his unorthodox training methods and how, as a collegiate coach at Clovis Community College, he’s careful not to let his own training influence that of his athletes; he told me about his independent streak and tendency to push things to the extreme; we got into the race that sparked his return to competitive running after an up-and-down collegiate career at Arizona State; we discussed self-experimentation and some of his crazy things he’s tried to help him recover faster; he also told me about his wife, Chelsey, a fellow Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier and how she’s his secret weapon on race day, and a lot more.This episode is brought to you by: Final Surge: Final Surge's coaching tools have made planning and delivering training to the athletes I coach easy and seamless—communication is completely streamlined into one easy-to-navigate portal and it's made my workflow far more efficient and effective. Go to finalsurge.com/morningshakeout to purchase a training plan written by yours truly, to find more information about coaching packages, or to check out a 14-day coaching trial. Coaches: Use the code MORNINGSHAKEOUT when you check out to save 10% on your first purchase of a coaching account.Complete show notes: https://themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-97-with-cj-albertson/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:14.6	Obviously like I'd love to be a world-class runner like I love it like that'd be awesome but like I know like there's so much more in my life and so many more things I can do and like my life isn't just running you know and I was like obviously like I knew it like miss running I will try to admit that but I really did feel content but I would still have this feeling and I'm like well it's
0:21.8	over now like it's officially over I'm done I'm
0:24.4	running like 40 miles a week just kind of having fun like I'm not competing but it
0:29.6	did never really went away and then I don't really know I just I really just fell into the marathon.
0:37.1	That's CJ Albertson and this is episode 97 of the Morning Shakeout Podcast.
0:44.0	Hey what's going on everybody.
0:58.0	Hey what's going on everybody. I'm your host Mario Freoli and every week on this show I sit down with athletes, coaches, and personalities in the sport of running for long-form conversations that will educate you, inspire you, or impact
1:05.4	you in some way.
1:07.2	My guest this week is CJ Albertson.
1:10.0	I first learned about CJ from a reader of the Morning Shakeout newsletter who told me to check out some of the runs
1:15.3	that he was putting up on Strava,
1:17.3	like multiple solo 30-ish mile training runs,
1:20.4	averaging in the range of 515 to 520 per mile.
1:24.0	So I started following CJ in his build up to see I am last December,
1:27.6	where I then watched him run a personal best of 21340
1:31.6	to finish a close second behind Kenyan Alicia Barno. I think
1:35.8	CJ is one of the most intriguing athletes heading into the Olympic trials at
1:39.1	the end of February and I really enjoyed getting to learn more about him.
1:42.8	The 26 year old ran 217-59 last April to break the indoor marathon world record and he's broken
1:49.3	220 in each of the five marathons he's competed in, most of them lower key efforts near
1:54.6	where he lives in Clovis, California. In this conversation we talked about his
1:59.3	unorthodox training methods and how as a collegiate coach at Clovis Community College
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