From Setback To the Start Line - Episode 3 - There's Hope - With 2:38 Marathoner Jon Pohlkamp
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Ten Junk Miles
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Join Scotty and Jon Pohlkamp, a 2:38 marathoner that underwent the same surgery and recovery that Scotty had. Listen to them talk about his running, injury, course of treatment, recovery and return to marathoning.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. This is going to be another one of those from the injury to the start line episodes. |
| 0:09.0 | This is, so it's interesting. I found this guy on the internet. His name is John Polnap and Paul Camp, sorry. And he, I saw on a Reddit, they were talking about people that had had the |
| 0:23.4 | root repair and then went on to run races. And this guy, he posted his Strava. He had just |
| 0:31.9 | run a really fast marathon and, uh, after his root repair. And I was like, you know what? I need to find out |
| 0:38.0 | everything about this person. And it might not be interesting to a lot of you, but I know that a few |
| 0:43.9 | of you, it'll be very interesting to because it's the first person that I've really found that |
| 0:48.4 | did significant running after having the procedure that I had. So his name is John. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm looking forward to talking with him. |
| 1:00.4 | Again, nobody's sponsoring this, but I just want to do a quick shout out to some of the companies that I've been using in my recovery, trail toes for my feet, |
| 1:06.1 | Mounted Coast for my shoes, path projects for all of my clothes. |
| 1:10.1 | You can for my nutrition. |
| 1:12.0 | And of course, the greatest coach in coach history, Liza Howard. |
| 1:16.8 | So, but with that in mind, let's find out about John Polkamp. |
| 1:21.0 | Here we go. |
| 1:25.4 | I ran 60 seconds three times this week. |
| 1:32.6 | So I'm actually doing stuff. |
| 1:40.0 | Ten jump miles. |
| 1:42.2 | Ten jump miles. 10 miles. |
| 1:46.2 | Jump miles. |
| 1:50.2 | Okay. |
| 1:55.5 | Thanks for doing this. |
| 1:56.6 | I really appreciate it. |
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