How Should I Train Between Marathons? Coaching Call w/ Pam Rountree
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Pam recently completed two marathons with seven weeks of training in between, but no significant improvement in her time.
She would like to reach her goal in her next race, but feels the 24-week program she used last time is too long. She wants to to know how she can maintain fitness and then ramp up for race.
Coach Jeff provides context for post-race recovery and maintenance training prior to jumping into a marathon build-up and how long that build up should, and maybe shouldn't, be.
He also explains how to leverage the time between races to arrive at the start of a marathon training cycle even stronger without much additional effort.
We hope you enjoy listening to this conversation and find some takeaways that help you in your training.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:11.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:18.0 | Now here's your host, Chinnade Hockey. |
| 0:24.8 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Runers Connect, |
| 0:26.8 | run to the top podcast. |
| 0:28.7 | This is Coach Jeff back with you here |
| 0:30.5 | for one more week as we continue to shift our podcast a little bit and |
| 0:35.0 | change our host. |
| 0:36.4 | I believe I mentioned just in our exit to my last interview, but Stephanie Atwood will be taking |
| 0:42.4 | over next week and it'll be a transition |
| 0:44.9 | episode. So we're going to have Sheneed on the podcast and Stephanie and Shenead are going to interview |
| 0:49.8 | each other so you can learn what she has next on her agenda and what she's working towards |
| 0:54.4 | and also introduce you to Stephanie giving an idea who she is, what she's all |
| 0:59.1 | about and what she hopes to bring to this podcast. I'm really excited to listen to that one. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 1:05.4 | Introducing you guys to Stephanie, she's I think going to do an amazing job and also allowing you to kind of hear what |
| 1:11.9 | she has on her plans for upcoming. |
| 1:16.0 | On today's show we're going to do one more episode where we interview an athlete who had a question |
| 1:21.0 | that we felt would be a good conversation between coach and |
| 1:24.2 | athlete. We got some great feedback last week when we did this, both in our Facebook |
| 1:29.1 | group and for those that emailed me, so I really appreciate the feedback. It gave us a lot of good |
| 1:34.0 | direction and I want to say that you don't have to worry that this is going to be |
| 1:37.7 | every week now coming up. We're still going to maintain the same format for |
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