How to Nail Your Run Pacing with the Run Pacing Guru Greg McMillan
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Taren Gesell
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🗓️ 8 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Greg McMillian is a pioneer in the world of run pacing. On the podcast today, he gives us tips to understand run pacing to get the best training results, and how to stay injury free while running!
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| 0:00.0 | Trainiacs, we have a guest today that is a bit of a fan girl moment for me, Greg McMillan. |
| 0:06.0 | Now, the triathletes out there might not recognize that name, but Greg came up with the McMillan running calculator. |
| 0:13.0 | And this was the very first bit of structured training that I ever did somewhere around nine or even 10 years ago. And this is back when you |
| 0:23.0 | didn't take screenshots on your phone. Like I actually had my McMillan running paces magneted onto my |
| 0:31.6 | fridge. Like you'll hear in this that at the start, it's really surreal being able to talk to |
| 0:36.9 | Greg because he was the first foray into structured training. |
| 0:40.7 | What he created with the McMillan running calculator is you're able to put in a goal race, |
| 0:47.5 | a target that you want to reach, and some current running fitness that you've done, |
| 0:52.0 | and then it spits out all of your target paces for all |
| 0:56.1 | of the different distances of tempo runs and interval runs and long runs and easy runs and |
| 1:02.4 | things like this. And I found it tremendously valuable to start understanding, oh, every single |
| 1:08.2 | workout has a different purpose. And for all of those different purposes, |
| 1:12.4 | you need to do a different thing in that workout. It's not just go out and run for the sake of running |
| 1:17.2 | or bike for the sake of biking. If you want to elicit a certain response in a workout, |
| 1:22.1 | you have to give your body a certain stimuli. And this was one of the first things where I started |
| 1:25.9 | formulating like what my beliefs on training were. So this was one of the first things where I started formulating like what my |
| 1:28.6 | beliefs on training were. So it was really, really cool to chat with Greg. And I think a fantastic |
| 1:34.6 | talk, he should do as many podcasts as possible because it's just a great talker. So you're really, |
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