Improve Your Running In 2025 Using These FIVE Tips From A Former Accomplished NCAA Runner & Now Coach, Paul Stafford: The Secrets That Will Take You To The Next Level

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast is a simple, yet deep conversation that covers five ways you can take your running to the next level in 2025.

To have this conversation with me and share these five things is Coach Paul Stafford. Paul is an extremely successful athlete himself having been All-ACC in Cross Country and All-PAC 12 in the 5k. He spent stints at both Flordia State and Colorado. He holds PRs of 4:08 in the Mile, 13:56 in the 5k, 29:12 in the 10k, and 44:54 in the 15k, which will be the Puerto Rican National Record after it gets ratified.

Paul is the Founder and Head Coach at Blue Collar, which can be described as the most innovative online coaching firm in the United States, providing adaptive coaching for athletes of all ages and abilities. Blue Collar is also the leading pioneer in training camp experiences across the United States.

In today's conversation, Paul takes me through these five points at depth. They include insights on training by effort and intention, resisting greed, holding yourself to high expectations, and so much more. This one is full of wisdom that you can apply directly into your running TODAY.

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0:00.0	So in your life, that's just like avoiding negotiation with yourself because you, because your brain is going to try and negotiate with you.
0:07.2	And it's like how you respond to that and then avoiding negotiation with others.
0:11.5	It's and that really tests you.
0:13.2	It's like how, how bad do you want this to where you're willing to like tell your buddies?
0:17.3	I'm like, man, like if you love me, you know this is what I want.
0:21.1	Like, we, we can hang out another time. It's just, now I got to get, I got to get to bed.
0:25.6	I've got these goals that I really want to accomplish.
0:31.1	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Running Effect podcast. I'm your host,
0:35.8	Dominic Schleader. In today's episode,
0:38.1	circles and centers around the subject of how to get better at running, which is a reason
0:42.9	that many of you guys listen to the conversations I have on this podcast. And there's no better
0:47.7	person to do it than with Paul Stafford. Paul ran for Florida State in Colorado back in the day,
0:53.3	where he was all ACC in cross-country
0:56.1	and all Pack 12 in the 5K, if I'm not mistaken. And Paul then went on to start and create just
1:01.9	about a year ago Blue Collar Endurance Training, which is a online run coaching platform where he has
1:07.7	really transformed the lives of a lot of athletes specifically in high school and
1:12.1	help them to improve.
1:13.8	And so I asked Paul to come up with five key points and five key takeaways for you guys on
1:19.1	how you can improve as a runner in 2025.
1:22.0	This one is very systematic, straight to the point.
1:24.5	As I tell Paul at the beginning of this conversation, most bang for your buck. If you're going to listen to this one, you're going to get a lot of value and you're going to the point. As I tell Paul at the beginning of this conversation, most bang for your buck.
1:27.9	If you're going to listen to this one, you're going to get a lot of value. And you're going to walk away
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