Long Run Strategy, Balancing Intensity vs. Volume, Heavy Lifting, & More (Q&A with Jason)
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Listen in on a Team Strength Running coaching call, where Jason takes questions from the community about training, long runs, workout strategy, and more.
To join one of these calls, join the team here.
We discuss:
- Long run strategy (related podcast with David Roche!)
- The value of lifting heavy weights (start here)
- How to balance speed and mileage
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go! |
| 0:04.4 | This is episode 433 featuring a live Q&A on long runs, strength training, balancing intensity, |
| 0:12.2 | and more from a team strength running coaches chat. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the Strength Running podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Coach Jason Fitzgerald, and I want to help you become a better runner. |
| 0:34.2 | Today's show features a live Q&A with our team's strength running members. |
| 0:38.4 | We get together to do Ask Me Anythings, where everyone in the group can ask me anything they'd like about their training, race strategy, scheduling races, injury prevention, |
| 0:44.7 | structuring their workouts, and a lot more. If you'd like to join the team, go to strength |
| 0:49.1 | running.com slash join. We have runners around the world leveling up with our training plan library, our library of |
| 0:56.5 | extra interviews and coaching calls, support from your peers, and coaching guidance for me. And I'd love for you |
| 1:03.1 | to be our newest member. That's strengthrunning.com slash join. And I couldn't do this show without support |
| 1:09.4 | from our sponsors, so I hope you'll support them |
| 1:11.9 | by using their discount codes. You should definitely hook yourself up with some free electrolytes |
| 1:17.4 | from our sponsor Element. They're offering a free gift with your purchase at drinklmn.com |
| 1:24.7 | slash strength running. And this does not have to be your first purchase. You're going to get a |
| 1:29.6 | sample pack with every flavor so you can try them all before deciding what you like best. |
| 1:35.0 | If you're not familiar, Element is my favorite way to hydrate. They make electrolytes for |
| 1:39.9 | athletes and low carb folks with no sugar, no artificial ingredients or colors. I'm now in the |
| 1:46.9 | habit of giving away boxes of element at group runs whenever I attend in Denver or Boulder, |
| 1:52.9 | and everyone loves this stuff. It can be very helpful as a way to prevent dehydration when |
| 1:58.8 | you're running long or running a hard workout. If you |
| 2:01.6 | sometimes feel overly tired or you get headaches, cramps, or sleeplessness after long runs |
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