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That Triathlon Show

Modern marathon training principles and preparation with running coach John Davis

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Running your best marathon is about more than just logging miles. In this episode, I’m joined by running coach and author John Davis to dive deep into the periodisation, workouts, and science of marathon preparation and running performance. You can expect plenty of actionable takeaways whether you’re targeting your first marathon, chasing a Boston qualifier, or even thinking about bringing some marathon training principles to your triathlon training.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 472 of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

0:15.0

My name is Michael Edickson and today I interview John Davis.

0:19.0

John is a running coach and a newly minted author of what looks like an amazing book on

0:23.6

marathon training.

0:24.8

We'll talk about that more in the episode.

0:27.7

You might remember John being on the show quite recently.

0:30.5

It was back in episode 464 in June.

0:33.7

But when John reached out, I remembered that as such a good episode such a good chat and John

0:39.6

providing so much great knowledge that when he asked me whether he could come on again to discuss

0:44.1

marathon training around his book launch I didn't really even have to think about it he was a very

0:49.0

clear yes from me so here we are and in this episode we'll go really deep into marathon training specifically

0:55.1

and I know that this is something that a lot of listeners will find super practically applicable

1:00.5

because it's something that a lot of people do, a lot of triathletes do in autumn or in winter

1:05.8

spring when the main triathlons might be in the early to late summer generally or even into autumn

1:12.9

if you're going to Kona or something. A couple of housekeeping items though before the interview.

1:18.4

I've been working on various changes and which hopefully will be improvements of the podcast

1:23.5

or the last little while. So some things I've already implemented,

1:29.9

others I will implement over the next few weeks.

1:31.1

So for example,

1:32.0

you've already heard this,

1:34.4

but I have a new intro and outro music.

1:37.6

A bigger change is that from this very episode,

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