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....On the Run with Andy Jones-Wilkins

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

If you could run one last 100 miler with a personal-best time and then never run again OR you could be guaranteed to be able to run three miles a day for the rest of your life, but never run another 100, what would you choose?

Andy Jones-Wilkins answers this question and other philosophical questions.  AJW will be running his tenth and final Western States 100 this June.  He has remained a competitive threat in this event and a HUGE fan of this race and trail running.  We talk with Andy about two of his recent blog posts on iRunFar:

Other topics covered:

  • How do you get your kids involved in running?
  • What is the "Sawchuk Seven" and is it true?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Petzl.com is the home of the best trail running torches on the planet Earth.

0:13.1

True.

0:14.1

Today's Petzl trail running strategy is brought to you by Mark Cucazzella, Dr. Mark.

0:20.7

What do you got for it?

0:21.7

All right.

0:22.7

So here's our quick one or two minute running tip of the day, kind of linking to our podcast.

0:28.1

So one of the things that helps you run more efficiently is thinking about running over

0:32.1

the ground, not into the ground.

0:34.1

So think about running down a hill.

0:35.8

You always want to try to run over the ground and almost like your hamster wheel in a

0:39.8

bit, you know, getting your leg out, getting it moving behind you, accelerating a little

0:45.2

back.

0:46.2

So if you run on our motorist, treadmill, or two-raver stretch, you pretty much have

0:49.4

to do this.

0:50.4

You can't run into the ground.

0:51.4

You just stop.

0:52.4

You've got to run over the ground and make the trail move.

0:55.8

So check out the link that Don and Scott will have there, but just think about running

0:59.6

over the ground, practice it while you're running downhill or on a motorist treadmill,

1:04.8

and then that'll transfer to all of your movements.

1:08.6

So no ground pounding.

1:10.0

It's more of trying to spin the Earth underneath your feet.

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