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The Strength Running Podcast

Pete Pfitzinger on How to Run Your Best Marathon: Aging, Intensity, Posture, and More

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Pete Pfitzinger is a RRCA hall of famer, top American at two Olympic Marathons, and legendary coach and author most known for his book Advanced Marathoning (the 4th edition is now available for preorder!).

He's the top American at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Marathons, a 2-time winner of the San Francisco Marathon, 3rd place finisher at the 1987 NYC Marathon, and a coach with 30+ years of experience.

He's on the podcast today to discuss marathon training:

  • How is your posture during the delay related to how you run and your injury risk?
  • The value of back to back hard days (and how to structure them)
  • Training red flags that Pete consistently sees
  • Why "Advanced Marathoning" is not just for advanced runners
  • Recovery & training tips for Master's runners
  • The different applications for cross-training

Pete is one of the best and it's an absolute pleasure to learn from him. If you have someone running marathons in your life, please send them this episode or go leave it 5 stars in your podcast player. And don't forget to preorder the new edition of his book!

Thanks Boulderthon!

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Join me in Boulder, one of the top running destinations in the country, on September 28th, to experience the tight knit running community here, race on the epic streets of Boulder, and finish on historic Pearl Street. While I live in Denver, I travel to Boulder probably once a week to run. It’s arguably one of the best running locations in the United States.

There’ll probably be cool and crisp fall weather for racing fast, too. And don’t worry, Boulderthon is a BQ-eligible, USA Track & Field Sanctioned Event.

Boulderthon is on track to sell out again this year so don’t miss out. Use code STRENGTH20 to save $20 on the marathon or half-marathon here and I hope to see you in Boulder this fall.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ready, set, go!

0:04.4

This is episode 412 with the top American at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic marathons,

0:12.4

member of the Roadrunners Club of America's Hall of Fame,

0:15.4

a running coach with 30 years of experience and author of the legendary book,

0:20.4

Advanced Marathoning, Pete Fitzinger.

0:31.6

Welcome to the Strength Running podcast. We surround you with the same experts as pro runners.

0:36.7

So keep listening to hear coaches,

0:38.8

physical therapists, strength experts, dietitians, sports psychologists, and other thought leaders

0:43.8

give you the best guidance possible to take your running to the next level. I'm your host,

0:49.0

coach Jason Fitzgerald. I'm a former cross-country and track athlete for Connecticut College.

0:53.7

I've been coaching runners since 2010, and I used to write for Trail Runner Magazine

0:58.0

and Runner's World.

0:59.4

Today I'm the head coach of Strength Running, host of this podcast, and I work with a small

1:03.4

handful of startups in the running space.

1:05.8

You can learn more about me and Strength Running at Strength Running.com.

1:09.9

Now, with summer in full swing here in Colorado,

1:12.4

my goodness, it was just over 100 degrees. I hope you're using this gift of running to spend

1:18.3

more time outside and just experience the joy of running. You know, for me, summer has always

1:23.8

been about base training. So you can kind of see how running cross-country for eight

1:28.3

years has influenced me. So I'm trying to run more. I'm cycling more. In fact, I went on a nice

1:34.0

20-mile ride just last night as a double. And I'm even getting in some high-altitude hiking here

1:40.4

in the mountains, which is a nice thing to do with my kids when I really can't get in a run,

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