Qualify for Boston Using Run Walk with Coach Stephanie
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode our host, Stephanie Kay Atwood, runs solo from across the border in Mexico with a tried and true training strategy for Boston Qualifying (BQ'ing): Run-Walk.
That's right. By using run walk, over-distance training and only 3 days of running per week, Stephanie and other athletes she has coached have successfully BQ'd using this training method.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast, using Race Walk, Run Walk technique, over-distance training, |
| 0:11.0 | and as little as three days of running per week I have proof my own and |
| 0:15.6 | those of the people who've been coached by me that it's possible to qualify for |
| 0:20.0 | Boston. It's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier Coach, |
| 0:51.0 | and host for the Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | I am now in Mexico and I wanted to talk to you just briefly about this because it is |
| 1:00.6 | certainly changing some of the ways that I'm doing these podcasts as well as it's |
| 1:05.8 | really exciting being here. I'm about a half a day north of Mexico City and we have different internet, we have different kinds of |
| 1:14.8 | communication so that's one of the challenges that I've been working on the last |
| 1:18.6 | few weeks that I've been here but I am really excited to be here and I will I plan to be here the next six months or so so I hope you will continue to join me on the podcast which are done around the world and wonders of the internet and electronics and the digital world that |
| 1:36.4 | we can do this from almost anywhere. |
| 1:39.6 | So looking forward to several episodes in the next few months from Mexico, from |
| 1:46.6 | Mexico actually and I'm getting better with my Spanish too. On today's |
| 1:51.5 | podcast I'm going to talk a bit from my own running experience and as a run coach about |
| 1:56.7 | qualifying for Boston using Run Walk. In other words we're not just run walking to finish a race, we're actually running, walking with a goal in mind and I can help you understand how to make that happen. |
| 2:09.0 | This is so exciting for me. I've done it myself. Some of my Run clients and some of my Run Club have |
| 2:14.4 | utilized this technique to qualify for Boston and other time requirement races and |
| 2:19.8 | I want to share the information with you so you might want to try it yourself. |
| 2:25.2 | One of the biggest benefits of Run Walk Beyond the initial just getting people into it and |
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