s3/e24 How Masters Runners Can Train to Stay Competitive with Dr. Eoin Everard, PhD
The Running Explained Podcast
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How can we stay competitive with our running as we age? That is the central question posed to our guest this week, Dr. Eoin Everard, PhD, biomechanist, physiotherapist, and current World and European Over-35 3k Champion!
-How to extend high performance into your 40s and beyond
-What a newer runner might expect from their ability to perform when starting in their late 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond
-What do we need to know about how our bodies change as we age?
-Ways to modify your training appropriately as a masters runner
-Nontraditional microcycle lengths
-Normal wear & tear vs running related injuries
-Addressing low-grade back pain
-Reframing what "competitive" means for you
-and more!
Dr. Eoin Everard is a physiotherapist with a PhD in Biomechanics. He’s also a sub-4 minute miler, a sub-14 minute 5k runner, and a five-time Irish National Champion in the 1500 and 3000m. He is the founder of everardpilates.com and has written a book called How To Get To The Line in the Best Shape Possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner or you've been doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is Dr. |
| 0:27.1 | Owen Everard. Dr. Everard has quite the resume. He has a PhD in biomechanics. He is currently working |
| 0:32.6 | as a physiotherapist, and he has run sub 14 minutes for the 5K and sub four minutes for the mile. |
| 0:38.4 | He is also the current world and European over 35 3K champion. |
| 0:43.8 | His background and professional experience makes him the perfect guess to talk about our |
| 0:47.3 | subject today, which is how do we stay competitive as we age? |
| 0:51.4 | How can we keep being as competitive as possible as we age? And everybody is going to have a |
| 0:56.7 | different definition of what competitive means. For some people, it is going to be becoming the |
| 1:00.4 | world and European over 35 3K champion. For some people, it's going to be winning their age group. |
| 1:05.0 | For some people, it's going to be, can I still do the things I love to do? So everybody's journey is a little bit different. |
| 1:11.6 | But how can we keep that fire stoked to stay as competitive as possible for as long as possible as we age? |
| 1:20.6 | Dr. Owen Everard, welcome to the show. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm excited to have you here. |
| 1:24.2 | Elizabeth, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm really, really excited to be on this podcast. |
| 1:27.7 | So all my guests have to answer this question. I love it because the answers are so diverse. |
| 1:32.5 | How did you become a runner? Yeah, so I would have started running very early, like maybe at like |
| 1:38.7 | 10, 11. My mom would have brought me down to a local race. Funny enough actually, there was an under 10s |
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