Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Coach Elizabeth. When I started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. So now I'm here to answer all your questions about running and running adjacent topics to help you become a better, smarter, more knowledgeable runner. Whether you're brand new or you've been doing this for a while,

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My guest this week is Dr. Phil Batterson, returning to the show this year after coming on the show

last year where he talked about the physiology of muscle fatigue in the context of endurance running.

And today we are talking about double threshold training, aka the Norwegian method

of training, which involves, spoiler alert, running two threshold workouts in one day,

aka double threshold training. Right off the bat, we are very clear that this is not something

that the vast majority of runners should or could even implement

into their training. But it's interesting to talk about the nuance. It does seem to be working

for a specific subset of athletes, but they're using this in a way that I think that the

everyday athlete would be surprised about what they're focusing on and not focusing on in their training.

And we also talk about really actionable ways that you, the regular non-elite runner, can understand how to train more precisely, more effectively, and specifically in the context of understanding your lactate threshold and how to

measure it in training really great useful nuggets of info here so I really hope you enjoy this

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