Steve's View: Training Correctly, Quitting Pro Running, and Pregnancy -R4R 019
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
My husband Steve is on the Running for Real podcast this week in this special edition for my birthday in a few days. This episode is essentially broken into three parts; the serious training and how you can be a faster runner, his version of my amenorrhea recovery, what life is like with a pregnant Tina.
We discuss training philosophies and the mistakes runners make over and over again...and why it leads to injuries and disappointing results if you do not correct the training mistakes. We talk about why effort based training really is the best way to approach your running, regardless of where in the world you live or what you are training for. Steve talks about collegiate running, and how he learned what worked best for each athlete, situation, and location.
We then talk about dealing with the loss of periods, and my decision to stop running at the pro level to get my menstrual cycles to return. He also shares why he is proud of me (ahh). Although I haven't had any particularly strange cravings, you will laugh at what we do share.
We dive into the past, the present, and the future, and this is one to get a closer look into the life of this husband and wife. Steve may be a LOT quieter and less open than me, but I think you are going to love getting to know him.
Today's Guest
Steve Picucci
My husband, coach, and resident psychologist. Steve is the Head Coach at Division I university Morehead State in Kentucky, he coached me through all my PB's and has helped hundreds of other runners to run faster than they ever thought they could.
Resources Mentioned
- Last week's episode with Bonnie Kelly
- Tina & Steve's effort based Marathon Training Plan
- Tina & Steve's effort based Half Marathon Training Plan
Thanks to GetVi for sponsoring the Running for Real Podcast, you can enter to win a free VI, by clicking this link.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You have to get to the line ready. You don't have to be a hundred percent. I mean if everything goes great and you get there perfect build-up, yeah, you'll be 100 percent ready to go, but the mistake you see a lot of people make is they don't make it to the |
| 0:13.6 | start lender they make it to the start line with you know what 50% |
| 0:17.6 | this is running for real the podcast for runners who know that for every |
| 0:21.6 | runners high there are just as many lows |
| 0:24.4 | all those just missed PRs easy runs that feel hard injury blues and more |
| 0:29.8 | each week we'll talk to running, health, and wellness experts about their highs, lows, |
| 0:35.3 | and best advice to build our confidence. |
| 0:38.3 | Running for real is about being honest, being brave, and most of all all not feeling alone. |
| 0:44.0 | And now here's our host whose lifetime highlights so far include meeting Brian from the |
| 0:48.8 | Backstreet boys, Tina Muir. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello my friends and welcome to episode 19 of the Running for Real Podcast. |
| 0:56.7 | I have a bit of a special one for you here because my birthday is just a few days away if you are listening to this on the Friday. |
| 1:04.8 | If you're listening to this after the Friday, maybe you're listening on my birthday. |
| 1:08.7 | But either way, I am celebrating with friends and family right now. |
| 1:13.3 | Steve and I have just been to England |
| 1:15.3 | to visit my friends and family, |
| 1:17.0 | and I was in a wedding. |
| 1:18.9 | So I have not had time to really think about work too much so I wanted to get this episode to give you |
| 1:24.3 | something a bit more of a personal one to my usual episodes but before I begin about today |
| 1:30.3 | so last week I talked to Bonnie Kelly who had her advice on kind of how to stop with |
| 1:35.8 | the insecurities you know how we always feel like we aren't good enough and she |
| 1:40.7 | helped us to find our belief in who we are again. It sounds a bit kind of woo, |
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