THE CALL ROOM With Ben Flanagan | Episode 3: Hills and Valleys

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 3! A big recap of BU 5k, where Ben ran 13:11, NBGP, where he ran the 3k, and a race in Chicago where he paced. We also discuss current track news such as Millrose & 52 guys breaking four minutes in the mile at the same meet.

About THE CALL ROOM: Have you ever wondered what it looks like to train as a professional distance runner? What the day-to-day life looks like? How to handle setbacks, failure, adversity, and doubts? How to set goals, train for them, and execute them on race day? As outsiders, we see remarkable athletes accomplish remarkable things every year. We don't see the behind-the-scenes of what went into that remarkable performance. We don't see or understand the hours of hard work, struggle, doubt, etc. The Running Effect is here to bring you an inside look at all these things with the man, the myth, the legend, Ben Flanagan.

Ben Flanagan has cemented himself as one of the best Canadian runners of all time in his short four years of being a professional runner. He is the Canadian half-marathon record holder with a time of 61:00 and has won the prestigious Falmouth Road Race three years in a row (gaining the name "The King of Falmouth" in the process). In addition, he won the 2018 NCAA 10k title while competing for the University of Michigan. Ben is currently sponsored by On Running and is a member of VNTC based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Over the next two months, Ben and I will dive deep into his indoor campaign leading into The Ten, presented by Sound Running. We will go into his training, racing, mindset, and answer your questions along the way!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to episode three of the call room with Ben Flanagan. I'm your host
0:06.1	Dominic and I'm very excited for you to listen to today's episode because we had a lot of fun doing it.
0:12.3	Since the last time I spoke with Ben in episode two, he ran an incredibly fast 5K, he ran a competitive 3K
0:19.5	and then he had a pace job where he paced 5K, I believe, and then
0:23.9	ran the mile. We dissect all of these races. How his training has been going? How his outlook
0:28.6	is going into the 10, how his body's feeling, listening to your body. And then we also ended
0:34.9	off by talking about some current professional running news,
0:38.6	such as Milrose, 52 guys breaking four in the same meet, a lot of fun different topics in
0:43.8	today's episode that I'm sure you'll enjoy and be inspired and motivated by. One quick note
0:48.4	before we hop right in, I would greatly appreciate it if you hit the follow button and gave us a
0:52.3	five-star review. You're already listening to this episode, so it will legitimately take you like five to ten seconds to do, and it greatly
0:59.2	helps us. So I hope you all enjoy episode three of the call room with the one and only, Ben Flanagan.
1:09.0	And welcome back to episode three of the call room with yourself, Ben Flanagan.
1:13.0	How are you doing this afternoon?
1:14.2	I'm good, man. I'm good. Ready for round three. Let's do it.
1:17.4	Let's do it. First question for you, at least in Tledo, so it's guaranteed to be the same in
1:22.1	Ann Arbor. It's heating up. There's some signs of the sun, some signs of the spring.
1:26.6	You're excited for the warmer weather
1:28.2	it's beautiful i cannot wait i um i've gotten pretty comfortable on the indoor track but um you know
1:34.5	once you get a sniff of that uh warmer weather it's it's hard to beat so i can't wait to get rippin outside
1:40.3	so we'll recap all of these races but over the past few weeks since the last time we
1:45.0	talked, you've been to Chicago, you've been to two separate locations in Boston. Curious,
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