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The Strength Running Podcast

Training Myths & Best Practices with 2:09 Marathoner Thomas Nobbs

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Nobbs is a running coach with 10+ years of experience and newly minted 2:09 marathoner - making him Canada's 4th fastest marathoner ever!

He joins us to discuss training myths and best practices: 

  • Training "myths" and overblown ideas
  • Trends in the running community
  • When it's a good idea / bad idea to model elite runners
  • The most impactful levers to pull for marathon improvement for 3-4 hour marathoners

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ready, set, go!

0:04.4

This is episode 458 with 209 marathoner, the fourth fastest Canadian marathoner ever,

0:12.4

and someone who did all that training on a treadmill, Thomas Nobs. Welcome to the Strength Running podcast. I'm Coach Jason Fitzgerald, and I want to help you become a better runner. Don't miss

0:31.9

Strengthrunning.com, our home base, where you can find training programs, our award-winning content

0:37.2

library, and our free email courses. And by the way, where you can find training programs, our award-winning content library, and

0:38.4

our free email courses. And by the way, if you haven't listened to last week's episode, I think

0:44.2

you should. It's the perfect companion to this conversation because I spoke with Thomas Knob's

0:49.1

coach. You'll be able to hear about his training from his coach's perspective, and then today,

0:54.8

straight from Tom himself. It was just published last week, so don't miss that episode with

0:59.7

Coach Brandt Statchel. Now, I couldn't do this podcast without the help of our partners.

1:05.6

If you get value from the show, you can support us by supporting our sponsors.

1:10.4

We are supported by lever, a treadmill

1:12.6

tool that you might have seen in a physical therapist's office or pro runners using. It helps

1:17.3

you return to running after an injury or increase your mileage with less injury risk. Lever

1:23.2

attaches to any treadmill and you hook into it like a harness. It effectively makes you lighter,

1:28.6

enabling you to run more volume than you normally could with reduced injury risk, or helping

1:34.0

you return to running after an injury. Lever allows you to do more running with less risk.

1:39.6

So maybe you want to build more mileage or run hard workouts, but you're hesitant because of injury

1:45.2

concerns. The pros have been using lever for years, letting them get the advantage of more training

1:50.7

with fewer injuries. Now, I had the chance to go for a run using lever, and it was deceptively

1:56.8

easy to set up and use. All of a sudden, I was running seven-minute mile pace with the heart rate

2:01.9

of an 8.30 mile pace. You can see it in action on Strength Running's YouTube channel. Now, they're also

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