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The Running Public

Training Tuesday #53: Good Fitness vs Race Fitness

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Sports:running, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness

5691 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We've all seen it: a guy or girl we know who is SUPER fit shows up to a competition and just gets smoked. How is this possible? What is the missing link between great overall workout fitness and great race day fitness?

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0:00.0

You're listening to the running public.

0:13.2

From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.

0:16.5

Get to the finish line faster.

0:18.3

That's right.

0:19.0

This podcast is for you guys, the running public.

0:28.5

This is the running public's Training Tuesday. Training Tuesday is where we talk about training

0:34.6

only. One topic, we dive deep deep we explore it completely it's training

0:39.1

it's tuesday training tuesday tuesday uh bracken we haven't talked in a few days

0:47.0

no you went dark i did go dark um i almost feel like a bad friend because i saw you kind of had

0:53.7

yourself a weekend, Kirk.

0:56.4

Uh-huh. Do you have a bottle of whiskey and a trophy to your name?

1:00.3

I have one of the two, though. Bottle is the trophy because it's engraved.

1:04.1

Oh, okay. Tell me about your weekend, Bracken. What happened?

1:07.7

I raced. I ran an obstacle course race or any running race. Not counting

1:12.7

high rocks, this was my first competition since September of 2019. And counting high rocks,

1:17.9

it's the first competition since January of 2020. My goodness. And you won. I did.

1:25.0

This is a race I've been super curious about and I secretly wanted to come down and

1:28.9

just, you know, butt heads with you. The abominable snow race. So this is probably the fifth time I've

1:34.7

done it. It was unlike any other year. Okay. To cut down on common touch points, they had no obstacles.

1:42.1

Exercise stations or something. Six exercise stations with two to three movements or requirements per station.

1:50.0

So for example, the first station was 20 burpee barrel rolls.

1:55.0

You had to flop down in the snow, roll over, jump up.

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