Training Tuesday: How to Build a Training Plan (for Brakken)

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Last week we decided that Brakken needs to suck it, sign up for a race, and start training seriously. Today, we build him a 16 week training plan designed to address all the deficiencies he’s developed over the past few years of half-assed training.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.
0:12.4	It's Tuesday, folks, and you know what that means, Training Tuesday.
0:15.7	We are going to take every rabbit hole, follow tangents, use useless metaphors, get lost in the weeds.
0:22.4	This is Training Tuesday.
0:32.9	When you're ready to take your training or racing to the next level, go to the running public.com.
0:38.5	We have both monthly subscription training plans, $1999 a month, and Bracken and I both offer one-on-one customized coaching.
0:47.2	Again, go to the running public.com and check out our offerings.
0:51.4	Oh, you already started recording.
0:53.4	Okay. Rolling start it is. I didn't realize. Rolling start.
0:57.0	Yeah. You chugged. Okay. I think people are going to start thinking we have like a stimulant
1:04.5	problem because it's fair. It's like exciting when we get to record sometimes to have our, your fight milk, my whatever.
1:15.1	And you just.
1:15.6	That looks like fight milk.
1:17.0	This is.
1:17.7	It looks like crow's milk right there.
1:18.9	This is the sweet, sweet nectar of Mountain Dew.
1:21.9	This is eight ounces.
1:23.9	I have a two liter bottle of Mountain Dew and I poured myself eight ounces of the sweet,
1:27.9	sweet nectar. And it's good. I had a soda. I had two sodas to two sodas this past week. And Jack and I were
1:36.6	talking. He doesn't think he's had any since college. And I don't think I've had any in two years.
1:43.0	Wow. So I allow myself like a pour of soda, like twice a week usually associated with big sessions.
1:49.9	It's like extra sugar for recovery and it's perking me up so it's working.
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