Training Tuesday: The Need for Speed

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

“Speed Work” is one of the most misunderstood and misapplied types of quality workouts! We all want to be fast, but how fast do we need to be running in training? Today’s episode breaks down what speed work is, common misconceptions, and how to implement it in your schedule (assuming you’re training for an event that is 5k or longer!).

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0:00.0	You're listening to the running public.
0:13.1	From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.
0:16.6	Get to the finish line faster.
0:18.3	That's right.
0:19.1	This podcast is for you guys, the running public.
0:28.6	This is the running public's training Tuesday.
0:32.4	Training Tuesday is where we talk about training only.
0:35.4	One topic, we dive deep, we explore it completely.
0:38.6	It's training.
0:39.3	It's Tuesday.
0:40.3	Training Tuesday.
0:42.0	Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.
0:44.3	All right, two weeks ago, I did a 7,500 foot hill rep workout and my quads and a little
0:51.9	bit of hips were really, really sore yesterday and i've worked
0:58.3	out all throughout this and done some quality work i go and do another hill workout but this time on a
1:03.2	staircase and my achilles soleus calves back of my legs are so shot this morning. You ever feel that difference between two
1:14.2	different types of hills, how it rocks front versus back completely differently? 100%, especially
1:20.3	cement hills. You might as well say good, or cement stairs. You might as well say goodbye to your calves for the
1:25.4	next three to six days, for example.
1:28.7	So shot.
1:30.8	And I didn't rip any dissents.
1:33.2	I was going to say, and it can be from going down, even if you're not going down hard,
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