What Can You Do Today, To Achieve Your Goals Tomorrow- Dirk Friel
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Hiring a coach to help train can get expensive, but today we are going to hear from Dirk Friel, the Founder and CEO of TrainingPeaks about why it's a good idea to consider a coach.
Or, If you are an experienced runner and thinking about becoming a coach, Dirk has some great advice for you.
Some of the topics that you'll hear about include:
- Dirk's background growing up with fitness.
- Dirks journey from chasing his d [...]
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The peeking process is very difficult, you know, in order to peak by definition you have to lose fitness, you know, and so how do you reconcile that in your mind as an athlete? |
| 0:10.4 | I'm losing fitness, but my race is eight days away you know and well you know what you |
| 0:15.6 | have to lose fitness in order to peak and let the form shine and come through. |
| 0:22.3 | Welcome to the runners connect run to the Runters Connect Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:31.0 | So together, we can train us smarter, healthier, and better. in this Hello, this is Tina Muir. Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Runners Connect |
| 0:49.3 | Run to the Top Podcast. So last week we talked to Stephanie and Ben Bruce who are role models to so many |
| 0:56.2 | of us for the way they're able to handle two professional running careers and two young |
| 1:00.8 | boys who are only nine months apart, but they're also really real and |
| 1:05.3 | genuine and not afraid to show their struggles. So if you didn't listen to that one last |
| 1:09.6 | week, make sure you go back and check it out. |
| 1:12.6 | Now if you've known of Runners Connect for a while, |
| 1:15.2 | you probably know that we believe the best thing |
| 1:18.2 | any runner can do is get themselves a coach. |
| 1:21.6 | But I know, I know, it's's really expensive why do you need to it's just |
| 1:25.9 | running there's probably some of the things you're thinking well today you're |
| 1:29.7 | going to hear from Dirk Freel who's the founder and CEO of Training Peaks, who's going to convince you that no |
| 1:36.1 | matter what level of runner or triathlete or cyclist or kayaker or anything, you are. Having having a coach having that outside opinion is going to make a huge difference |
| 1:46.8 | If you're an experienced runner you might actually get something different out of it and maybe actually you could become the coach and help other runners with |
| 1:54.0 | their running journeys. |
| 1:55.8 | So I've been a huge fan of training peaks for years and I think after this episode you will |
| 1:59.9 | see why. |
| 2:01.2 | Runners Connect and Training Peaks have a lot of the same philosophy as when it comes to |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.