The Running Public

Training Tuesday: The Best Trail & Mountain Workouts

Can you just do classic track workouts on the trails? Sure. But sometimes you need something specifically designed for your off road racing needs!

The Best WORST Bang For Your Buck Workouts

On Tuesday we covered the workouts that give you solid fitness benefits with very little recovery costs. Today we are taking the opposite stance: workouts that are crazy costly but have the potential for big improvements to your fitness and/or confidence!

Training Tuesday: The Best “Bang for Your Buck” Workouts

Minimum recovery costs; maximum fitness gain. These are the workouts we find to be most repeatable, manageable, and enjoyable! We choose multiple options each for Speed, Threshold, and Tempo sessions.

Episode 515: Play to Your Strengths

Running is hard! Are you playing to your strengths as a runner or just banging your head against the wall?

Training Tuesday: Back From Vacation

Kirk was in California crushing marathon workouts and big mountain runs. Brakken was in Sweden… cross training? 

Episode 513: Scott Frey - Cerebral Performance

Scott H. Frey, Ph.D., Ed.M., is an award-winning scientist, mentor, and lifelong endurance athlete. For the past 30 years, he led a research program that focused on understanding the relationship between the brain and human performance and is now applying his methods to endurance athletes around the world.

Visit cerebralperformance.com to learn more.

Episode 512: Michael Wardian

Professional runner and Guinness World Record holder Michael Wardian talks goals, recent runs and races, and his work with World Vision on a clean water initiative. 

Training Tuesday: Get to Know Your Stride

When pace, gps or hr fails you during a race, having a metronome stride you can fall back on to ensure that you are pacing correctly is a huge advantage!

Episode 510: Sean Roach

Sean is the founder and owner of Emergence Physical Therapy Strength and Running Performance Center in Redmond, Oregon, an ultra runner, and a holder of multiple Master’s power lifting records.

Training Tuesday: Lessons From Intervals

Workout One: 12x 1000m w/ 1:00 float recovery.

Workout Two: 10x 200m w/ 150m jog recovery.

 

Both workouts didn’t quite go as planned and adjustments had to be made during. What do you take away from a workout that goes awry?