Some lessons in running span generations.
This week we have another 2-part special with one of America’s best from the 1980s and a current rising star.
Both will share the secret sauce to their success. More importantly,
during the podcast you’ll get to hear and connect how their approaches
to training, while different, share the same common threads. Lessons you
can apply to your training.
Benji Durden
Our
first part features Benji Durden, one of the country’s best marathoners
in the early 1980′s. A largely self-coached athlete who later coached
former RunnersConnect interview guest Kim Jones, Benji now runs a race timing company in Boulder, CO.
Like many of his running contemporaries, Benji ran a great deal of
races, even in the middle of marathon build-ups and often only 2 days
after his longest run of the week.
Some of the key points included:
Benji’s training and how he blended frequent racing into marathon trainingThe potential benefits of frequent racing and why every race doesn’t need to be test of one’s full potentialThe nuts and bolts of timing races (a nice insight to how you get timed for all those races you run)Christo Landry
In
our second part we welcome Christo Landry, who has been on a tear
through the U.S. road racing circuit this year, winning 3 U.S. titles at
different distances.
Some of the key points included:
How Christo maintains top racing fitness for a long period of time and over different distancesSome key workouts that form the basis of his training programChristo’s plan to stretch his success at shorter races into a good marathon this coming fallThis is a great podcast that highlights and compares the underlying
training philosophy of every elite runners training schedule while
contrasting the subtle personalization that makes it work for them.
Hopefully, this will help you understand and establish the basics of
training in your own schedule while creating the tweaks that make it
work for you.