Mojo For Running Podcast
Mojo for Running Coach Debbie Voiles presents training principles and running news. From beginners to marathoners, all runners will learn how to make wise training decisions. Topics include training schedule, base building, tapering, cross training, speed work, stretching, nutrition, drills, and much more. Learn how to train smart to achieve your goals.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 163
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2024
MFR 164: Hill Racing Strategy
With the right hill racing strategy and the finesse learned in the last episode, you'll be ready to crush any hill in any race, knowing that you have an edge over the other runners, knowing that your…
MFR 163: Hill Training as Speedwork and Hill-Running Technique
For most people, running hills is an element of running to tolerate, but to the wise, properly trained and knowledgeable runner, hills provide an avenue to faster running and faster races. Between im…
MFR 162: HIIT Training for Speedwork
High intensity interval training has been a recognized training modality for a dozen years, now, and over that time its effectiveness and versatility have proven it to be worthy of inclusion in the t…
MFR 161: Progression Runs
Progression runs do wonders for speed, endurance, and fitness, preparing the runner to run faster farther into their race, hopefully, ideally throughout their race, but also offering a wide range of …
MFR: 160: Tempo Runs
MFR 159: Six Activities to Add to Track Workouts to Make Them More Fun and More Effective
While a good track workout is always effective, adding other activities between sets will magnify the impact and make speed workouts more fun. As a result, you're likely to be more consistent with sp…
MFR 158: Repeats and Intervals
Learn all about classic track workouts and the variety of ways they can be structured to meet any runner's training goals.
All speedwork can be broken down into two categories, short speedwork, usual…
MFR 157: Speedwork, how and when to incorporate speedwork into your running training
To get faster or stronger or even to build endurance, every experienced runner needs speedwork. This is the first of a series of episodes on speedwork for runners, what is a speedworkout, who should …
MFR 156: The Challenge of Holiday Running and the Mojo for Running December Challenge
The month of December tests our running training more than any other as holiday events too often steal running hours. Our already hectic schedules get still busier, increasing stress levels, meaning …
MFR 155: Head to Toe, a Close Look at How to Move and Where to Look When You Run
Let's go back to the basics of how to move when you run, head to toe, from where to look, to the nuances of effective arm technique, what not to do and physical cues to help with practicing good runn…
MFR 154: Fun With Fartlek Training
Any runner or group of runners, of any level, can make up a fartlek workout on the fly, or pull out one of the traditional, time-tested fartlek workouts. Fartleks are especially good for injecting a …
MFR 153: How to Choose the Best Training Plan for Any Race
Running success hinges on preparation. Crossing the finish line is the easy part, a celebration, the apex of all the training that prepared you to be there, the celebration of a well executed running…
MFR 152: How to Taper for Goal Races, and What it Can Do for Race Performance
The almighty taper is a thing of beauty. Most experienced runners, and certainly any runner who's trained with a coach, knows about this masterpiece of training theory. No amount or type of training,…
MFR 151: How to Structure Your Running Training When You're Self Coached
One of the main attractions of running is the sheer simplicity of it. Running requires one thing, a pair of shoes - well, two things.
That simplicity is a thing of beauty, but to take it to any leve…
MFR 150: Treadmill Running and the Indoor Training Mindset
What a treadmill lacks in the way of the scenery and fresh air of an outdoor run, it makes up for in convenience and other benefits. Yes, there are reasons why anyone might do well to train on a trea…
MFR 149: Rebounder for Running Training
I'm always looking for new ways to improve my fitness and enhance my running training, and one of my favorite is the mini trampoline, also known as a rebounder, which I use for 'rebounder running,' r…
MFR 148: Upcoming Topics, the Problem of Locked 'Public' Tracks, and a Promise
Coach Deb Voiles announces topics for many upcoming episodes and shares the topics for the next dozen, expanding on an episode that will highlight the national problem of runners being locked out of …
MFR 147: How to Run Trails
Running trails requires different technical running skills, a different outlook, and different equipment, but it is so beyond worth it, and if that's not enough, your on-road running will greatly imp…
MFR 146: Six Reasons Every Runner Should Run Off Road
On and off-road miles are not equal. Off-road miles make you a better runner, make you more fit, and make you more sane.
A mile in the woods holds greater value than any on-road mile.
Running in the …
MFR #145: How to Make Your Easy Runs Work for You
Optimize your running training by properly applying the hard easy principle.
You must keep your easy runs easy and your hard runs hard to get the desired training effect.
Most runners are driven to …