Running Rogue

It's a milestone episode for me - number 300 - which represents 6 years of podcasting consistency. For this one, I ring in the milestone and the end of 2022 with 9 reflections on the year from my per…

What do you ultimately want from this sport and how do you get there? Those are big questions that can be hard to answer because it is often hard to prioritize and focus on what matters the most. Tha…

Thank you to Victoria from Florida for this episode topic suggestion. Solo vs. group training... which is better for you?

Either can be great options depending on what is right for you. In this episo…

Winter is coming, and it's just over a week away! For many of you, winter invites challenges to motivation and to the basic logistics of training safely. In this episode, I give you six tips to maint…

We like to complicate recovery by focusing on the latest whizz-bang tools and modalities that might be all the rage. Recovery, however, is actually very simple, and in most cases, absolutely free. In…

2:23 vs 2:39? Which is a better result for a marathoner?

It would be easy to say the faster time, but Des Linden might disagree. She ran 2:39 in 2018 to win Boston. She also ran 2:23 in 2011 to place…

As a coach, I know at least two things for certain:

1. Everyone faces pre-race nerves and doubts regardless of your background and experience.

2. The pre-race nerves never go away, but you will becom…

Most of us measure ourselves in all of the wrong ways, and it leads to injury, overtraining, burnout, and under performance.

In this episode, I give you 7 ways to re-frame how you measure success in …

In this episode, Nicole Winter (@nicolemruns) asks me questions from her followers about final race week preparations. We discuss everything from choosing a race pace to race week eating to the taper…

One of the biggest mistakes I see made in training is a lack of variation within a training cycle and certainly across training cycles. If you want to reach your goals, you need to make sure that you…

In this episode, I talk about the age-old question for marathoners and half marathoners - should I carbo load before my big race?

My answer might surprise you and is likely different than the prevail…

Training mileage is a topic which encompasses the majority of questions I receive on a weekly basis. In particular, runners want to know how to build mileage, how to do it safely, and how much to do …

In this episode, I am joined by fellow running podcasters - Angie and Trevor from the Marathon Training Academy. We give quick intros on us and then get to questions from each of our audiences. We go…

Last week, Kara shared a tweet that inspired me. It read:

First-time marathoners have a very special place in my heart as a coach. It is powerful and very inspiring to watch someone cover 26.2 miles for the first time. In this episode, I give 12 tips to hel…

Managing running injuries is hard for so many reasons. One reason is that the prevailing wisdom on these injuries is generally just wrong, making it very hard to know the right things to do.

In this …

On this show, I talk a lot about the mechanics of training and the X's and O's of each period in training. In many ways, that's the easy part. It's the what-to-do in training part including the worko…

In this episode, I give you a mini-smorgasbord of topics from recent questions I've received from athletes. 

First of all, I talk about the practical elements of training in the heat including how to…

Do you want to do this sport for a lifetime AND smash big goals along the way?!? Then, this episode is for you.

In it, I break down 18 intangible and tangible factors that will help you enjoy this sp…