30. Embracing your Inner Ninja with Megan Roche

This week, I had the pleasure of talking to one of my favorite running coaches who I’ve looked up to for years, Megan Roche.

You may know her from SWAP running or the SWAP podcast that she hosts with her husband, David Roche. Or maybe you know her from their book, The Happy Runner. And if you don’t know Megan, she is also an amazing runner herself, coach, MD, PHD candidate in epidemiology and one of the most positive, supportive people I’ve ever met.

Here are some of the topics you can expect in this episode:

Embracing your inner ninja

Injecting fun and play into your running

Building the aerobic base alongside reinforcing speed

Data free days

Learning to run by feel

Training for the long term & dreaming big

The importance of having a why

Balancing scientific studies and anecdotes

Open-mindedness and flexibility in coaching

Coach-athlete relationships & being fully yourself

Dealing with negativity

Coaching a diverse range of athletes

Her pregnancy journey

This conversation was the highlight of my week, and I hope y'all enjoy this as much as we did.

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