The Running Shorts Podcast
Running news, commentary, and training talk.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
The Australian “complex” system of training
Simple….formulaic…year-round…progressive…all systems go…training.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:16:42 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
John “HADD”, Lydiard, and the long, continuous, steady-state approach.
Following in Lydiard’s footsteps. John Walsh (aka HADD), heart rate training, and building the base of the pyramid.
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00:23:57 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Strength Training for Distance Runners
Leaving no stone (or dumbbell) unturned in your training.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:20:55 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
The path to excellence: Coach Joe Vigil’s philosophy of training
The pack is only as strong as the wolf and the wolf is only as strong as the pack.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:22:12 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
The Oregon System
Bowerman, Dellinger, and the competitive runner’s guide to training.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:25:11 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
The Stotan training methods of Percy Cerutty
Chop wood, read poetry, and run like an animal.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:19:35 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Pereira, Cabral, and the Portuguese training method
How Carlos Lopes won Portugal’s first gold medal at the Olympics (1984) and ran a WR 2:07:12 marathon a year later at age 38.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email run12795@…
00:26:57 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Summer of Malmo
Doubling, running within yourself, running by feel, and maintaining your leg turnover.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:15:43 |
Wed 28 May 2025
The Norwegian method for amateur runners (part 3, the marathon)
The sirpoc special block. How to adapt the original method to fit the marathon.
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00:29:53 |
Tue 13 May 2025
The ‘hour of power’ training method
Norm Green, Michael Musyoki, and the threshold model of training intensity distribution.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:16:02 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Train hard and kick ass (like 2-time Olympian Todd Williams did)
Todd’s Gate River Run 15K course record lasted 30 years.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:22:56 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Thoughts on Grand Slam Track
My fun solution to “the problem of track and field” if there is one.
Post-recording thoughts:
Points should also be awarded to a runner for leading (per lap).
Alternatively, we eliminate points al…
Post-recording thoughts:
Points should also be awarded to a runner for leading (per lap).
Alternatively, we eliminate points al…
00:20:58 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
The Japanese way of training
The Japanese are not afraid of mileage and they’re not afraid of going too slow.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:26:52 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
The Norwegian method for amateur runners (part 2)
Add me to the growing number of amateur runners who have thrived under this method. After just 9 months of this training, I’ve gone from 19:30 to 17:03, and that 17:03 was my first race as a 40 year …
00:54:31 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
Paula Radcliffe’s training
How Paula maximized her potential in the marathon.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:20:47 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
The training that led to the current WR in the men’s marathon (2:00:35)
Honoring Kelvin Kiptum’s memory one year after the crash.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:21:08 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Igloi Training
High volume, multi-pace, interval based training.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strava.
00:31:05 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
The power of cross training (e.g. Parker Valby and Keely Hodgkinson)
Training for injury prone runners. If you are a broken down runner or someone that is always getting hurt, this method might be for you.
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , emai…
00:27:04 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
The rise and fall of Ryan Hall, Terrance Mahon’s coaching, and the training that produced 59:43/2:04:58*
Will Klecker, Bor, or Mantz break the 18 year-old American record at the Houston Half this year?
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To submit your thoughts, questions, or overall feedback , email [email protected] or find me on Strav…
00:26:48 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Where does my passion for training come from?
I have a feeling this episode won’t age very well but I wanted to be as open and as vulnerable as possible with where I’m at in life right now and with this thing that has all but dominated my life o…
00:24:00 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
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