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With the many conversations and great ideas shared in the last year, we decided to take a moment and reflect on our top three lessons learned in 2021 about life and running.
Stick around after that for recent news from the world of running, including a pro runner’s comments about Whoop, a new Diamond League meet, and a new rule about shoes.
INTRO
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- Thanks for all of your interaction this year!
MAIN TOPIC: LESSONS LEARNED IN 2021
Lessons Learned in 2021…
ANDI:
- Getting my mindset right…
- “I knew I was in the right place because the overwhelming feeling I was having was gratitude.”
- Courtney Frerichs, Confidence with Courtney Frerichs, episode 107
- Courtney discussed tackling confidence head-on to prepare herself for bold moves at the Olympic Games
- Alicia Monson spoke about this topic too in episode 69, what makes a great race. Where she explained how you play out every scenario good or bad and imagine overcoming them all.
- “I knew I was in the right place because the overwhelming feeling I was having was gratitude.”
- Find a way. Venture on.
- How can Runners Sustain Long Term Progress with Nate Martin, episode 68
- For me, a form change to increase speed without pushing effort, a step back, currently looking at surgery.
- What do I need to do to level up, I need to be healthy and have solid foundations.
- Fitness over time is where the money is at.
- I knew this, but to have it explained so simply and scientifically by Todd Buckingham was the encouragement I needed as a late bloomer in the sport.
- The size and number of our mitochondria can increase throughout the years, as do the number of the capillaries.
- The Science of Building Fitness with Todd Buckingham, episode 87
ZACH:
- No wasted minutes
- Marty Hehir (from How can busy runners train? Published on February 8th)
- The idea that every minute has a name (reminds me of Dave Ramsey – every dollar has a name… time budgeting vs. money budgeting… same idea)
- Time is scarce, budget wisely!
- Karl: reminded about how many minutes vanish when all I am doing is tapping about my phone
- Strength and mobility isn’t as much about getting it right as it is about doing it
- Adam Homolka (from What can runners do to prevent injury? Published on March 8th)
- Variety matters, but there aren’t magic bullets
- Talk a lot about functional movement as a focal point
- The main question is where am I weak
- Injury is an opportunity to get better
- Phil Wharton (from Back Health published on September 14th)
- Injuries do two things:
- reveal an issue, a chink the armor
- Provide time/space to rebuild stronger than before
- Been talking with a lot of people about this lately…
- My own injury
WORLD OF RUNNING
#1. Colleen Quigley endorses Whoop
(from Sport Techie)
- “Runners are so obsessed with splits and times and paces, and we don’t ever really, truly measure effort. If you ran a 5:30 tempo on the track, versus running 5:30 tempo pace on a gravel trail with hills, you get the same credit for both of those activities, even though one would have been much harder.”
- Discussed the strain score, difference in hard day vs. easy day strain scores…
- Interesting stuff, BUT…
- Missing the point: effort isn’t an output. It is an input.
- So when you are measuring effort by output you are still training in a reactionary fashion.
- The goal should be the opposite: train yourself to give the appropriate effort (you control how much effort you are giving)
#2. Wanda Diamond League meeting in the Chinese city of Shenzhen in 2022.
(According to World Athletics)
- As announced on Tuesday (21), the new league meeting will take place on August 6th at the 40,000-capacity Bao’an Stadium, as the world’s best athletes return to Wanda Diamond League action after the World Athletics Championships in July.
- According to the Diamond League website, the distance events will include:
- Women’s 800m
- Men’s 1500m or Mile
- Women’s 3000m or 5000
- Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
- Allocation of Diamond League Disciplines
#3. World Athletics tightens rule on shoes
(From worldathletics.org)
- After the road shoes got crazy, WA made a rule about track shoes that limited stack height to 25mm (recall that road height is 40mm)
- That was about when Nike produced a track equivalent of the super shoes
- Now WA is saying 20mm, which as we know from the super shoe stuff, stack height is a piece of the magic
- WA notes that potential for performance enhancement was part of the decision
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