Inside Running Podcast

124: Linden Hall

Episode 124 is sponsored by COROS. COROS Wearables may be the newest GPS watch brand on the market, but they have already partnered with some of the best road, trail and mountain athletes in the world. Do yourself a favor and check out the brand Runner’s World named Gear of the Year in 2019.
 
The boys recap their weeks and talk about the cancellations of races due Covid-19. All 3 hosts had races cancelled with Rotterdam and London Marathon postponed and Brad’s 5km cancelled.
 
They also answer listener questions about what you should do with your current fitness and how to manage the uncertainty of the lack of racing.
 
In running news, there is VMC 800 and 1500m results, fast times at the Melbourne University 5km and the South Australian 3000m champs.
 
This week’s interview is with Australian 1500m record holder, Linden Hall. Linden talks about her upbringing in the sport and her rise to the top of Australian 1500m running. She discusses her time over in American and racing over there before going into great detail about her Commonwealth Games 4th place finish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fDjAONK1E&t=56s and what’s coming up in her build up for Tokyo. Follow Linden @linden.hall
 
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IRP with Soph and Lydia

The girls are back! Soph catches up with Lydia O'Donnell to hear all about her running story. More information on Lydia can be found at: www.lydiaodonnell.com
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123: Wayne Larden

This episode of Inside Running Podcast is proudly brought to you by New Balance. The global athletic leader is excited to announce an update to their award-winning Fresh Foam platform, Fresh Foam X.
 
Brad is back covering the ground the best he has in years and nails some fast times in workouts and jogs leading into the Bankstown 5km this weekend.
 
Moose nails a big 30km tempo after hitting the drink too hard to celebrate his 34th birthday.
 
Brady hits the speed work and a hilly long run in preparation for Rotterdam Marathon.
 
This week in running news:
-Liam Adams runs a huge PB in Lake Biwa to nail an Olympic Qualifying time.
-The Australian Half Marathon team gets selected but then the race gets postponed.
-There’s fast times in Nagoya marathon with Australian’s Sinead Diver and Ellie Pashley helping out with the pace making.
 
The listener question this week asks about bang for you buck 30 minute workouts for all abilities.
 
Moose goes on the loose about Japanese Marathon cut off times and inconsistencies.
 
This week’s interview is with Wayne Larden. Wayne talks with Brad about his training and racing years before going into detail about the organisation as Race Director of the Sydney Running Festival.
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122: Riley Wolff

122: Riley Wolff
This week's episode is sponsored by New Balance.
Brad makes his triumphant return to the track, taking out a 3000m over Em Brichacek.Julian wins the 10K River Run in Geelong at the end of a long run and gets his IRP singlet back.Brady almost Lopez Lomong’s his hour long fartlek and gets comfortable in the 30k efforts.
US Olympic Marathon Trials was full of suspense, Galen Rupp taking out the Men’s race selected with Jacob Riley coached by Lee Troop and Abdi Abdirahman in his 5th team.On the women's, Aliphine Tuliamuk and Molly Siedel break away to secure their spots on the Olympic team along with Sally Kipyego.
Seth James Demoor's Atlanta Marathon Trials
https://youtu.be/ULllZWDY6yQ
 
Tokyo Marathon featuring Suguru Osako lowering his own Japanese National Record 2:05:29, cashing in on the Project Exceed initiative. The race was won by Birhanu Legese, with crazy depth on display. On the women’s side Lonah Chemtai Salpeter set both an Israeli National Record and Tokyo Course Record. Results
 
Liam Adams reclaims Australian parkrun record at Maribyrnong 14:13 ahead of Lake Biwa Marathon on March 8th
Maribyrnong parkrun results 
 
Kenenisa Bekele wins the Big Half in London in emphatic style ahead of the London Marathon in April.BBC Report
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9L_U_fDtMi/
Listener question of the week asks what the highest paid race in Australia while Moose on the Loose wonders aloud whether Jim Walmsley under-performed on US Olympic Trials.
Photographer, editor of running publication Tempo Journal and co-founder of Hunter Athletics Riley Wolff talks with Julian about promoting running on the global stage. Riley talks about how he draws his personal enjoyment from running, his professional background at Adidas and MAAP and starting Hunter Athletics to fill a gap, building and supporting an open and supportive culture.
Riley then talks about making running cool through his photography and writing for Tempo Journal, profiling and putting Australian running on the global stage and his level of involvement with Speed Project (along with its afterparty).
He goes into why Nike is pushing running forward and the level of promotion required for rising stars and coolest MFs in running right now lining up for the upcoming LA Marathon, how media clearance for World Major Marathons works and capturing those magic race day moments .
 
Hunter AthleticsTempo Journal online and InstagramRiley Wolff @thewolfferine

121: Nick Earl

This weeks episode is proudly brought to you by New Balance. The global athletic leader is excited to announce an update to their award-winning Fresh Foam platform, Fresh Foam X.
Using the latest advancements in data to design, Fresh Foam X is New Balance's premium collection of their most elite Fresh Foam shoes. The Fresh Foam X collection debuts with the New Balance 1080v10 which is available now at select retailers and www.newbalance.com.au
 
Julian gets stuck into his London Marathon program, under the watchful eye of Mona.Brad has fun with his fast shoes and his favourite session.Brady clocks a monster 50Km day in his Rotterdam campaign.New women’s world record set by Ethiopia’s Ababel Yeshaneh in 64:31, over Brigid Kosgei at the RAK Half Marathon with some eye-opening splits.World Athletics Report
 
Women’s 1500m goes down to the wire with Linden Hall edging Jenny Blundell and Georgia Griffith while, Peter Bol & Joseph Deng dominate the Men’s 800m at Sydney Track Classic.Athletics Australia Report 
 
The Sir Graeme Douglas Meet in Auckland, New Zealand featured several Australians including the Riley Cocks, Caitlin Adams, Melissa Duncan in the 5000m, Nick Willis, Rorey Hunter and Luke Young in the 1500m, James Nipperess clocking a 8:33 in the Steeplechase ahead of Max Stevens, and  Catriona Bisset taking out the Women’s 800m along with Keeley Small.Results
Malcolm Hicks (ep. 47) clocks Olympic qualifier and personal best of 2:10:04 in Seville Marathon, setting the 4th fastest New Zealand fastest marathon. NZ Marathon Rankings
https://www.instagram.com/p/B86Jq-VHuGm/
 
Andrea Seccafien & Brett Robinson win Hobart Run The Bridge in some stacked fields.Results
The boys do a show review of the NB1080. 
Listener Question asks how many 1K repeats are enough for the event you’re training for and Moose gives Kyle Merber some love. https://twitter.com/TheRealMerb/status/1230694436646117381
Nick Earl goes with Brad about his range of personal bests that he’s set over the years and how having the wrong haircut at university football set him on the path for running, before moving to Australia and going from the highs in progression to the lows in iron deficiency. Nick talks about how his mentors shaped him and developing his coaching and racing philosophy.
Nick talks about how racing often is important to raising his athletics profile, his theory on the relationship between cadence and recovery and how his approach to racing and mindest translated into his breakthrough performance at Lake Biwa
Nick rounds out the chat on the comparisons between the Australian and UK cross country club scenes, his frustration at UK Athletics and the story of his lucky shorts.
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120: Jack Bruce

120: Jack Bruce
This episode of Inside Running Podcast is proudly brought to you by New Balance. The global athletic leader is excited to announce an update to their award-winning Fresh Foam platform, Fresh Foam X. Using the latest advancements in data to design, Fresh Foam X is New Balance's premium collection of their most elite Fresh Foam shoes. The Fresh Foam X collection debuts with the New Balance 1080v10 which is available now at select retailers and www.newbalance.com.au 
Brad has a flash of form at Mulligans and stops for fan photos.Julian questions the wardrobe choice of MTC’s national record holders. Brady puts in a marathon workout.
Joshua Chetegei breaks 5km World Record in Monaco running a solo 12:51https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/joshua-cheptegei-breaks-5km-world-record/https://youtu.be/zssDsEIOC1A 
 
Ollie Hoare placed second at the Wanamaker Mile in the Millrose Games, New York. Wisconsin State Journalhttps://www.instagram.com/p/B8W5_WYgdox/
 
Georgia Griffith sets a PB and Olympic Qualifier of 2:00.88 over Catriona Bisset at the Canberra Track Classic, while James Nipperess tactically takes out the Men’s Steeplechase.Canberra Track Classic Results
Tokyo Marathon cancels mass participation race two weeks out amid Coronavirus fearsJapan Running News
Listener Question asks where and how the boys would run their last run and Moose on the Loose gives his shower thoughts about race predictors on watches.
Jack Bruce joins Brady to talk about his progression from a junior racing at the back of the field to placing 3rd in Zatopek in consecutive years. He looks back at his recruitment to the University of Arkansas and growing up racing against Pat Tiernan, breaking down his experience within the NCAA training structure and then making the transition to Melbourne Track Club
Jack talks about his main training partners in the group, the appeal of the simple things done well and looking towards the future in racing on the roads and chasing Olympic standards.
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119: Tom Schwartz

119: Tom Schwartz 
This week’s episode is sponsored by ASICS. Technical innovation and absolute quality are at the core of ASICS’ vision. The latest addition to their comprehensive running shoe range is the all new EVORIDE™. The ASICS EVORIDE™ is built upon innovative GUIDESOLE™ technology designed to reduce energy loss and give that feeling of effortless coasting. EVORIDE™ is available now, and the boys give a review later in the podcast.
Julian lends his support to Brady at Melbourne Track Classic and then Skillzy at the Ballarat Gift. 
Brad makes his long awaited return to Gungahlin parkrun. 
Brady recaps his race and experience in the Melbourne Track Classic 5000m.
Following on from last week, Nike announced the upcoming release of the Alphafly complying to specifications set by World Athletics.
 
Melbourne Track Classic was headlined by Stewy McSweyn and Jessica Hull securing Tokyo Olympic spots by winning their respective 5000m. Jordy Williamsz of the Melbourne Track Club wins in the Men’s 800m, while Lauren Reid took out the Women’s 1500m ahead of Sarah Billings.Full Resultshttps://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/mcsweyn-and-hull-book-their-spots-into-tokyo/ 
 
Over in Western Australia, the Busselton Half Marathon taken out by Dean Menzies and Nera Jareb.Results
 
Listener Question training to heart rate to return to fitness, while Moose on the Loose contemplates the ramifications of the Canberra Marathon reducing their prize money on offer.
Tom Schwartz, head coach of Tinman Elite shares what he’s learned from his 30 years of coaching experience with Brad, starting with what got him into athletics and developing an interest in coaching by studying the science and physiology that goes into good athletic performances. Tom shares his philosophies as a coach with regards to the right amount of volume and using science to improve his track times despite fatigue and workload as an X-ray technician in the US Air Force. He defines in detail the term “critical velocity” with regards to an athlete’s aerobic capacity and the general outline of how the athletes under him train with an emphasis on time and effort as well as the common mistakes he sees.
In addition to his insights into developing better runners, Tom shares the origin of his famous mantra “Keep the ball rolling” and how he came about in starting Tinman Elite, what his vision in forming the culture around the club is, the media exposure it generates and how it can grow in its support structure, rounding out with looking towards the upcoming Olympic Trials and thoughts on the shoe debate.
You can find out more about Tom via The Run Fast Coach and his profile on Tinman Elite.
You can follow Tinman Elite on their website and follow their story on Instagram @tinmanelite, as well as Tinman Track Club. ⚒️️ 
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118: Brett Robinson

118: Brett Robinson | World Athletics Shoe Mandate
This week’s episode is sponsored by ASICS.
Technical innovation and absolute quality are at the core of ASICS’ vision. The latest addition to their comprehensive running shoe range is the all new EVORIDE™. The ASICS EVORIDE™ is built upon innovative GUIDESOLE™ technology designed to reduce energy loss and give that feeling of effortless coasting. EVORIDE™ will be available from February 7th. www.asics.com. 
 
Brad does his best to beat the heat while locked out of Mulligan’s.Julian loses his shirtless streak and debates the accomplishments of Ash Watson.Brady does his preparations ahead of the Melbourne Track Classic. 
 
Distance power couple Ben St Lawrence & Katie Conlon win the 10K Sydney Sun RunResults
 
Irish pair Sean Tobin & Michelle Finn take out the in sweltering conditions Box Hill Classic 3kAthletics Victoria Results
 
Rochelle Rodgers wins the womens Beppu-Oita Marathon in Japan with a time of 2:40:03.Japan Running News Report
 
Brett Robinson sets Half Marathon Australian National Record 59:57 in Marugame and joins in for a post-race debrief, touching on his training, the performance itself and what lies aheadhttps://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/brett-robinson-breaks-the-australian-half-marathon-record/
 
World Athletics sets parameters and limitations on footwear technology and specifications, with the Nike Alphafly banned, but the current and previous iterations of the Vaporfly ok. Prototype models need to be public for 4 months, which causes a tense situation for many athletes sponsored by other brands. The boys take on a deep dive on all the implicationshttps://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/nikes-vaporfly-avoids-ban-by-world-athletics/
 
The boys wrap up with a preview of the stacked field in the Women's 5000m at the Melbourne Track Classic with the potential for Olympic selection on the line.
Melbourne Track Classic Start Lists
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117: Paul Mackinnon

117: Paul Mackinnon
Julian wins the 5000m Vic Country Championships in 14:30. Brad sets the target for a 100-day running streak.Brady moves his training week around and gets a call up for the Melbourne Track Classic.
 
Jessica Hull breaks 1500m Australian Indoor Record in Boston and sets her sights on the National 5000m Championship. Jordan Gusman takes out the Dr Sanders Invitational Indoor 3000m in New York City, qualifying for World Indoors.
https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/hull-breaks-1500m-indoor-record-gusman-qualifies-for-world-indoors/
Lisa Weightman comes 5th in the Osaka International Women’s Marathon in 2:26:02, running her second-fastest marathon ever and moves into Tokyo Olympic Selection.Japan Running News Race Report
Paige Campbell takes out the NSW 5000m State Championships Title, while Sam Clifford of Tasmania continues his good form winning the Men’s A 5000 over Kieren Tall.
NSW Athletics Results
 
Listener Question asks about fitting in doubles into a busy schedule and how they fit in different training scenarios. Moose on the Loose deplores people who go out of their way littering on the trails. 
 
Paul Mackinnon, known as the Balanced Runner is a Melbourne-based running technique coach and chats with Julian about his hockey background, how he got more into running and how he gets athletes to feel their flow.
Paul explains what makes him different to the traditional clinical approach, how he teaches to focus on cues to improving self-awareness on running form and talks about who he works with and what he hopes clients learn in terms of movement and flow through some of the success stories he’s had, as well as how he gets people to become more engaged in their running.Find Paul at www.thebalancedrunner.com.au or @thebalancedrunner on Instagram.
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IRP with Soph, Jess and Eloise

This weekend's episode is sponsored by the O'Keefe Challange. Marathon, Half Marathon and 10km. More details at 
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On this weekend ep, Soph catches up with Jess Stenson and Eloise Wellings to talk all things post-pregnancy and running progression.
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