Inside Running Podcast

067: Dave McNeill

067: Dave McNeill
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Brad’s rebuilding his mileage and catches up for parkrun pacing. Julian confuses New Zealand with Tasmania and plans his big session ahead of Lake Biwa.Brady feels fresher, discusses game plan and goals for Lake Biwa.
Tarawera Ultra Trail sees Reece Edwards win the 102km ahead of Lake Biwa while Steph Auston place 2nd.NZ Herald Report
Results
Box Hill Classic 3000m sees 5 men break 8 minutes, lead by Harry Summers https://www.runnerstribe.com/len-johnson-articles/harrys-hot-summer-a-column-by-len-johnson/ Ben Buckingham column https://www.runnerstribe.com/features/2016-season-goals-from-ben-buckingham-a-retrospective/
Nic Harman and Rochelle Rodgers both set course records in the 10km and half marathon respectively at the Busselton Running Festival
Results
Aussies make waves at the Millrose Games Indoor Athletics meet, Morgan MacDonald edged by rival Grant Fisher in the Dr Sander 3000m and Ollie Hoare placing 6th at Wanamaker Mile.
http://results.nyrrmillrosegames.org/
 
RAK Half saw the top 11 break 60 minute mark, with Swiss athlete Julien Wanders beating Mo Farah’s European Record.https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/julien-wanders-sets-a-new-european-record-on-the-half-marathon/  
Listener Phil asks about building mental resilience to power through the end of marathons while Moose on the Loose takes on “The Mess” perpetually disrupting the group’s training sessions.
National track, cross country champion and Olympic representative Dave McNeill joins Brad about his impressive resume from the 400m to 10,000m and beginnings into athletics via basketball. Dave talks about his development under athletics coach Tom Kelly, before his recruitment to North Arizona University and exposure to different training styles. Dave talks about his highlights in the NCAA competing with and against the likes of Lopez Lomong and Galen Rupp, and then the challenges involved with his post collegiate running from finding his identity and life balance outside of running. Brad asks Dave about his columns of wisdom for Runners Tribe that draw on his personal experiences, the people who influences his mental state before talking about his venture into coaching for boundary umpires and other extracurricular activities as well as the relationship between his nutrition, energy intake and injury incidence.

066: Krishna Stanton

066: Krishna Stanton
Brad’s cooking in the heat but continuing his good form.Brady’s grinding through 40km long runs and longer car rides. Julian deals with GPS issues on his temp session and burning cars.
Australian Cross Country teams announcedhttps://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/tiernan-duncan-to-lead-aussie-team-at-2019-world-cross-country-championships/
Jack Rayner places 3rd in the Muragame Half Marathon, while surprise packet Joel Tobin-White places 11th. Sinead Diver & MTC teammate Charlotte Purdue place 3rd & 4th respectively setting new PBs.
Athletics Weekly Report
IAAF Results
Jordan Gusman & Marni Ponton each take out NSW 5000m State Championships
NSW Athletics Report
Results
Tom Do Canto & Abigail Nordberg takes out the Sun Run 10kmResults
Listener Question Steve asks about how long warming up is enough and Moose On The Loose hangs it on your groups’ Last Rep Hero putting on all the bravado where it matters least.
Krishna Stanton chats with Julian, about her diverse running range and long-spanning career. She talks about starting from swimming to getting into running and the transition into the AIS at Canberra and training under Pat Clohessy that lead to competing in a deep field at the World Indoor Championship.
Krishna recounts her persistence through injuries and illnesses through her career, all the while qualifying through the selection process to the 1992 Barcelona Olympic 3000m.Krishna goes through the highlights and challenges of talks about how she made the jump from the middle distance to the marathon, making her debut in Sydney 2001 and meeting Kerryn McCann and Jackie Fairweather that ultimately lead to them sweeping the podium in the Manchester Commonwealth Games Marathon, with Krishna taking the silver while recalling fond memories of her two former teammates before closing with what her running means to her today, running the Gold Coast and Boston marathons in recent years.
1992 Barcelona Olympic Women’s 3000m Finalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAJEVkKpmg
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065: Malcolm Norwood (Part 2)

65 Malcolm Norwood part 2
Julian runs with former 2:12 marathoner Shane Nankervis, and 1km reps with Brady before getting into an over-distance long run.
Brad’s works through his soreness through on the body and maintains fitness.
Brady gets in a big long run workout, getting in the mileage.
MTC sweep the Australian Cross Country selection trials at Stromlo, Canberra with Brett Robinson and Jack Rayner securing their place for the Australian teams, while Melissa Duncan secures her spot behind UK marathoner Charlotte Purdue. Athletics Australia Results
https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/robinson-and-duncan-win-aussie-xc-titles-at-stromlo/
Dubai Marathon boasts a stacked field predominant, while 2nd placed Herpassa Negasa has some interesting wardrobe choices.IAAF Report
Luke Mathews wins the 1500m at the Newcastle Hunter Track Classic in style, while Morgan Mitchell and Joseph Deng take out the 600m.
NSW Athletics Results
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtEoPoygtNW/?hl=en
Rio Olympic Marathon winner Jemima Sumgong hit with 8-year doping ban https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/olympic-marathon-champion-jemima-sumgong-doping-ban-doubled-kenya-?CMP=share_btn_tw
Listener question Brendan asks about breakfasts fuelling long run, Dominic asks about dealing with sensitive stomachs. Moose is on the Loose against your running group’s competitive half-stepper.
Brady’s chat with Malcolm Norwood resumes from last week starting from his suspension from the AIS leading to a 3rd place in the State 10k and then taking a break from the sport, then coming back to racing in Europe under the mentorship of Ron Clarke and dealing with emotions.
Mal then talks about coming home and running the 3-day Otway Classic, recounting the process for picking the team, employing tactics and strategy and duelling Sean Quilty.
With his career transitioning from track to road, Mal talks about running the London Marathon to supplement his Twin Cities performance to qualify for the Barcelona Olympics and the complicated selection process involved as well as an incident that happened just before the London Marathon before going into the lasting impact of the injury through the Tokyo Marathon, World Championships in Germany to his final marathon at Gold Coast and how his retirement came about.
Malcolm closes with his post-professional career, stepping out and in with the world of running sharing some philosophies on training, the state of running and anecdotes about drug testing.
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064: Malcolm Norwood (part 1)

64 Malcolm Norwood part 1
Brad bounces back on Strava, and works his fitness back up despite the humid weather. Brady hits the hilly circuits and a bucks party in Brisbane. Julian shares his love for Riley Wolff’s photography and has Mona pace his marathon workout.
Jack Rayner, Sinead Diver, Lisa Weightman and Brett Robinson feature in the 2019 London Marathon Elite Fields.https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs4B16MhDEA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Men’s Elite Field
Women’s Elite Field
Pat Tiernan runs a PB of 61:22 in the Houston Half Marathon. Ultramarathoner & Western States record holder Jim Walmsley runs 64:00 to rattle heads for an Olympic Trials Qualifier. Emily Sisson runs 67:30, narrowly missing Molly Huddle’s National half marathon record
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs3s0nJnF0X/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
The field for the Australia World Cross Country Trial is announced and the boys make their predictions.
Athletics Australia preview
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6vwjVnz6z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Ultrarunner and Two Bays 56km winner Steph Auston asks about alternatives to the conventional 7 day training cycle, before Moose explores the statistical definition of a “hilly” marathon.
Brady chats with elite runner from 1500m to the marathon, Malcolm Norwood about the scale of athletics, running the Great North Run and 2:12 at Twins City Marathon. Mal talks about the training for the marathon through conditioning on the hills of Ferntree Gully and his strict instructions on how to race it.
Malc talks about representing Australia at World Cross in Auckland, and finding the rhythm at Bundoora.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97qvDi1S0xk -
Malcolm takes it back to the beginnings at schoolyard rivalries in Albury, starting at sprints and winning the 800m, and how his love of running helped channel his hyperactivity. The first half of this interview concludes with how he joined Nike in the early 80s through Raylene Boyle and
heading to AIS under pressure, not knowing who Pat Clohessy was and setting the record for the longest suspension at the AIS.

063: Mike Power

63 Mike Power
Julian eases his way through a niggle. Experiments with race nutrition ahead of Lake Biwa. Brad’s in the gym, sets the course record on his recovery loop and checking his motivation. Brady rolls 400m reps with Julian, nails the Sunday long run. Hobart Marathon is taken out by Dion Finocchiaro and Meriem Daoui, while Nick Earl and Samantha Phillips won the half marathon.Results Two Bays Trail Run between Dromana and Cape Schank George Hedley & Simone Brick won the 28k while Ash Watson & Steph Austen dominate the 56k.Results  Boston Marathon winners Desi Linden and Yuki Kawauchi headline 2019 Elite Field https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/boston-marathon-2019-elite-fields Julian has some rebuttal from the discussion for his selection for the 2018 Run of the Year before Listener Liam asks about how to go about practising race-day fueling in the marathon.  Rob De Castella winning the 1982 Commonwealth Games Brisbane Comm Games Marathon
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-14/robert-de-castella-wins-brisbane-commonwealth/9604106 Olympic 5000m runner Mike Power chats with Brad, going through his impressive PBs from the 800m to the 10k that features 3:58 for the mile at the Prefontaine meet and the U/16 1000m World Junior record. Mike takes it back to the beginning doing laps in the school parking lot and then Little Athletics at Dandenong. He shares how he was recruited to Arkansas University, how the NCAA system bridges the gap between training junior and senior athletes and what his experiences were in the college team setting.
Mike then goes talks about the qualification process to get into the 2000 Sydney Olympics running the 5000m, what the experience was like and the support received from Athletics Australia.
Opening up about the difficulties he had in finding a coach afterwards, Mike then talks about what ultimately made him retire from the sport professionally, how he adjusted to life afterwards and recounts his traumatic scare with cancer and then closes with his observations on the NCAA college system and running culture in the US.

060: Sophie Ryan

Ep 60. Sophie Ryan joins Brady for the interview and discusses her latest 2:42 marathon at Valencia, women's health, the Australian female distance running scence, training in Boulder under Steve Jones and much more. 
 
The boys recap their weeks, report on Steigen Spectacular, Albie Thomas Mile, VMC and Ellie Pashley's 69:20 in Japan. 
 
The listener question comes in from AFL superstar, Kane Cornes about threshold and tempo pace and MOTL about lack of athletics coverage. 
 
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059: Louie Rowan

59: Louis Rowan
This week’s episode is sponsored by Australian Athlete Edition 2, presented by Runner’s Tribe and Athletics Australia  https://australianathlete.org/
Julian prepares and hosts the Gold Rush Trail Run.Brad continues to postpone Strava but gets back into pre-injury mileage.Brady’s now married and getting back into the training and hosting routine.
 
Stewy McSweyn dominates Zatopek:10 to claim back-to-back victories ahead of Jack Rayner and Jack Bruce.
Hitomi Niiya is also a clear winner while Sinead Diver places second to take out the National 10,000m Championship. Rose Davies and Luke Graves win the Junior 3000m while Whitney Sharpe and Matt Ramsden take out the 1500m.
Official Results
https://www.runnerstribe.com/len-johnson-articles/expectations-not-met-but-still-a-good-zatopek-by-len-johnson/
Listener question from Benny asks about how differentiating training paces from easy paces aids with adaptations and then Moose on the Loose draws the line on Inside Running’s responsibilities as a podcast, before closing out with a preview of this Saturday’s Steigen Spectacular.
Owner and founder of Steigen, and 2006 Commonwealth Games 5000m finalist Louis Rowan chats with Julian, about how he got into middle distance running with the Geelong Veterans, as well as finding the right coach with matching training philosophies.  
Louis talks about the road to qualifying for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, primarily as a 1500m runner and ultimately through the 5000m following a breakout 2005. He talks about the shocking scenes in the Kenyan rooms before going through his performance while blighted by a back injury that would ultimately put an end to his career.
Louis then talks about what motivated him to start Steigen, where the name comes from and some of the lessons in starting and expanding the business worldwide. He explains what Steigen stands for in supporting athletics and athletes before closing with how the Steigen Spectacular came to be, how it’s all about the athletes and making it accessible for a wider audience.
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058: Brett Robinson

058: Brett Robinson with special guest host, Sinead Diver.
Sinead Diver guest hosts after her Melbourne Marathon win and trains for Zatopek with MTC.
Julian comes down with a flu and struggles to keep up with Collis Birmingham. Brad takes the reigns over from Brady, keeps a streak, also comes under the weather.
European Cross Country in Tilburg features Jakob & Filip Ingebretsen of Norway winning their respective age categories
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrLNhYqARGc/
Results Jimmy Gressier stubs his knees on celebration https://www.instagram.com/p/BrM512xgrZS/
Abu Dhabi Marathon sees fast times shadowed by contentious distance measurement
IAAF Race Report
Let’s Run Discussion  
Video disputing course length https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mjYuaDAhzM&feature=youtu.be
 
IAAF Qualifying Standards for Doha released
https://www.runnerstribe.com/features/getting-aussies-to-doha-a-look-at-the-2019-world-champs-qualifying-standards/
 
10 years since the passing Kerryn McCann commemorated in the Rundown
Watch here
 
The team give a preview of Zatopek:10 2018, featuring the 10000m, 1500m and Junior 3000m events. Sinead gives insights to her preparations.
Current Entry List http://athsvic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/zatopek-entry-lists-2.pdf
Listener Joe asks how to maintain motivation when you don’t see improvement and Moose on the Loose against Instagrammers lying about their training sessions.
This week’s guest is Brett Robinson chatting with Brad, starting with a debrief on his recent Fukuoka Marathon. They go through his splits, what happened that caused him to withdraw, what he learned from the experience and how he’ll will approach his next attempt.Brett then talks about getting into athletics, his influences in the sport and when he decided to turn pro. He walks us through some of the decisions in progressing the ranks, dealing with injuries and intense cross-training, the self belief needed on the start line and gives some insight and some of the training and banter that goes on within the MTC as well as on social media.  
 
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057: Morgan McDonald

57: Morgan McDonald
 
This episode is sponsored by the Australian Athlete Bookazine Edition 2, now available via Runners Tribe.
 
Brad makes progress on Mulligans running pain free and pacing 20 minutes at parkrun.
Julian puts in a big week in training, along with a Running Company conference and 1k reps on the Tan.
Brady comes off his bucks weekend, getting chased by dogs and ticking along to the wedding.
 
Fukuoka Marathon won by Yuma Hattori, the first Japanese winner in 14 years, while Brett Robinson DNFs after 32km. Brett gives a statement, and will be on the podcast next week for a full debrief.
Results  
IAAF Fukuoka Race Report
 
Previous guest Jess Pascoe sets a new Australian Indoor 5000m Record of 15:34 over in Boston. https://twitter.com/AthsAust/status/1069135370497880065
 
Tara Palm comes out on top at the SA State 5000m Championships, edging Caitlin Adams after their previous skirmish at the Victorian 5000m Champs.Results  
 
California International Marathon a course that is both comparable to Boston and favourable for Olympic Trial Qualifiers has Julian’s Chico teammate Anthony Costales run 2:13 and past guest Evan Schwarz run 2:21.
Results
https://www.athlinks.com/event/3241/results/Event/695349/Results
 
Listener question from Alan asks about whether the boys have gotten into the Maffetone method for heart rate-based training and Moose is on the Loose over baffling ads interrupting the Fukuoka Marathon livestream.
Morgan McDonald is this week's guest, talking to Julian off the back of the NCAA Cross Country Championship win for University of Wisconsin. He recaps the race in the snow and what the tactics leading into the race were before going back into his origins in running meeting with Sean Williams’ SWEAT squad and his family’s high standards of career success, his goal setting and the process that lead to his recruitment to University of Wisconsin. Morgan goes through his training structures as well as his Commonwealth Games campaign including the trial and how he dealt with the physical and mental challenges in the lead up the 5000m event. 
 
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056: Tara Palm

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Brad pulls the pin on sessions and takes a break mentally on the road to recovery. Julian keeping up with Run Club and rebuilding his fitness and looking towards Steigen Spectacular. Brady gets in what he can before surviving a beer mile and his bucks party.
 
Listener question from John asks the boys for their future plans for the year ahead. Next week is the Fukuoka Marathon and Brad caught up with Brett Robinson ahead of his marathon debut. They have a brief chat about his preparation on depleted runs at Falls Creek, setting ambitious goals and support from Sinead Diver - tune in next week for a detailed recap of Brett’s race and more on his running history.
 
Listener Shane asks about whether getting VaporFly 4%’s is worth the investment for mid-pack runners and Moose is on the Loose over internet sales eating into the business local shoe retailers.  
Tara Palm is this week’s guest on Inside Running coming off a tight duel against Caitlin Adams at Victorian 5000m Championships ahead of her preparations for Zatopek:10. She chats with Brady about the depth in South Australia and how her start in running involved trying everything from steeplechase to cross country. Tara talks about making the transition to higher volume training loads and making her debut Australian teams with the Ekiden Relays and then the back injury in the lead up to the 2009 World Cross Country Championship in Jordan. From there Tara overcomes a series of injuries, surgeries and the patience needed through recovery to set a comeback for the 2013 World Cross Country Championship, only to succumb to another set of injuries. She talks candidly about dealing with injuries as well as her life balance, support network and inspiration looking ahead.  
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