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February 17 Chase That Feeling
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Runners talk about treadmill misery and loathing the indoor training season, but is it possible that the reason it’s so rough is because we think it is? A recent conversation with another runner set us to thinking, and we’ve got some stark realities to share that will also, hopefully, change your experience with treadmills.
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58 min
February 16 Chase That Feeling
Runners talk about treadmill misery and loathing the indoor training season, but is it possible that the reason it’s so rough is because we think it is? A recent conversation with another runner set us to thinking, and we’ve got some stark realities to share that will also, hopefully, change your experience with treadmills.
Learn more about our coaching services at atozrunning.com
58 min
February 06 When to Ditch the Watch
Once upon a time, you went for a run with some friends and that one friend had one of those fancy new watches–they called them GPS watches. Remember that? Remember how silly it was when that friend kept updating everyone on the pace you all were running? Remember how that friend would keep jogging circles at the end of the run to make sure the watch hit a round number?
Is it possible we’ve gone too far? That’s the question we are going to answer today when we discuss when to ditch that watch.
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1 hr 16 min
January 21 A Wicked Environment
Running is a wicked environment… at least as David Epstein defines the term in his 2019 work Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at WHY running is a wicked environment and what we might want to do about that.
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1 hr 3 min
January 09 The Unbreakable Rule
If I see one more time a headline about how everyone sets new year’s goals and quits by February, I’m going to quit the internet! And yet, I was chatting with another runner recently, a wise and accomplished man, and he casually mentioned a habit of his that rocked my thinking. Best part? This week, we’re bringing that idea to you–the unbreakable rule!
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1 hr 34 min
November 30, 2025 Go Hard or Chill Out?
We’re going to get practical and talk about the key difference between running hard and running easy and when we should be doing both. You’ve heard about the 80/20 rule, you know about Lydiard and Jack Daniels and double threshold… but do you know what all of that means for YOU and this week’s training? That’s where we are taking you in today’s discussion.
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1 hr 32 min
November 23, 2025 Turn Down the Temperature
When the pressure is high and expectations abound, performance can suffer. But it doesn’t have to. Even for runners who feel like race-day pressures are insurmountable, certain deliberate strategies and the right practice of those strategies can change everything!
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1 hr 34 min
November 12, 2025 Learning to Love the Pain
In a recent conversation with other runners, we fell to discussing the challenges of digging deep or pushing harder or hurting a little more. Given the close connection to our recent discussion about mindset and the mind-body connection, we dive deeper into pain, both what it is and what we can do as runners to overcome it better.
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1 hr 31 min
November 06, 2025 What did you expect?
Just how important are mindset and expectations on physiological experiences? Research has suggested that the connection is so significant that a person can literally create a physiological response to something that is not at all present. We kick off the 7th year of AtoZrunning by taking a closer look at the connection between the mind and body and what that means for runners.
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1 hr 45 min
September 23, 2025 Runners Need to Stop
In a world constantly battering us with the new–new ideas or technologies, new workouts or training approaches–it becomes that much more important for us to seriously consider what things we need to STOP. In this final episode of rules to realize your dreams, we share the last three rules: stop taking shortcuts, stop compromising, and stop negativity.
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1 hr 28 min

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Andi and Zach--runners, coaches, and founders of atozrunning.com --dive into distance running from every angle. Training tips and racing recommendations? Staying healthy or recovering from injury?…