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Zacca is joined by Run2PB Coach and Stawell Gift Mile Winner, Jack Davies who steps in to replace Matt as co host for this week, whilst matt takes a well earned break down in tassie after racing in the Easter Marathon Festival.

Zac and Jack relieve the glory days of a Stawell Victory and discuss how exciting it is to have some of Australia’s best distance runners lining up in this iconic event in Australian Sport, that does raise the profile of running through its mass media coverage.

Jack discusses his training in the past few months, and his recovery from injury and is excited abou the prospect of lining upt the season ahead running for the St Stephen Harriers in the Athletics Victoria XCR Season.

Zac promotes Echuca / Moama as a must visit place for both training and holidaying after staying a few days down there with Run2PB Co founder and Coach Brady Threlfall.

He talks through his session with Brady - 3 x 3km off 2.30min rest and also ticking off all the tourist attractions of Echuca/Moama.

Matt and Gemma provide an on the ground recap of the Hobart Easter Marathon Festival, Gemma talks about a busy season and returning to the roads and winning the 10km, and Matt has a bit of a strange experience in the back part of his half marathon. They also discuss catching up and watching first hand some exciting results and performances from run2pb athletes.

Myles Gough from Runcreature joins Zacca in his taper week, they discuss his past few weeks of training as he nears his goal race of the Canberra Marathon, including the plan for the rest of the week, how the body is feeling and mentally how he is preparing for the assault on a P.B and hopefully 2.20 for his marathon.

Myles and Zac also recap some existing results on the domestic circuit, including linden Halls amazing 1500m aus record at the Box Hill Classic and Jye Edwards exciting breakthrough run in the mens 1500. They both talk about the depth in Australia running at the moment and with excitement look towards how it could play out at the Tokyo olympic games.

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Zacca and Matt catch up on how their past couple of weeks have been. Matt goes through some of his specific sessions in the lead up to next weeks Hobart Half Marathon. Hitting a morning hills and tempo session to practice running hard, to replicate the early race start. Along with a long warm up into 5 x 1km alterations sessions and 3 x 2km reps into 6 x 400m session. Zacca goes through the sessions included in his biggest mileage week for years, including 3 x 3km session and 30min tempo.  

 Zacca heads out to watch the Collingwood Classic. Filling in about the many run2pb athletes having amazing performances along with coaches Sammy and Brady putting on stunning displays of strong running.  Matt chats about a couple of impressive PB’s coming out of the Great South Run from his athletes along with Bettina who crushed her 10km.   

Zacca interviews John Cox, cohost of the Single Malt Marathoners podcast and run2pb athlete. John discusses what got him into running, how the club scene is huge in Britain, how with the help of his coach Brady, has absolutely crushed the 3hr marathon, how his kept his motivation through COVID and how his podcast is going.

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Zacca and Matt give a run down of some big results that have come through in the last couple of weeks, in their around the grounds segment.

Run Culture coach, Run Therapy physiotherapist, host of the Run Culture podcast, 2.22 marathoner, training partner and great mate of Zacca and Matt, Dane Verwey jumps on for a chat about how he's tracking for the upcoming Athletics Australia Elite Marathon. Dane goes into detail about how his training has been going, what his plans are and how he'll go about then making the quick turnaround to hit the Gold Coast Marathon. Dane also discusses what he's learnt from over 100 episodes of his podcast, what he sees as common mistakes in the lead up to a marathon and chats about how he's listening to his body and adapting his program to ensure he gets to the start line fit and ready.

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In this weeks episode, Zacca and Matt catch up about their weeks. Matt talks about getting a cold, taking it easy, before hitting a half marathon specific session of 3 x 10min and rolls a group long run around Red Hill. Zacca progresses his training with a solid 4 x 2km session, 70min pickup run then jumps in on his Sunday run to pace one of his athletes, Will, over a 10km time trial.

Zacca and Matt also chat about the Richmond Harriers Tiger 5. Held on a cracking Thursday night, with plenty of run2pb athletes (and a couple of coaches) taking to the track and nailing some amazing races. Along with this, many other run2pb athletes had amazing performances across the week.

The upcoming Collingwood Classic is also discussed along with Zacca and Matt's thoughts following a test drive of some Oat running socks.

Run2PB coach and expert podiatrist Sophie Fitt jumps on to chat about her time trial around Albert Park that she organised for her athletes, where we had numerous run2pb athletes enjoy a fantastic morning running around the lake. Sophie also gives an update on her own running, latest results from Australian athletes and answers a listener question about plantar fasciitis. 

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Mega Episode! The Zacca and Matt talk about their recovery week post Sandy Point 10km. Zacca shows his recovered well by hitting a solid Threlfall Fartlek, while Matt takes on half of Josh Harris' hour of power (30min of 1min ON, 30sec float fartlek). 

Run2PB coach Andy Buchanan joins in to discuss his recent 13:42min 5km PB at the Box Hill burn. Andy goes into the details of some of his sessions leading up to the race and chats about his future plans (including a marathon scoop). He also chats about some of the amazing successes in his athlete group.

Founder of Run Creature, Myles Gough, jumps on the mic to chat about how his training is tracking leading into Canberra Marathon, as well as a huge result from Bendere Oboya, who features in his latest article. He also discusses the amazing night of athletics down at the Box Hill Burn.

Zacca also catches up for Part B of his interview with Run2PB coach and all around legend James Hansen. 

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In this weeks episode, Zacca and Matt recap their epic showdown at the Sandy Point - 10km, discussing how the race unfolded for both of them and then how they both plan to recover as they head into their marathon specific blocks as they build towards the Gold Coast Marathon.

They also recount the excitement of catching up with other Run2PB athletes at the event. In a big weekend of racing around the country, they also discuss some impressive performances from Brisbane based athletes Katie and Jenna who battled humid conditions over a 10km Road Race.

Whilst down in Tasmania, Run2PB Coach Josh Harris jumped on talked about some huge results down at the Run the Bridge 10km in Hobart, which featured 4 of his athletes, with multiple P.Bs and outstanding performances which included Grace Tame - 2021 Australian of the Year and Run2PB athlete who crushed her 10km and how they have keep training despite a magnitude of events and travel.

Zacca sits down with newly appointed Run2PB Coach James Hansen for an interview, they talk about how James got into the sport, how he fell in love with it and the discuss his P.Bs and some of the big races that have shaped his career.

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In this weeks episode, Zacca and Matt catch up about how their training has gone this week. Zacca goes into detail about his 4 x 5min and 3 x 10min sessions, in the lead up to his showdown with Matt at the Sandy Point 10km. Matt discusses hitting another hills session, building into 4 x 3min and 2 x 1min hills. Along with a 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 fartlek session, to close out another 140km week. They also chat about their entry into the Gold Coast marathon and the excitement around the build.

Run2PB coach and Head Coach of Shepparton Runner Club, Chris Armstrong jumps on to detail their 3km club handicap, which featured over 50 runners. Chatting also about the excitement of races starting to come back, how he's been stoked with the progress and enjoyment his athletes are getting with their running as well has his return to running after a terrible incident. Chris also discusses watching the Victorian Track and Field Championships, where one of the recipients of the Run2PB junior development support program, Kiara Flavel, had an amazing race, finishing second in her age group in the 1500m. Along with Run2PB coach Gemma Maini placing 4th in the open women's 1500m event. Matt also discusses his excitement with one of his athletes Sarah, taking out the Sri Chinmoy Half Marathon in a massive PB time of 1.28hrs.

Zacca also catches up with one of his athletes, Glen, who smashed his 5km PB over the weekend, running 20:25 on the track. Being paced by another Run2PB coach Chris O'Neill. They chat about Glen's journey and how running has helped through various challenges.

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In this weeks return episode, Zacca and Matt catch up about how their last month of training has been. Zacca nails a 4k/3k/2k session in the lead up to his showdown with Matt over 10km, this time at Sandy Point 10km. Matt discusses how he was put back over the Christmas period due to illness and took a few weeks to build back up. Zacca and Matt also have a chat about their hills session they did down at Devilbend.

Myles Gough, founder of RunCreature jumps back on to discuss his sub 15min PB at the NSW Championships, smashing it with a 14.46min. Myles also goes into some detail of how his training is progressing ahead of the Canberra Marathon, which he also documents in a blog at his runcreature website. Myles shares with us a scoop on his next featured athlete article too!

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Zacca and Matt catch up for a run and record their Launceston race debrief on the ground. They discuss how the race went for each of them, how Zacca charged past Matt at 3km and got him by 30 seconds. Zacca goes into his lead up training week and Matt chats about one of his taper sessions. They also talk about how their recovery has been and what’s in store for 2021. 

Myles Gough, founder of RunCreature jumps back on to discuss a training update, gives some more details of his feature article on Steph Auston, as well as chatting about an interview with Bradley Dryburgh who with cystic fibrosis raised money for research by running a marathon and the 100 Project, where Kieron Douglass who ran a ‘conservation ultra’, 100km running and planting 100 trees. Myles also gives a scoop on the next feature article, sounds like an absolute ripper! 

Run2PB athlete Stu McLay jumps on to discuss something that only one Australian has ever done and that’s win a gold medal at the World Cross Country. Stu takes us through Benita’s lead up, PB’s, rivals in the race and then dissects the race in remarkable detail. 

 This will be the final episode for the year, but have big plans for 2021! So keep on the lookout. We wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas and New Year and can’t wait to get into 2021!

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Benita Willis - World XC Video Highlights https://youtu.be/gJ1VxQF9cks

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https://runcreature.com/the-100-project-one-mans-epic-trail-run-for-conservation/

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  One week out before the Launceston 10km, Zacca and Matt dissect their latest sessions. Matt talks through how his specific 10km session, 5 x mile reps and then discusses how he changed his training to ensure recovery and adaptation from that. Zacca nails a strong progression run and 6 x 4min reps as he gets more specific in his training. 

Fresh off her win in an Australian record 50km time, Run2PB coach Steph Auston joins the show. Steph goes into detail about how the race panned out, what specific training she did in the lead up to the race, how her training in the heat of Queensland helped her to adapt to the race specific conditions and what’s next on the race calendar. Steph also gives some results of her athletes and discusses her upcoming Run2PB Trail Running Technique Clinic. With lots of races kicking off and some amazing performances coming through,

 Zacca and Matt go around the tracks covering off a plethora of highlights from the past couple of weeks.

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