Better with Running

Matt and Zac catch up to see how they’ve been tracking through the week including a snippet of audio post session with the roles reversed, past guest and training partner of Zac being interviewed on the spot during a warm down after completing a tempo after a small niggle.

Zac interviews new Run2PB Coach, Chris Armstrong. they cover:

> His running journey and what inspired him to get running again.

> Involvement in the running community including the Shepparton Runners Club.

> Coaching Philosophy and recurring themes he sees from recreation runners that he has coached over the years.

> The Australian running landscape and where it needs to evolve to.

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https://twitter.com/CJArmstrong15

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Matt and Zac have an intruder in the studio, as Brady pops in to try and steal some tips on podcasting!

They discuss the weekends time trials that went down with a number of Run2PB athletes over various distances. With the coaches drawing on some learnings and aspects of time trials. Zac recounts his adventure out to pace his Athlete Will and includes a quick post time trial interview.

Matt and Brady tackle a  listener Question:" Do you have a specific warm up routine you follow before a race?"

During the month of June all 3 of the founders of Run2PB (Matt, Brady & Zac) have been racking up KMs to donate $1 per KM to reach a 437, to represent the number of aboriginal deaths in custody since 1991,  they are supporting the ANTAR @antar_national (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) 

Brady references some podcasts, books and resources he has been listening to and reading, as well as talking about the issue with his good mate Benny Walker.

In this week's interview, Zac and Josh continue their deep dive into his running career, and talk about his debut world championships marathon, the injury that almost stopped him from running forever, his brief move to cycling, making it big time in the beer mile including being flown over to the world champs, and now his transition to coaching and plans for this running in 2020.

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https://antar.org.au/donate-antar

Books:

Why weren’t we told - Historian Henry Reynolds

Podcast

Adam Goodes Documentary: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-dream

Run2PB Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJxkh-FgU2Wsork-18PfSUA

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Matt and Zac talk about mental tactics and strategies they use in training and racing to help them get through tough situations, the conversation was inspired after reading Sammy Mclean's article.

You can read the blog here: 

https://www.run2pb.co/post/how-to-become-a-mentally-stronger-runner

In Part 1 of our interview with Josh Harris, Zacca chats to Josh about:

> His P.Bs across all distances from 800m > Marathon

> We find out what is his most satisfying and you’ll be surprised!

> He rates his favourite races around the world.

> They discuss the growth of the tasmanian running culture

> The evolution of Josh Harris the Marathon Runner, they discuss in detail his famous marathon training sessions and build ups through 2014-2016.

> Running the P.B in Lake Biwa and qualifying for the World Championships.

PART 2: Coming Soon! 

Which will feature what happened at the World Championships, recovering from a major injury, heading to the world beer mile championships and so much more.

Stay Tuned to our socials @run2pb for release date.

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Zac interviews Co founder of Run2PB Brady Threlfall, in Part 2 they discuss

- Brady's 5k/10km P.Bs, including his sub 30min Zatopek race.

- He rates his marathons races and dealing with not being able to race in 2020.

- His role as a mentor with younger athletes.

- How do we build the athletics and interest in the sport of running.

- What he really thinks about the state of the sport and how can we collectively grow it.

- Social Media and Athletes.

- His coaching with Run2PB and what excites him about being a coach.

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Matt and Zac talk about the possibility of training together for a marathon, as they both hold out hope that races will kick off again.

Zac chats to Sammy the "Shoe Dog" Mclean about the role footwear can play in niggles and return to running from injuries. He also debunks some myths around running shoes and answers a listener question around selecting shoes that are within our budget.

Zac interviews Co founder of Run2PB Brady Threlfall, in Part 1 they discuss Brady's early days of podcasting, and how he balances life with his various commitments and roles in the running community.

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Matt and Zac chat about the importance of training partners, and the role they have played in both their running careers.

Matt in particular reflects on his time spent as a training partner of 3 x Olympian, Comm Games Silver Medalist, Sarah Jamieson, he recalls a few stories from being on tour in Europe helping Sarah prepare for races and the insights and learnings he got from being around a professional athlete.

Run2PB Coach Andy Buchanan catches up with his Bendigo, based athlete, Luke "Milko" Millard, and they talk about his training and results, they also talk about how they regularly train together and some of amazing performances in 2019, that included a streak of P.Bs.

In our feature interview, Zac catches up with his training partner and Melbourne University Athletics clubmate, Frankie Conway and they reflect on his running journey and transitioning over from the UK to the Australian running climate. This was recorded early days of COVID-19 when restrictions were in place in Australia.

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A jam packed episode of interviews with Run2PB Athletes and Coaches.

Ultra and Trail Running Coach Steph Auston catches up with Llewellyn McMaster and they talk about his journey and his innovative virtual ultra relay that involves a 2am start time!

Run2PB Coach Brady returns for a post race interview with Run2PB Athlete Aiden and recap his marathon effort.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtLR7bHrD3/

You can find the details here on Aiden's cause https://www.gofundme.com/f/legacy-for-four-police-officers-who-died-on-duty

Matt has an in depth interview with coach and masters athlete Sammy Mclean, they talk about his decorated career in triathlon, running and coaching.

Also details about our LIVE event on Thursday June 4th here: https://www.run2pb.co/events

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Matt and Zac discuss how the Run2PB Hot Lap Hustle went, going through some results and also chat about how each other performed.

Sammy ‘The Shoe Dog’ McLean pops in again, answering some pressing questions about which shoe to wear during different sessions and also how terrain effects ideal shoe choice.

Matt catches up with one of his Run2PB athletes, director and PT at Activate Health and Fitness, Katie Dall. They discuss how she changed her focus from triathlons to running, how she managed to hit her running target goals for 2019 and the start of 2020, including smashing a 2 year goal to go sub 20 over 5km and what innovative steps her business has done to ensure motivation is kept high and people are still keeping their fitness and health up during such a trying time.

You can find Activate Health and Fitness here:

https://activatehealthfitness.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/activate_health_fitness/

You can follow Katie’s running journey here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ktplantpoweredpt/

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Matt and Zac reminisce over starting Run2PB and we reveal who actually came up with the name, they also fire some shots at another popular running podcast! Zac talks about runners being strict about going to round numbers and even kms and ask's Matt about his preference.

We meet Run2PB Athlete Aiden, who is  raising money for the families of the four police officers killed on duty in Victoria on the 22nd of April 2020. 

You can support Aiden at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legacy-for-four-police-officers-who-died-on-duty

Zacca Newman catches up with Becky Wade based in Boulder, Colarado, Becky is a 2:30 marathon runner, author, freelance writer, and traveler.

Becky is Part of two sets of twins born 20 months apart, Growing up in Dallas, Texas, before making her way to Houstons, Rice University on a track scholarship. She flourished year on year to graduate as a 4-time All-American and an Olympic Trials qualifier in the 10K and 3K steeplechase.

They talk about Becky's running journey and her now world famous 12-month, 22-country deep dive into some of the world’s most fascinating running traditions that was morphed into my book RUN THE WORLD. and published in 2016.

Becky's year long experiences, knowledge and training propelled her running career,  returning to run a 2hr:30, she went onto representing the USA at the World Half Marathon Championships.

Beckys  P.BS include:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beckyswade/?hl=en