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Dean and Ryan jump on with seemingly not too much running news to talk about from the elite calendar the past week but still have no difficult in filling over an hour with good chat.

Dean resumes a somewhat normal training week 2 weeks on from the marathon, Ryan attempts to and finally properly addresses one of the injury niggles that has been holding him back.

Ryan spends the weekend 'down south' so there is inevitably some shark chat.

1500m World Champion Josh Kerr gets the limelight for YouTube diaries and Ryan attempts to palm a Double Trouble off on himself for being so over reactive.

Thanks for tuning in as always.

The guys are reunited as a trio as Eoin dials in from his motherland, Ireland, to join Dean and Ryan, who have (just about?) recovered from Ballarat last week. We record an all time low, cumulative mileage total as Easy Double pod and agree that if we ever go lower than this, it's time to hang the mics up.

Very heavy on the results, news and discussions this week as the lads talked through London marathon from last week, caught up on the two recent Diamond League meetings in China and dove into some of the exciting stuff going on in Grand Slam Track at Miami. As well as the novelty ASICS Tokyo Speed Race where both male and female Australian 10k records went down.

YouTube diaries is back and took on a different perspective this week coming from more of a scientific and educational background.

We finish off with some listener questions including a bit of off topic discussion...

We really appreciate everyone's support and continuing to put us in your ears, please continue to reach out and connect as it's what keeps us motivated.

Episode 10 is live. An in-depth breakdown into Ballarat marathon from Dean and Ryan.
The taper week - how we primed for the race and reflections of whether we got it right or not

The carb load - what we ate and when, reasoning for making certain decisions

Pre race goals and strategy - what did we want to get out of the race, time based goals, how did we define success when we were stood on the start line and how did we plan to achieve it

How it played out - the good part. Dean provides incredible insight into thought processes as the race played out and takes us through the mentality of a 2:17 guy who's trying to podium

Post race reflections - how did the results stack up to our goals, key takeaways or learns

What next?

As usual thanks for the support. Please continue to connect @easydoublepod / [email protected]

Hope you enjoyed the build to Ballarat and we will reload and go again for the next goal.

Episode 10 was a massive deep dive by Dean and Ryan as they unpacked their weeks leading up to the marathon.

The lads unpack their final training week and reflect on what may have contributed (positively or negatively) to their race, they go into how the carb load was structured in real terms - what they were eating and when, how they managed this around the real life issues.

Dean provides an amazing insight into the mind of a 2:17 marathoner at all points throughout the race including his mentality and how he is strategically trying to place as high up in the finishing order as possible, how he is measuring and distributing his effort throughout, essentially a full analysis and breakdown of what it takes to podium at a big marathon like Ballarat when times go out of the window and you are fighting for places.

Ryan breaks down what he feels was a disappointing result and reflects on some of the things that may have contributed towards that, provides insight into what he is thinking as his measures of success begin to fall away in the second half of the race and how he managed to cling on to still secure a PB despite his legs failing him due to potentially not adjusting goals based on the final few weeks of interrupted prep.

The lads touch on what might be next and answer some listener questions regarding the race. Plus the winners of the 'guess the finishing time' competitions are revealed.

All of the usual segments will return to episode 11 but we wanted to do the race justice and provide a complete and honest review of our experiences.

Episode 9 was a fun one. Thankfully the duo reunited as a trio as Eoin returned from his travels up North and down South.

It's race week for Dean and Ryan, Ballarat marathon which has been the main focus for the boys over the past couple of months since Marugame. So we switched things up a little to focus on their plans for the race and dive into how they will prepare from a taper/fuelling/carb load perspective.

Firstly we recapped Boston marathon which was won by the Kenyan duo of John Korir and Sharon Lokedi. The lads got excited by Conner Mantz courageous run for 4th and Pat Tiernan flying the Australian flag in a bold run. Rory Linkletter looked Clayton Young in the eye and said 'Lets Tango' as they came up to the finishing straight.

We previewed the insanely deep field that will be taking to the streets of London this weekend and discussed who our fancies might be from a truly world class elite field as well as looking at who might go well from a British perspective.

Eoin took charge to fire some insightful marathon related questions off to the lads and pick apart their race strategy, goals and mentality. Which, if you would like to have your own opinion on Dean's finishing time head over to our instagram @easydoublepod and submit your guess for a chance to win $100 worth of @bix_aus nutrition gels.

Listener questions brought us home as Ryans building security guy reminded us that we were definitely finishing up!

Enjoy! As always reach out and connect, let Dean and Ryan know how you think they might get on in Ballarat or share your race-day tips.

Episode 8 is liveeeeeee.

So much to get into as we unpack this weekends National Athletics Championships from on the ground in Perth:

• Abbey Caldwell and Pete Bol 800m
• Jess Hull and Cam Myers 1500m
• Jess hull and Seth O’Donnell 5000m
• Gout 19.84
• Thanks to Seth for sharing a bit of wisdom on how he got the job done and what was going through his head

• The Training Week was rounded off with our final marathon session at Bunbury Half where Dean made it 2 wins in as many weeks and Ryan got DQ’d for going the wrong way
• Cat gate drama of the missing cat, who let us know he was not missing during listener questions so bonus points if you can hear him

• Eoin dropped in from Brisbane airport to provide a travel update 

• Dean went back into the archives again for YouTube diaries with: Villanova’s victory in Penn relays 2015 thanks to Jordy Williams & Pat Tiernan taking out the D1 Men’s NCAA XC in 2016

• Ryan stepped into Double Trouble and took it to Ticketmaster

• Listener questions including cannabis gummies, data screens on your watch, Thomas Tedge flexing on his run with Jess Stenson and a whole host of “questions” poking fun at Ryan’s wrong turn and subsequent DNF

We’ve made it to the final 2 weeks of our marathon block where typically volume and intensity start to reduce. Join us next week where we’ll have Eoin back and we do the final episode pre race day @ Ballarat

Please provide feedback, questions and thoughts, otherwise looking forward to episode 9!

Episode 7!! Huge episode as Dean gives us a great break down as to what it looks like to run 30:03 off 135km training week at the WA state road running champs over 10k, both mentally and physically.

We are a man down this week as Eoin gets his annual leave approved for the EDP board although he does have a 10min cameo providing an update on his fitness and travels.

• Dean and Ryan offer their opinions on the inaugural Grand Slam Track meet held in Kingston 
• We preview Australian National Athletics Championships this coming weekend in Perth with some MASSIVE names in the field
• Ryan and Dean take us through their training weeks as Ryan hits a key 4x5k workout and Dean joins the Ballarat Elite Athlete briefing zoom with Mona during a steady run
• Dean breaks down his 10k WA state championship win in Perth on Sunday and gives us an insight into both the mental and physical preparation 

• Eoin drops in to provide a quick update on his recovery and provide an overview of 'The Travel Week' whilst offering his thoughts on listener Q's and upcoming nationals

• We head over to the UK for YouTube diaries as Ryan reviews the recently released @ London Marathon build. Secondly @ is a more relatable channel for the everyday runner documenting his experience as a “normal” guy chasing elite times around the British racing circuit

• Dean has another crack at Double Trouble and puts his weather man hat on and gives the listeners something to think about ahead of the upcoming seasonal weather changes

• Listener questions ask: favourite races you’ve ever done and top of the bucket list for ones that you haven’t

Thanks a million as always, if you're enjoying listening dont by shy to give us a message, share the pod amongst friends or stick it on your story, every little helps:)

Back on track with the usual Monday night recording, episode 6 is live!

Huge episode this week!! Deep dive into some of the big results at Australias “biggest one day track meet since 2001” 

• Quick injury updates for Eoin and more recently Ryan. 
• Dean as the last man standing takes us through another big training week as we breach 4 weeks out to Ballarat.

• Ky Robinson successful return to home soil as we looked forward to seeing him in action in person at Nationals in Perth. Gave Seth O'Donnell plenty of justifiable praise for the way he took the raise to the field
• Claudia Hollingsworth unleashed her typical brutal finishing kick on a deep women’s 1500m field
• Cam Myers with an incredibly strong frontrun performance asserting his dominance on the middle distance domestically
• Georgia Griffith with a gutsy close but no cigar run in the women’s 3000m
• Lachie Kennedy rewriting the script to remind Gout Gout that he won’t have it all his own way
• Botswana brought the energy as Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo and his entourage ripped a 400m 

• Graham Blanks and Habtom Samuel amongst a couple others ran the imperiously difficult 10k world athletics championships standard of 27 flat at SoundRunning 
• Sydney Marathon confirmed their Australian  only prize money with a massive $135k pot split evenly across genders which looks good for attracting a seriously deep field, alongside the recent confirmation of Kipchoge

• Eoin is back with YouTube diaries and talks about Adam Woods and his partners channel based out of Boston
• Ryan steps back into the heat with Double Trouble 
• Listener questions including: race day shoes, least favourite session, biggest thing that’s contributed to improvement and will the 2 hour barrier go at London Marathon

• Looking ahead at the next week we are excited to talk about Grand Slam Track on episode 7, Eoin will be dialling in from Cairns, Dean is letting it rip around the WAMC Bridges fun run on Sunday

As always stay in touch and let us know your opinions. Thanks for listening.

Episode 5 is live. After the hick up on Monday nights attempt at recording (see 'FAILED episode 5' we bounced back on Tuesday and got it done. Thanks for your patience, promise it’s still worth tuning in!

• We covered off notable results from the World Indoors Athletics Championships in China including Jakobs double gold, Jess Hull and Ky Robinson taking out bronze medals for Australia 

• Dean takes the lead on training week as he and Ryan put together another big week and close in on Ballarat with a 41k run in the hills. Eoin offers great support on the bike and provides an update on his injury and cross training 

• Eoin has the YouTube diaries honours and stays close to home with rising track star Tom Cross who’s just dropped a highly entertaining altitude vlog with arguably Australias star boy Cam Myers

• Double trouble takes fire at the minutes per milers 

• Ryan suffers severe technical difficulties and the lads seemingly lose patience with him, to fire through listener questions

Bit of a whirlwind episode but we’ve gotten there in the end. Plenty of learns from this week, it’s been smooth sailing up until now but we were bound to hit some stumbling blocks eventually. In the spirit of @ see you next week for episode 6 where we’ll be ‘back stronger’

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EDP.

For whatever reason, last night we just could not put it together. It took us about 3 attempts at doing an intro, Ryan and Dean kept dipping in and out and we could just about string a sentence together..

This is part of the fun right? Seen as we let everyone down with no actual episode today, we've put together the out-takes from our attempt at recording Episode 5.

Enjoy listening to this absolute amateur podcasting :)

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