November 24, 2023

In My Opinion E3 - Placing over 200th in 66min @ Ageo City Half Marathon, Ekiden Content, Learnings about Muscle Cramping, Great Strava Follows, USA OTQ Drama, How To Deal with Haters (intro) and more

1 hour 5 minutes

Welcome to the 3rd edition of In My Opinion where Matt Fox - Founder at Sweat Elite - disusses all things running and shares his (sometimes contraversial) opinions about things. In this weeks episode Matt talks about running the Ageo City Half Marathon and getting beaten by over 200 Japanese people but still running 66minutes, how the Ekiden content has been coming along, learnings about muscle cramping and some of the funnier reasons people believe he's been cramping in races, great Strava accounts to follow, the USA Marathon Olympic Trials and the recent drama around the start time.

The standard segments are in there too - the workouts of the week and the recommended products and services. Hope you enjoy and as always - send me some thoughts at [email protected] Workouts of the week #1: 2 sets of (10 x 1min). In set 1- the recovery is just 30seconds and the pace should be around 10km goal pace. In the second set - the recovery is 1 minute and you should run it at about 3-5k pace. Between sets take 3minutes recovery. #2: 5km @ Half Marathon pace, 2min rest, 10 x 1min on/off, 2min rest, 5 x 1km @ Half Marathon pace (500m float recovery), 2min rest, 10 x 1min on/off. #3: 5km Easy, 6km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 5km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 4km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 3km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 2km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 1km @ Marathon goal pace, 5km Easy. And join us at www.sweat-elite.coaching.com/ when you're ready to take your running to the next level.

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