Head Coach Bala, in this second weekend message talks about the following:

1. Conversational Pace Running - Definition, what to do and how to do and why?

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Excited to welcome all of you to our Curtain Raiser fire side chat for S11 along with 4 our coaches: Coach Sujaa, Coach Srivatsan, Coach Srikanth and Coach Bala.

We discuss few key guiding themes for the season

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Senior Runner Sonali Oltikar speaks with runners Rakesh Acharya, Siva Narayanan and Radhika Goli about their race day prep and experience.

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In this weekends episode, Coach Bala talks abt the logic behind limiting long run distance to ~80% of the race distance.

Concept introduced for concept of two advanced running metric :

1. Lactate Threshold

2. VO2 Max

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In this week's message Coach Bala shares his view on two key messages on Mental Strength and how to work with it.

1. Mental Benchmark: This is the artificial high water mark that our brain impose on our limits to physical ability. As we keep increasing this high water mark, we all can magically experience the appropriate increase in physical strength as well. Learn more about this!

2. Banked Run Strategy: Ability to plan a run and bank some time towards the end of the mile to walk and catch your breadth without losing the target split for that mile. This also helps to break the monotony and will help your mind get rejuvenated. There are other benefits too.

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Senior RHWB Runner Sonali Oltikar debuts as a podcaster with a fascinating conversation with runners Hima Pavuluri, Rakesh Menon and SriRanga Nagendra who have exhibited perfection in their approach to training season after season. Let us learn from them on how they plan, strategize and execute a perfect 5.0 training regimen.

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In the next episode of SX Podcast with runners, Coach Ani (Welcome to you new role podcaster!) conducts a fascinating chat with Senior RHWB runners Anirudha Nagnur, Jasira Vallappil, Indrajeet Pawar on what does the term 'Conversational Pace' means to them, how they go about executing it and what learnings they can offer to other runners.

A must listen podcast for all!

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Coach Bala in this episode talks about the following:

1. The critical job 'Rest' does to improve training effect. Why it is the most important portion of the training regimen

2. Long distance range is when we run for mor than 2 hours continuous. Lots of physiological changes happen post this. What really happens and how to prepare and train for those changes makes or breaks a run.

Let us learn that!

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Coach Bala enumerates the 3rd core pillar of RHWB - Having Fun.

How to think abt having fun during a long run, why having fun while running is essential to lo g term sustainability of this activity. listen on..

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Coach Bala in this week's message shares his view on how to think about training impact. The careful balance a runner need to strike in gaining the positive effects of consistent training and the negative effect of injury risks to the body.

FIT Framework for structured training is introduced.

F - Frequency of Runs

I - Intensity of Runs

T - Time Interval between runs Optimal interplay between these 3 pillars is when training magic happens

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