It's a milestone episode for me - number 300 - which represents 6 years of podcasting consistency. For this one, I ring in the milestone and the end of 2022 with 9 reflections on the year from my personal running journey, from my coaching, and from another year of lapping the sun as a human.

Fellow Rogue coach James Dodds joins me to process it all. I think there is advice in here for everyone on topics ranging from strength training to big goal dreaming to navigating the seasons of life and more. Happy New Year everyone!

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What do you ultimately want from this sport and how do you get there? Those are big questions that can be hard to answer because it is often hard to prioritize and focus on what matters the most. That's because goal setting can be hard, and planning your year of racing with your goals in mind can be even harder. In this episode, I give you 6 practical steps to work through in order to do just that in 2023. From this conversation, you should be able to walk away with a plan for your training peaks, "A" races, and the focal points of training for the next 12 months. Work through these 6 steps, and then get to work!

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Thank you to Victoria from Florida for this episode topic suggestion. Solo vs. group training... which is better for you?

Either can be great options depending on what is right for you. In this episode, I give you 5 considerations for each modality to make sure you get the most from it. With solo training, how do you push yourself with no one watching? With group training, how do you make sure you don't get sucked into going too fast for you? I answer those quesitons, plus talk about both the pros and cons of each. Listen in and decide what's best for you!

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Winter is coming, and it's just over a week away! For many of you, winter invites challenges to motivation and to the basic logistics of training safely. In this episode, I give you six tips to maintain your consistency until the warmer temperatures remain. Topics include:

- Choosing a winter training emphasis

- Getting the right gear

- Training on a treadmill

- Hydration

- Planning around the holidays and travel

- Getting a jumpstart on goal setting for 2023.

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We like to complicate recovery by focusing on the latest whizz-bang tools and modalities that might be all the rage. Recovery, however, is actually very simple, and in most cases, absolutely free. In this episode, I talk about your 3 most important recovery tools - movement, sleep, and fueling - and then give you 8 simple tasks you can do to get your mind right for recovery by engaging the para-sympathetic nervous system. You can only get as fit as you are willing to invest in recovery. Listen to this episode and get back to the basics.

Referenced article on carbs and recovery: https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/carbs-recovery-research-2022/

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2:23 vs 2:39? Which is a better result for a marathoner?

It would be easy to say the faster time, but Des Linden might disagree. She ran 2:39 in 2018 to win Boston. She also ran 2:23 in 2011 to place 2nd by just 2 seconds. Which is better now? Context matters. It's not necessarily about the time on the clock if you give your all. In this episode, I share 5 tactics for giving your all - for taking an amphorous concept and putting it into reality so that you can be proud of your races no matter what the clock says.

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As a coach, I know at least two things for certain:

1. Everyone faces pre-race nerves and doubts regardless of your background and experience.

2. The pre-race nerves never go away, but you will become better at dealing with them.

In this episode, I discuss 7 types of pre-race doubts with tactical steps to deal with each of them. You can't make them go away, but you can channel that energy productively. Listen in to find out how.

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Most of us measure ourselves in all of the wrong ways, and it leads to injury, overtraining, burnout, and under performance.

In this episode, I give you 7 ways to re-frame how you measure success in order to be a happy, healthy, sustainable runner who ultimately reaches their long term potential.

For example, stop asking yourself "how fast did I go?" and instead start asking yourself a different question. Listen in to learn more!

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In this episode, Nicole Winter (@nicolemruns) asks me questions from her followers about final race week preparations. We discuss everything from choosing a race pace to race week eating to the taper and strength training (or not), plus much, much more.

We also discuss an injury she is facing on her journey to qualify for Boston in February and how she is working through it. If you have ever faced injury, then you will definitely be able to relate to that part of the conversation. Thanks to Nicole and her followers for bringing great questions to this discussion.

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One of the biggest mistakes I see made in training is a lack of variation within a training cycle and certainly across training cycles. If you want to reach your goals, you need to make sure that you are modulating your training in a way that allows your entire aerobic system to build vs. just smaller parts of it.

In this episode, I ask you 8 questions to determine whether or not your training is polarized enough? It's time to take a look in the mirror!

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