Sweat Elite Podcast

3 men attempting to break 2:20 at the Berlin Marathon taking place in 9 days time discuss their training blocks, racing strategy, nutrition plan and much more.

Nick Bester from Best Athletics, Kristian Ulriksen from Breaking Marathon Limits Podcast and Matt Fox from Sweat Elite discuss all things Berlin Marathon and answer 8 questions covering nutrition, lessons learned, training, race day plans and more.

This podcast episode is bought to you by Best Athletics- the coaching partner of Sweat Elite. Prepare for your upcoming race with the coaches at Best Athletics: https://www.bestathletics.co.uk/

Ricky Lightfoot is a trail and fell runner from the Northern Britain. Over the years he has raced in and won some of the most prestigious trail and ultra races in the world whilst balancing life as a firefighter and a father. Ricky joins us on the Sweat Elite Podcast to discuss his life running the fells of England, as well as across the globe. We delve into his experiences in some of his stand-out races, as well as his recent participation in the Salomon Phantasm 24 which was a 24-hour four-person relay to celebrate the launch of Salomon’s new carbon plated road shoe, the Phantasm CF. We also speak a lot about the rich history and culture of fell running in the UK, as well as the famous Bob Graham Round. Ricky shares a lot of great insights into training and racing on the trails and it was a pleasure to have this conversation with him.

In this conversation Brad educates us on bone stress injuries (BSI), a common injury in the running population which can be debilitating and frustrating. Brad shares his clinical experience dealing with these injuries and we discuss causes, treatment and prevention BSI.

In this interview Renato answers questions from our Youtube Members. Topics include: Special Block - it's origins and adapating to different levels, fuelling for the Marathon, the 80/20 principle, hill sprints for Marathoners and much more.

This is the first half of the live Q&A over at our Youtube Members Area. To listen to the whole interview you can sign up here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFYpwqeNXx7M9xosFjdm5kQ/join

* We apologise for minor background noise during this live Q&A.

We want one thing - to grow the sport of Track and Field. Professional filmmaker Alex Andrei is currently creating a documentary: The State Of The Sport - Track and Field in America. In this interview Alex shares insights into his motivation to produce the documentary and his thoughts on the current state of the sport of Track and Field in America.

Watch the Super Trailer: https://youtu.be/tupKNXSSfCA 

After returning from a big stint in Kapchorwa, Jake Smith has returned to the podcast to tell us all about his time training in the Ugandan Highlands. This came about after Jake’s signing with NN Running Team, who have a squad of athletes training there which includes WR holder over 5,000m and 10,000m - Joshua Cheptegei. This was Jake’s first block of training at altitude, and he said that this combined with the relentless hills of the Kapchorwa saw him make massive progress during his five weeks over there. In this episode we discuss the training, diet, terrain, group dynamics of the Ugandan athletes, as well as the plentiful lessons that Jake took away from his experience training with the world’s best. 

For this episode of the Sweat Elite Podcast we are joined by Scottish middle-distance talent Josh Kerr. The Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist in the 1500m joins us to discuss his life on and off the track, as well as the power of mindset for achieving big goals. Josh shares a lot about his training, his favourite sessions, his experiences in Tokyo, as well as the importance of goal setting, prioritising rest and having things outside of running to focus on. Josh’s self-belief is really impressive and definitely something to learn from. If you’ve enjoyed this conversation with Josh you can hear more from him on the Sit & Kick which he hosts alongside his Brooks Beasts teammate Dave Ribich. We thank him for his time and sharing so much of his journey with us. Enjoy!

Philipp Pflieger is a 62:50 Half Marathoner and 2:12:15 Marathoner from Regensburg, Germany who trains under Renato Canova. Philipp is one of only a few professional distance runners who creates consistent high quality content via his podcast and youtube channel and in this conversation we speak about how Philipp manages creating content and training at such a high level. We also discuss training with Renato Canova, his goals in 2022 and training in Kenya.