Sweat Elite Podcast

Lauren Goss has recently turned her focus to the 5,000m and 10,000m after a highly successful career in the Triathlon and Half Ironman events. Lauren's track goals include running World Championships qualfying standards for the 5,000m and 10,000m this year and in this conversation we discuss training, goals, Ric Rojas as a coach and much more.

She then went on to run 2:26 in Valencia marathon in December, attracting attention from Nike Trail and NN Running who will be supporting her going forwards. This performance, which places her third all-time for a Dutch woman, is especially astounding given she started running a mere three years ago, really picking it up after lockdowns started in Switzerland where she is completing a PhD in GeoPhysics. Nienke’s background in field hockey has proven to be a solid foundation for versatile performances.

We are grateful for Nienke giving us the time to share her journey, her enthusiasm and passion for the sport are so clear in this conversation and we are excited to watch her trajectory over the coming years.

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Ric Rojas is a professional sprint and distance running coach based in Boulder, Colorado. Ric is the coach of Nell Rojas (first American at the Boston Marathon 2021) as well as other elite sprinters and distance runners in the USA.

In this podcast episode Ric dives into his 10 Peak Performance Principles.

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After a recent PB of 60:55 at Houston Half Marathon, as well as an exciting move to Puma’s new elite team, Australian Olympian Pat Tiernan sat down with us to discuss his journey in athletics over the past two decades.

Pat – who is the Australian record holder for the 10,000m (27:22) – hails from Toowoomba, Queensland, however, he has now been based in the US for the best part of a decade. He initially moved to run for Villanova through college, before transitioning to Oregon Track Club Elite, and now to run for Puma under Alistair and Amy Cragg with their new squad based in Raleigh, North Carolina. 

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Ben Flanagan has recently joined ON Running and the Very Nice Track Club and in this interview he shares insights into making these two moves.

Ben also talks about his training leading into his recent 61:38 Half Marathon personal best as well as his new role at Streamile Athletes.

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Nick Bester is the founder and head coach of one of the worlds fastest growing coaching companies - Best Athletics. 

Nick is a sub elite marathon runner himself with a sub 2:20 Marathon target at the Rotterdam Marathon in April.

In this conversation Nick shares insights into starting a coaching company and growing it to be over 100 members in size in a little over a year, his training plans to run under 2:20 at the Rotterdam Marathon, simple tips for runners to improve... and more.

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Peter Bii is the coach of the Asics Chojo Project in Iten, Kenya. In this episode Peter sat down with Tait Hearps and Angus Teeton (who has been producing our videos in Kenya) and told us all about how his athletes live and train. He also gives us great insight into what life in the training camp looks like for athletes, and the pathways for junior athletes in Kenya. Members of the Chojo Group include Hillary Koech (59:42 half marathon), Ronald Kirui (59:39 half marathon) and Alfred Kipchirchir (60:58 half marathon), all of whom have featured in recent videos coming out of Iten.

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Angus Teeton (the man creating the training videos out of Kenya)  joins the Sweat Elite podcast to discuss all things Sweat Elite Youtube.

This is a different format to our regular podcast - a conversation between Angus and Matt about creating the Sweat Elite Training Sessions Youtube Channel - how it started, where it's headed and plenty of stories over the last 7.5 months.

Topics and questions answered (survey via Matt's Instagram) include:

* Have you fallen off the bike while filming? (short answer - a few times) 
* Why aren’t more females featured? 
* Camera equipment and software used 
* Are we nervous before filming any athletes? 
* Boulder drama (between some coaches) leading to Matt no longer filming them 
* Awkward moments 
* Balancing training and filming 
* Funniest athletes worked with 
* Much more!

We've had the most amount of new subscribers ever in a single week this week (over Christmas). Thank you to our subscribers!

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Merry Christmas from the team at Sweat Elite!

Our Christmas day release features Jim Walmsley - one of the greatest ultra-marathoners of all time. He has the 50-mile world record, and holds the course records at (among many others) UTCT 100km, Tarawera Ultramarathon, Lake Sonoma 50 and Western States Endurance Run 100 miler which he won for the third time this year.

This is Jim’s second appearance on the Sweat Elite podcast (first episode is #27). Our conversation delves into his last 18 months of racing and training. We discuss things that have changed in his approach to preparing for the wide variety of races he competes in, nutrition, race logistics, cross training, his race plans for the coming year and where he sees trail running heading. Jim took time out of a busy holiday season schedule to have this conversation a couple days out from Christmas, he gives lots of insight into what goes on behind the scenes for him to pull off the massive feats for which he is so renown.

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