Sam & Katie sit down with Brad Milosevic — the podcast’s fastest marathoner yet. Brad lives in Canberra and in 2015 pulled off something wild: winning both of Australia’s biggest fun runs, taking out City2Surf in 42:12 and the Melbourne Marathon in 2:16:00. Over the next few years he chased the Olympic qualifier, ran another 2:16, and represented Australia at the 2017 World Championships.

Across 2017–2018 he rewrote PBs from 3000m through to the Half Marathon, crediting much of that rise to training in Ken Green’s stable with a strong group of high-level runners. Brad also shares his “phone book” analogy — years of consistent training stacked together so you might rip out a few pages, but you can’t tear the whole book.

After one last shot at a fast time at Lake Biwa, Brad moved into a new career as a primary school teacher. Now he runs for fun, though somehow finds himself back in sub-16 5km shape off a few weeks of jogging and jumping in with Phillo Saunders’ group.

Katie builds steadily with a 97km week and some conservative track work. Sam is in Sydney running 70km with a couple of solid sessions in daily trainers. Brad recaps four jogs.

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