This a shorter than usual Recovery Ramble, the first half of which is more of a rant! It covers some of the issues we are facing in our lives today, my experience of them, before moving on to some things to think about to get through the difficulties we all face, in one way or another.

Hope you enjoy it, it was good to get some of it off my chest, so thanks for listening!

Steve

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The first Recovery Ramble of 2021, is appropriately all about goal (or milestone) setting.

This ramble basically talks about how setting the goals is far from the end of the exercise. It is actually a 5 stage,continuous process.

This follows previous episodes (nos 12, 15, 25, 44, 59 and 64) which included rambles about my journey in running, what The Milestone Pursuit is trying to do, the importance of values driven purpose, imposter syndrome, short termism and social media.

I hope you enjoy the ramble, and get something from it as you head into 2021 (spoiler alert - start with what are you going to do tomorrow!)

Steve

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Welcome to the Christmas 2020 edition of run coaching in your ear. In this session, given the state of the world, I felt it was time to return to the roots of the podcast coaching, and practice some mindfulness, with an extra special bonus 5 minutes at the end focused on reflections on 2020, what have you achieved, what have you learned, how have you developed?

The session carries a loose 12 days of Christmas theme featuring 3 French Hens, 2 Turtle Doves and Partridge in a Pear Tree, or is it a Pear in a Partridge Tree?

Thanks again for all your support and encouragement this year with the podcast (and beyond), it means a lot and as I reflect on my own 2020, the podcast features heavily as something that I just couldn't have envisaged this time last year. I wonder what the next 12 months holds?

Take Care

Steve

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Welcome to another session of run-coaching in your ear. This week we're progressing through the paces, as we shorten the reps. Starting with 9 minutes, 7, 5, 3, and 1, all with 2 mins rest in between.

Listen out for lots of chat in the intervals about training in the winter (as well as lots of huffing and puffing through the reps)

Warm up starts at about 4 minutes

Session starts at about 10 minutes

Take care

Steve

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Hi - Something a bit different for the podcast - a chat with Ewan fresh from his newest Marathon PB at the weekend.

Ewan came to The Milestone Pursuit as an athlete in 2017, and is also now a coach with us and as such the way we work together has changed quite a lot, to good effect.

So, in this we cover a little about the race, and then get stuck into a chat about the role of talent vs hard work, the importance of controlling the controllables in covid afflicted 2020, and then the ever changing nature of our coach-athlete relationship as it isn't necessarily what you think it might be!

Hope you enjoy it!

Steve

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Hello

This week's session of run coaching in your ear is 6 sets of 2 mins at 5k pace/effort, 60 seconds rest, then 40s as hard as you can, 90 seconds rest. The intervals are full of chat about running in the cold including why women feel it more than men (usually).

We have a pre-amble to warm up for the warm-up, where we briefly discuss Ewan's performance in the marathon yesterday (2.19!), and East End Lions U8s 6-3 covid affected loss to Queens Park Sharks.

Warm up starts at 10 minutes

Session starts at c.20 minutes

Put a hat and gloves on, maybe have a hot chocolate before you go. Enjoy the session.

Steve

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In this, the latest in the Recovery Ramble series I talk about social media inspired by the Netflix documentary (the Social Dilemma) and Facebook's response (see link here..https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/What-The-Social-Dilemma-Gets-Wrong.pdf).

This ramble basically talks about the ups, the downs of social media and some thoughts on how to deal with the more negative elements. I even talk about Shawn Mendes. I nearly sang.

This follows previous episodes (nos 12, 15, 25, 44 and 59) which included rambles about my journey in running, what The Milestone Pursuit is trying to do, the importance of values driven purpose, imposter syndrome ad short termism. In particular it builds on the idea of imposter syndrome.

FYI - I'm not immune to any of this, I'm not perfect, you don't have to agree with what I say, and that's part of the point I make.

Steve

PS - Please comment, review, and if you like it and want to hear more, share it and subscribe to the podcast (yes, I realise the irony of this) and please feel free to help the development of more content like this through our Patreon page  https://www.patreon.com/themilestonepursuit - or of course ignore it all completely and enjoy the content for what it is

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Hi - it's not really another reference to an Arctic Monkeys track, there's just a bit of chat about running in San Francisco.

This week's session of run coaching in your ear is a mixed bag of 10 minutes at your comfortably hard pace, 4 x 1 minutes as hard as you can, followed by another 10 mins of comfortably hard.

There is also some chat about Epping Forest where this session was recorded, the possible return of racing and my own training.

Warm-up starts at around 5 mins

Main session starts at around 13 mins

Enjoy the session and let me know where you are in the world!

Steve

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Hi - we're back for more run coaching in your ear! The way it works is simple - download the podcast, and run with me telling you what to do, just like you would if I was with you in person

This week's session is an endorphin releaser recorded at the Olympic Stadium - get out there, smash it out, forget about the world - it's 4 sets of 800m at 5k pace (or 3 mins whichever comes first), then 400m faster (or 90s which ever comes first).

There is also a pre-amble about the easing of lockdown and the British Athletics Olympic Trials

Oh, and there's some quiz questions and some trivia too....something for everyone

Warm-up starts at around 12 mins

Main session starts at around 20 mins

Enjoy the session!

Steve

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We reach the mid-way point of lockdown2 - assuming it does end on December 2nd.....

Here, after some ideas about how to cope with the no-mans land of the middle part of any task, like lockdown or a run training programme (you know, that part where the early enthusiasm has dwindled and the end is not yet in sight) we have a mixed bag of 2 mins of hard running, then 10 mins comfortably hard, 2 mins hard, 8 mins comfortably hard and finish with 2 mins as hard as you can. 5 reps in total, with 2 minutes rest in between each rep.

Warm up starts at 14 minutes

Session starts at c. 23 minutes

Hope you enjoy the session and don't get stuck in no man's land.

Steve

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