Welcome back friends! With fall marathon season just around the corner we're unpacking all the questions around how and how frequently to use long run workouts. Then we share thoughts on the New Balance More Trail v3 and On CloudBoom Echo 3 (spoiler: they're good!) before we close with our speculation on the future of super shoes.

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Thanks to your questions, this week we tackle the ins and outs of effectively using prep races. Plus we give detailed reviews of the Saucony Endorphin Elite, New Balance SC Elite 3, and the best recovery shoe in the game: the OOFOS slide.

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We kick off Mile 156 with a listener question on building a shoe rotation and determining shoe durability. At minute twenty the discussion shifts to our main topic: the four big questions that should guide us as distance runners. These aren't the nuts and bolts of specifics workouts, but rather the guiding principles that will make us better runners and people for the long haul.

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We're back from summer break and a Seconds Flat legend makes his return. Benji is back to chat about sessions that fit well in August for cross country or fall marathon builds, a summer of electrifying track performances, the world's greatest athlete, the recently released Chicago Marathon fields, and more. Enjoy!

Welcome to Part Four of The Road to L.A. ’84, our multi-episode retrospective on the 40th anniversary of a seminal moment in a golden era of marathoning. We’re telling the behind-the-scenes account of the athletes, the training, and the build-up races. This week we turn back the clock for a nostalgic look inside sports and pop culture one year out from the Games of the Twenty-Third Olympiad. MTV ruled the airwaves, Michael Jackson transformed his hit single Thriller into a fourteen-minute movie that still ranks as the greatest music video ever, North Carolina State Coach Jim Valvano madly sprinted around the University of New Mexico basketball court looking for someone to hug after the greatest Cinderella run in NCAA history, and the Baby Boomers grip of American culture loosened as Generation X came of age. 40 years later, this is the story of Los Angeles in the 1980s, the world’s cultural capital, and its history...

Welcome to part 3 of The Road to L.A. ’84, our multi-episode retrospective on the 40th anniversary of a seminal moment in a golden era of marathoning. We’re telling the behind-the-scenes account of the athletes, the training, and the build-up races. The week we take you to the Land of the Rising Sun and Morning in America. 40 years later, here’s the story of the second running boom’s prolific marathoning depth...

We went off course early for an important 80s pop culture discussion, but came full circle with advice on how to manage and train for in-race adversity -- like Phil's off-course adventure in his recent half marathon. In between those topics we examined the 3 variables that dictate your training: duration, frequency, and intensity. How do we manipulate these to best train? Which do we increase first and why? How does each impact the others? Find out in Mile 152.

Welcome to Part 2 of The Road to L.A. ’84 our multi-episode retrospective on the 40th anniversary of a seminal moment in a golden era of marathoning. We’re telling the behind-the-scenes account of the athletes, the training, and the build-up races. This week we take you to Boston 1983 -- a pinnacle of American marathon dominance. 40 years later, here’s the story of Boston 1983...

Welcome to Part 1 of The Road to L.A. ’84 our multi-episode retrospective on the 40th anniversary of a seminal moment in a golden era of marathoning. We’re telling the behind-the-scenes account of the athletes, the training, and the build-up races. This week we take you to Rotterdam 1983. It was billed as an epic showdown between arguably the world’s two best marathoners: Alberto Salazar and Rob de Castella. 40 years later, here’s the story of Rotterdam 1983...

Chebet beats Kipchoge! Kiptum runs 2:01! Emma Bates leads through Heartbreak Hill! Sifan Hassan has an epic comeback! It's time to recap the marathon battles at Boston and London.

Plus, we're unveiling our upcoming historical retrospective series on the 1984 L.A. Olympic Marathons. We're going deep on the athletes, the training, and the build-up races leading to the 40th anniversary of a seminal event in marathon history.