Today I’m having a discussion about training principles, team dynamics, and career progression with Coach Adam St.Pierre.  Adam is a very accomplished ultramarathon runner and coach, including for Carmichael Training Systems and his own ASTP Coaching.  He’s made a significant mark in the world of skiing.  He was until recently the driving force behind the Boulder Nordic Junior Racing Team here in Colorado, teaching young cross-country skiers, and turning dozens into All-Americans and sending many onto the U.S. Ski team and onto many collegiate teams.  He is the Cross Country Sport Coordinator for U.S. Ski & Snowboard.  After a long time in Boulder, Adam is currently moving his young outdoorsy family to Bozeman, Montana, where he took over an underperforming Montana State University Nordic ski team this year and led them to a 5th-place finish in the NCAA Championships this past March.  Adam attributes a lot of the Bobcats’ success to transforming a subpar team culture into a positive one, something that comes rather naturally given his easy-going nature.  I think there is a lot for everyone to learn from this great conversation, whether you are a coach, athlete with aspirations, or are part of any kind of team.  Adam previously appeared on the WASP with David in episode #91 in early 2020 talking about mental toughness versus physical strength, so that’s an episode in these pandemic/post-pandemic days definitely worth going back to have another listen to.  Please enjoy!

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In this Power Play episode, I discuss how to use hill training to make the transition to speedwork, as well as how to train on hills to make you a stronger hill runner in trail races and ultramarathon distances.

In coming weeks I’ll be making an announcement about the Unfuck your Fridge Challenge to help you adopt a better eating lifestyle and improve your health.  Also, please contact me if like many people during this pandemic, you have written a book and are looking for editing or proofreading services to ensure that it goes to press perfectly-written without typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors.  Nothing destroys your book’s credibility more than poor writing and editing!  

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Kim Welk came to me several months ago because she’d heard I had edited David Clark’s last two books to see if I would proofread the manuscript for the book she is writing called Why (Not) Me about Brad Kelley.  While reading this very easy-flowing draft, it immediately hit me that Brad’s story would be well worth telling as a WASP episode.  Brad was stuck with an autoimmune disease called Guillaume-Barré Syndrome, and his doctors gave him the devastating news that he might not walk again.  You know how this is going to turn out.  Brad stopped saying, Why Me?, and flipped that into Why Not Me?  Brad went on to complete various Ironmans, and eventually the Kona Ironman World Championships.  He has since completed Double Ironmans and longer events, and does a lot of heart-warming work to inspire and encourage kids with disabilities as well.  I think you’ll find this episode to be very inspirational as well as the book Why (Not) Me when it is available.

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Brad Kelley:
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In this Power Play episode, I talk about some recent examples of resilience and how it can be part of having a positive outlook on life.

In coming weeks I’ll be making an announcement about the Unfuck your Fridge Challenge to help you adopt a better eating lifestyle and improve your health.  Also, please contact me if like many people during this pandemic, you have written a book and are looking for editing or proofreading services to ensure that it goes to press perfectly-written without typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors.  Nothing destroys your book’s credibility more than poor writing and editing!  

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With almost no races happening, running FKTs, or Fastest Known Times, has become a really big deal during the pandemic.  Today’s visitor to the Hive, Tyler Andrews, is a Hoka-sponsored athlete, a 2:15 marathoner, and 50-mile national champion, who I first met in 2017 in Peru when he led a group of us on a magical journey running on the Inca Trail up the beautiful Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu, one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the World.  Tyler’s running career has bounced through many precipitous ups and downs, but he always has managed to find a way to quickly rebound from the lows to hit new highs, literally.  Immediately after running a disappointing race in the 2020 Olympic marathon trials, he headed to Nepal and set the FKT for running up and down the Everest Base Camp trail, which tops out at about 17,900 feet.  He became the first ever to cover the approximately 65 miles in less than 24 hours.  It certainly helps that Tyler bases himself in high-altitude locales like Flagstaff, AZ, and Quito, Ecuador.  

In 2018, Tyler set the world record for 50K, running 125 mind-numbing laps on a track in 2:46:06, breaking by two minutes a record that had stood for 38 years.  And listen you high school and newbie runners, this comes from a guy who didn’t break 18 minutes in high school cross country, a time achieved by most of the women runners at the Olympic trials.  

Earlier this year, Tyler teamed with other runners to attempt to break the world record for 100K.  Tyler’s day didn’t go as well as hoped as Jim Walmsley came within a mere 9 seconds of the mark.  So Tyler headed back down to South America to set several FKTs on some of the highest Andean peaks, higher than 5000 meters, and in some cases active volcanoes, in an ongoing project he is calling the Los10FKT.  It’s definitely worth a follow as he conquers those challenges.

Tyler has also founded the Chaski Endurance Collective, an online community with coaches from around the world empowering athletes to reach new heights in their training.  They have a running retreat coming up in Flagstaff in June, and Tyler will also be leading a trip in late summer on the famous UTMB race route in Europe.  We had a great chat, so please enjoy!

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Chaski Endurance Collective:
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In this Power Play episode, I talk about the Power of Positivity and why it always pays to have a good attitude!

In coming weeks I’ll be making an announcement about the Unfuck your Fridge Challenge to help you adopt a better eating lifestyle and improve your health.  Also, please contact me if like many people during this pandemic, you have written a book and are looking for editing or proofreading services to ensure that it goes to press perfectly-written without typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors.  Nothing destroys your book’s credibility more than poor writing and editing!  

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Today we are going to go as high as we can.  Literally.  Dr. Jon Kedrowski and I recorded this episode a few weeks ago when he was in a hotel room in Kathmandu, Nepal, but I’ve released this episode following his trek to Everest base camp and as he is preparing to climb Mt. Everest.   We also talked about Dr. Jon and fellow adventurer Colin O'Brady’s January attempt to achieve the first winter ascent of K2, the second-tallest peak in the world and one where notoriously the ratio is one climber death for every 5.5 successful ascents versus one in 33 on Everest, so it is about six times more deadly!  And most of those attempts in those counts were in the summer.  Brutal winter weather conditions, like -50F and hurricane-force winds, prevented Dr. Jon and Colin to attempt the summit, although 10 Sherpas did reach the K2 summit themselves.  Yet at about the same time five other very experienced climbers lost their lives on what is known as the “Savage Mountain.”  I strongly encourage you to follow his and Colin O’Brady’s absolutely riveting social media posts, especially during their current push to the summit of Everest, and what will be Colin's subsequent attempt to summit Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest peak, both without oxygen!  The Sherpas and other mountain guides and porters are truly amazing, among other things hauling a stunning amount of gear to the base camps at very high elevations literally on their backs.  Dr. Jon has created several initiatives to support them and their families, especially since much of their income has evaporated due to the pandemic, so you can also find links on his social media to help them out.  Dr. Jon has written books about his successful quests to sleep on top of all 55 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks, and ski and sleep on the volcanoes of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, and has a new book in the works.  Along the way, he speaks, leads clients on treks and on skis, and more.  He definitely has a few irons in the fire!  I think you’ll enjoy and be motivated by this chat. 

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Dr. Jon Kedrowski:
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Very worthy support (and raffle) for the Sherpas: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/support-sherpas-porters-and-teahouse-owners-in-need-everest-2021-expedition

Colin O'Brady:
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Instagram: @colinobrady

You’ve heard the old bromide that on any given day, you might get hit by a bus.  Well this guest has.  Leon Gray, who was 65 years old at the time, not only survived getting hit by a bus that put him in a coma for two months and broke just about everything on one side of his body, but he advertises it on a shirt he wears!  He had a lot of great support from his local running club, and he progressed from a wheelchair to using a walker to eventually resuming his life as an ultramarathon runner.  Leon and I were able to share a lot of laughs as fellow old coots trying to rebound from broken bodies, but his tale outstrips my history of surgeries and other assorted injuries.  I think you’ll enjoy and be motivated by this chat.  

I have often said that just when you think you’ve heard about someone doing something extreme beyond comprehension, someone is doing something even sicker.  Well today I’m talking with a guy who fits that category, Walt Handloser.  How many times do you think would be the limit for finishing 100-mile races?  One a month?  Two a month?  Right now Walt has set the bar really high at 50 of them in one year!  That’s basically running a 100-mile race somewhere in the country every single weekend for a year.  Not bad for a 5’6” guy who used to weigh 275 pounds, right?  Plus, just think of the logistics.  Walt is an absolute master of data analysis and using Excel spreadsheets, and he dialed that in for this project, too.  Now he has his sights set on loftier goals.  But he has also added a fun wrinkle to his quest.  If you have ever ached to earn that magic 100-mile belt buckle, keep listening.

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In this Power Play episode, I share tips for race pacing you can use as you get back into racing in 2021.  Feel free to contact me with questions, I'm happy to help you succeed in your upcoming races!

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