Most Pleasant Exhaustion

In this week's short podcast, we offer our thoughts on Part One of the new 30-For-30 documentary on Lance Armstrong, and we tell the story of Keegan Swenson--the pro mountain biker who went out and broke Phil Gaimon's Everesting record only four days after Gaimon set it. We also have an extended segment on what's bringing us joy with a special guest star: Candler Budd from Grab the Remote!

This week, we talked about the three different ways that Michelle, Patrick, and George are setting up their training right now. All three of us are accustomed to choosing a goal and building methodically to it, but without a clear picture of which races will be happening, we have been forced to rethink our approach. We each have our own strategies, and we discussed people in the news who are takin...

For Episode 140 of the podcast, we caught up with one another a bit, then we talked about Ahmaud Arbery, a bit about The Impossible Games, a bit about the Atlanta Track Club director's reflections on the Olympic Marathon Trials, and a bit about VRAAM. (Yes, that's VIRTUAL Race Across America!) And of course, we talked about the things that are bringing us joy.

This week, we talked what we've been doing in lockdown, including Michelle's 10K time trial training, George's virtual bike races, and Patrick's steady mileage building. We also discussed some new research that shows that very short bursts of activity may counteract the drawbacks of sitting. Finally, for news, we talked about the popularity of virtual races right now, the Peachtree Road Race's new...

Episode 138 of the podcast is our first podcast on YouTube! This week, we talked what we've been doing in lockdown, including Michelle's 10K time trial training and George's indoor cycling. We also discussed a bit about how Zoom tires you out, and how endurance sports may look as we begin easing social restrictions. Finally, we talked about the things that are bringing us joy.

This week, we update you a bit on how we're doing amidst the changes in our lives right now, plus bring you another round of things that are making us happy.

For the second week in a row, we discuss some of the things that regularly bring us joy--old races, funny news, YouTube videos, podcasts, and even a Facebook group. Enjoy!

Amidst all of the things out there that are making us sad right now, we shared a few things that make us happy--a couple of books, some races from the past (that you can find on YouTube!), and even a video of a musical performance that you simply must watch.

Now that pretty much everyone has been relegated to base training, we talk a bit about what base training is and how the approach to it has changed over the last decade or so.

This week, we discussed the implications of the IOC's monumental decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics until at least 2021. In addition, we discussed a few of the ways that folks are staying fit and connected while safely social distancing and respecting COVID-19 quarantines.

This week, we added a bit to our Olympic Trials Marathon coverage, but we spent most of our time talking about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected endurance sports around the globe. Thanks for listening!

George describes his raceat the Los Angeles Marathon. He entered the LA Marathon at the last minute following the cancellation of the Tokyo Marathon. Notes on the course, the expo, and the overall experience are included!

This week, we discussed the incredible event that was the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials! We recap the race, we describe the feel of the event, and we ask a few important questions moving ahead!

This week, we spoke with Chuck Sims from Elemental Altitude. Last year, Chuck opened this cycling and running facility where athletes can train in conditions that simulate high altitude. This enables endurance athletes to get the same sort of physiological boost that athletes who train at high altitude get. Chuck talked to us about altitude training in general and about his facility.

This week, the whole crew interviewed Morgan VanGorder. Morgan is a graduate of the University of Georgia and a member of the Atlanta Track Club Elite team. At the 2019 Twin Cities Marathon, she qualified for the Olympic Trials Marathon here in Atlanta. It wasn't an easy road, though, and Morgan told us about her development as a runner, her goal-oriented approach, and the feeling of qualifying fo...

This week, we talked to Erik Hall. Erik is a runner, coach, and GPS aficionado. As an engineer and an officer on a Navy submarine, Erik learned a great deal about the benefits and shortcomings of GPS, and he has brought this insight to his training and coaching.

To kick off our 2020 race reports, Patrick and George took the podcast on the road to Jekyll Island to run the inaugural Jekyll Island Half Marathon! Before the race, we described our goals and expectations for this tune-up race, and afterwards, we talked about how the race went for us.

This week, Michelle came on the podcast to offer her take on some of the biggest stories of the year: the demise of the NOP, the first sub-two-hour marathon, the rise of the next generation of great cyclists, and the amazing number of people who have qualified for the Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta.

In Part One of our Year in Review podcast, Patrick and George looked back on 2019 using Strava's year-end report as an entry point. In 2019, Strava athletes uploaded more than 822 million activities, collectively covering more than 8 billion miles. All that training yielded a mountain of data that sheds light on different trends inside the endurance community.

This week, we're bringing you another of our race reports! We spoke with Kelly Kingsfield about a week before she left to compete in the Ironman World Championship in Kona, and we followed up with her about a week after she got back. In the pre-interview, she told us about her anxieties, goals, and the long path she took took to get to the starting line. In the post-interview, we got to hear wheth...

This week, Michelle, Patrick, and George were all in the studio to discuss Mary Cain's allegations the she was physically and psychologically abused by Alberto Salazar with the support of Nike during her time at the Nike Oregon Project. We considered the nature of the allegations, what this means for Nike, how this fits into the overall context of the sport, and where this leaves us as endurance a...

This week, we interviewed Prentiss Douglass! Over the last several months, Prentiss has been running every street in his hometown of San Francisco. Literally: he's traversing every single street inside the city limits on foot. He shared with us the logistical and physical hurdles that have accompanied this unique challenge, and he described the insights that he has gained about his city and his ru...

This week, Michelle Frank is back to discuss today's New York City Marathon, the recent retirement of Shalane Flanagan, and the renewed controversy surrounding Nike's Vaporfly and AlphaFly shoes.

This week, we talked to athlete and author Kate Edwards. When she was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, Kate was told that she cold no longer run, bike, and swim. We discussed what it was like to lose this big part of her life, how it influenced her interactions with patients at her physical therapy clinic, and how it led her to open Precision Performance & Physical T...

We spoke to our new friend Robert Hudson in September about his ambitious goal at the Berlin Marathon. We soon heard that he had an even more ambitious goal: PR at Berlin, then run Chicago and New York only a few weeks later. We followed up with him the day after Chicago and found out that he did even better than expected!