The Seconds Flat Running Podcast

New Balance Rebel v4 | Saucony Endorphin Speed v4 | Saucony Endorphin Pro v4 | ASICS Metaspeed Sky Paris With so many exciting new models dropping in March we spent time in 4 of the most anticipated shoes of the spring. What's best for you? Tune in to find out all the details about each. Questions, comments, or show ideas? Email us: secondsflatpodcast@gmail.com Enjoy the show? We'd love your feedb...

This week we take you inside the world and national records that fell at an electrifying Millrose Games, analyze the new super shoes worn by top finishers at the U.S. Marathon Team Trials, and bid farewell to greats Kelvin Kiptum and Henry Rono. Plus, if you'll be racing the Greenville Half Marathon on 2/24 we hope to see you there! Join us pre-race for a warm up from the Center St. parking lot in...

It's time for one of our favorite events: The Olympic Team Trials Marathon. We preview the course and make our predictions -- most assuredly our worst predictions yet. Then, we review the race experience at the Austin 3M Half Marathon and close with Phil's shoe of the year for 2023 and the most anticipated shoes of 2024 for Travis.

As a new year dawns, we're reflecting on what has worked and what's missing from our training. To help you through the reflective process we've designed "ideal training weeks" for each other based on our 2024 target races. These microcycles incorporate runs we enjoy, runs that have yielded success, and runs that might be a missing ingredient for greater success.

The Norwegian Model of double threshold, Parker Valby's cross training, Kelvin Kiptum's massive mileage and quality. We're diving into each and unpacking what can be scaled and applied for better running in 2024. Questions, comments, or show ideas? Email us: secondsflatpodcast@gmail.com Enjoy the show? We'd love your feedback in a 5 star rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts columbusrunning.com

After 2 years removed from the marathon and a year battling serious injury, Columbus Running Company Elite athlete Sakiko Minigawa ran the California International Marathon last week chasing the Olympic Trials standard. Despite the obstacles, and perhaps because of them, she raced to a new personal best of 2:35:52. As Booker T. Washington wrote, “Success is to be measured not so much by the positi...

Marathon season wrapped up with fireworks at Valencia, Fukuoka, and California International, and indoor season opened in spectacular, record-breaking fashion at Boston University. We recap the action and discuss what these results mean for the sport in 2024. Questions, comments, or show ideas? Email us: secondsflatpodcast@gmail.com Enjoy the show? We'd love your feedback in a 5 star review on Spo...

CS Lewis once wrote, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” Justin Melott personifies Lewis’s words as he quests after personal bests from the mile to 100 miles. Justin is a deep thinker on running, a dear friend, and a Columbus Running Company manager. Moreover, he’s an inspiration to those of us aspiring to new heights in our running long past the glory days of inte...

We're tackling your toughest training questions this week: our top Thanksgiving dishes, how to construct threshold sessions, what we've learned about training so far from the Road to L.A. '84 series, how to fight late race fatigue and cramping, and how to best use the Moneghetti Fartlek. Plus we review exciting new shoes from adidas and New Balance! Questions, comments, or show ideas? Email us: se...

Welcome to Part Six 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 rewind to the 1983 New York City Marathon — site of one of the most thrilling finishes ever seen in sports. A race we’ve been so excite...

Welcome to Part Five 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 rewind to the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. After a spring of epic clashes in Rotterdam and Boston, the world’s...

What do the recent world record performances by Tigst Assefa and Kelvin Kiptum mean for the future of the sport? Is a sub 2 hour marathon imminent? Can the Japanese Grand Championships provide a model for strengthening the USA marathon team selection? Who might match the drama from Berlin and Chicago at the upcoming New York Marathon? We consider those topics plus we answer marathon-related listen...

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. Email us thoughts and questions: secondsflatpodcast@gmail.com And i...

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. Email us questions or ideas: secondsflatpodcast@gmail.com

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. Questions or show...

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 r...

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 mara...

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 firs...

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 d...

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 e...

Kipchoge is coming to Boston, 4 of the 5 fastest men ever are headed to London, star American women and men will be on the line at both races, and Phil promises fireworks! It's time for our preview of the crown jewels of the spring road racing season.

As we near America’s most historic road race, the Boston Marathon, Dakotah Lindwurm of Minnesota Distance Elite and PUMA Running joins us for a preview of Boston’s 127th running. Dakotah enters Boston with a 2:25 marathon personal best and back-to-back Grandma’s Marathon victories. She shares her training, race goals, and reflections on tune-up races at Gate River Run 15K and the New York City Hal...

As we return to race-focused preparation let's take a peak into our recent training. Then, we'll complete our March Madness marathon bracket with 16 of the best female marathoners ever competing for the prize of Greatest of All Time.