AidStation Podcast 016 – Soft Feelings And Hard Numbers: The Mileage Question with Kerry Suter and Ali Pottinger.
Kia ora e te whānau! The great questions of our age answered by two of the greatest minds (and Matt and Eugene)!!
When it comes to training, how much is too much? Or too little? And do we go by time or distance? And how will we know?!?!
The answer? It depends … sort of ...
This is a great discussion with SQUADRUN coaches Kerry Suter and Ali Pottinger around the quantitative and qualitative approach to training for your next big event.
Matt reminds us how context is everything, Ali refuses to be judged for completionism, and Eugene and Kerry stack big numbers to the sky. Enjoy!!
Jenny Hirst’s 60km for 60 Challenge
Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake
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Our mates at Squadrun have come up with a special four week training trial for listeners of DCR. Now as you’ll know from listening to DCR over the years, Squadrun is the baby of Kerry Suter and Ali Pottinger, and they have coached thousands of runners to success at a bunch of events we love and cherish and if you’ve been to any trail races on either side of the Tasman you’ll have seen the squadrun colours being represented strongly. So, if you want to give it a crack, here’s the link.
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Where we’re headed:
August: Come join Matt and Ali in the Blue Mountains for the Firies Climb for Motor Neurone Disease. 24 hours of climbing up and down the Furber Stairs, for a great cause.
December: We’re heading back to the mighty Kepler Challenge in Te Anau. Entries open July 6. Don’t miss out!
Running to a standstill: How Arthur Lydiard pushed me further than ever … and then I went too far
– Eugene
In 2004, I met the legendary coach Arthur Lydiard. When I say “met”, I mean “properly met”.
Over the years, I’d been at places where he had been but I was always too afraid to say hello. He was living in south-east Auckland, not a million miles from where I was growing up, so plenty of people at my local running club knew him. He even coached one of my friends, but I was still too scared to speak with him.
In my mind, he’d become a demigod.
When I was about 12 years old, I bought one of his books, Running with Lydiard, co-written with Garth Gilmour. I read it on the bus going to school, and at night when I was supposed to be going to sleep. Over and over again. It was like I wanted to memorise the genius captured within.
The book laid out the science and methodology beyond Lydiard’s training methods, fundamentals which are still followed by many today.
And, of course, they were ideas he’d put into astonishing practice in 1960 when he led a bunch of runners from his home in Mt Roskill all the way to Olympic glory. Peter Snell, Barry Magee and Murray Halberg all became household names training under Lydiard – and many more were to come.
I knew all of this, and so much more, as I stood on his front door steps in Beachlands in 2004, nervously waiting to shake his hand.
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