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Run4PRs
We build stronger runners at Run4PRs Coaching. This podcast is filled with training tips & personal stories from the @run4prs coaches like 13x Boston Qualifier Victoria Phillippi. Our goal is to empower you with training tips & help you become the best athlete you can be. Want to get a more customized approach or consult with us directly on YOUR running questions? —-> www.Run4prs.com for a free 7 day trial
Episodes
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94. Strength, Yoga, Nutrition, Foam Rolling: All The Little Things Add Up
Nutrition, Yoga, Sleep, Foam Rolling: all the little things Running takes up a lot of time! I know just running 30-40 miles per week can often take 6-10 hours…
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93. Breathing While Running: Why Is It Hard Sometimes?
Ever finish a hard interval during a workout or a race and have to catch your breath? When you run up a hill do you notice your breathing is labored? We often…
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92. Coming Back After Time Off: How To Start Training
How to start training hard again after offseason This is the time of year when most people are getting stared thinking about training again for spring races…
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91. Polarized Training: Easy Days Easy & Hard Days Hard
Polarized training may sound like a fancy word, but it is the way we should all be training to reach our potential in the sport of distance running. Have you…
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90. What’s the best running shoe?
90. How to find the perfect pair of running shoes! One of the most common questions we get is ‘what is the best type of running shoe’. It is so crazy how many…
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89. Heart Rate, Effort, or Pace: How Should You Run?
89. Should you run based on effort, pace or HR There are many ways you can gauge effort on a run. With all the gadgets around now, it seems like the data is…
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88. Morning vs. Afternoon Running: It Doesn’t Matter When You Run
88. How to find a routine for success: morning or afternoon runners When I first started running, I worked an early shift, so I had to be an afternoon runner…
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87. How to Become a Run Coach
How to become a running coach We get asked this question all the time! Being a run coach is such a unique endeavour. On the surface level it may not seem that…
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86. Reflecting on 2020 accomplishments& setting goals for 2021
Reflecting on 2020 accomplishments & Setting goals for 2021 2021 is right around the corner. We are in the last month of the year. Congratulations on all that…
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85. Staying Motivated Over The Holidays
Staying motivated over the holidays The holidays are officially here. If you are anything like us, this can be a tough time of year to stay motivated. So many…
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84. Cold Running Temps: Tips For Dressing in the Cold
Tips for dressing in the cold In the last episode we talked about staying motivated to run outside in the cold. In case we inspired you a little bit we will be…
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83. Training Plans & Online Run Coaching: How does it all work?
86. Getting a training plan & working with a coach: how it works How does Run4PRs work? I know some of you already work with us as athletes, but maybe others…
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82. How FAST can you run? NEW PROGRAM RELEASE!
Visit www.Run4prs.co/faster to get more information on the program. It’s that time of year again! The dreaded winter training and off season. There are usually…
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81. Racing Your Best 5k: Turkey Trot
If you are in the USA you know that it is that time of year again! People are gearing up for Thanksgiving day turkey trots. This tradition has been growing…
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80. Cold Weather Running: How to Stay Motivated When Temps Drop
If you live anywhere near us, it is starting to get really cold really fast. I am not talking 40-50 degrees. I am talking single digits and negative wind…
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79. Setting Goals for Winter & 2021
Last week we chatted about the importance of the off season. We want to make sure we take time off to recover between major training blocks. However, a lot of…
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78. The Importance of Off-Season Training
The off-season is coming. We spent all year building up for big races this fall. After your goal races it can be a time of recovery for most athletes. We…
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77. Should You Do A “Back Up Race” If The First One Doesn’t Go As Planned
77. Doing a back-up marathon if the first one doesn’t go as planned We have all been there. Train hard, in great shape then something uncontrollable happens on…
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76. Post Racing Blues & Recovery
76. Marathon recovery & blues We have been chatting a lot about race day planning and taper, but we have not yet chatted about the aftermath that may come…
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75. Traveling To Races
Traveling to your goal races Fall is quickly approaching! That might mean some runners will be traveling across the country to their goal races. With Covid-19…
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74. Calming Pre-race & Taper Nerves
74. Calming the taper nerves As fall races approach, we see more and more athletes tapering for their goal races. You know how taper is. You spend months…
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73. Pacing Plan: How To Run Your Best Race Time
It is so important to go into a race mentally ready to tackle the big event ahead. Part of being mentally prepared is having a pacing plan and knowing exactly…
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72. Developing Race Day Goals: How to Assess Your Fitness
Race day is approaching for athletes! Many people are looking back over their cycles or thinking ahead to what their goals will be for races this fall. How do…
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71. Tapering: Why You Should & How To
Marathon tapering dos and don’t We are getting to the fall racing season. The temperatures are hopefully dropping near you but if not, don’t worry they will be…
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70. What You Need To Qualify For Boston & Last Chance BQ Tips
Last chance BQ tips September is almost here! That means that the Boston Marathon registration is almost here. The next few weeks will be the ‘last chance’ for…
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69. Injuries: How to Avoid & Comeback
Injuries happen and they can be tough! One of the biggest questions we get is what to do if you get injured & how to come back from an injury. We are going to…
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68. Nutrition & Fueling
Perfect your race day fueling plan As our long runs increase, fueling can become one of the most important factors of our run. We will be chatting about the 24…
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67. Peak Marathon Training Benchmarks
Marathon PEAKING check in: where should we be 2-3 months out We are inching closer to those fall races and entering our peak training for many athletes. We…
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66. Cutback Weeks: Are You Missing a Critical Part of Training?
Down Week: If you haven’t had one in awhile you should take one We are amidst peak training for fall races. We don’t want to be feeling completely exhausted…
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65. Will Running a Marathon Make You Faster?
Why it could be good to wait to do 26.2 The marathon is all about aerobic strength. Holding a moderate pace over a long distance. We aren’t worn down so much…
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64. Peak Heat: Why The Heat Will Make You Faster This Fall
Peak Heat: Why it will make you faster this fall You made it to August! This is the hottest time of the year, but the good news is the temps will begin to drop…
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63. Maintaining Motivation Despite Fall Race Cancellations
What to do instead of your fall race: how to stay motivated with no races this fall Many athletes have had their spring and fall marathons or goal races…
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62. Summer Racing: 4th of July Race Tips
The 4th of July is coming up! This is a very popular time to run a 5k or 10k race in the USA. However, this is also typically a very hot time of year for a…
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61. 20 mile long runs: are they necessary?
Why you may not need to run 20 miles? The most common questions that we hear when athletes start a marathon training cycle: “How many 20 mile runs will I do…
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60. Stopping On Long Runs
Stopping your watch on long runs Stopping your watch on the long runs! We have all been there on a group run. A great water stop is set up, we pause our watch…
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59. Racing Your Best 5k Or Virtual 5k
Racing your best 5k There are many 5k races this time of year!!This can be a great opportunity for a time trial to see what type of fitness you are in. We want…
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58. Qualifying & Registering For The Boston Marathon: How It Works
Qualifying & Registering For Boston Facts Qualifying for the Boston Marathon is an amazing accomplishment. This is the time of year when many runners become…
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57. All About Virtual Races: What is the point?
58. How & Why Virtual Races are the answer This has been a CRAZY time of year with races being cancelled. We were scheduled to do a podcast today on the…
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56. Fueling: How to start your fueling practice for race day
Practicing marathon fueling now! We all know fueling is an important part of running. Many people find this topic confusing, and we are going to shed some…
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55. What Training For Fall Races Should Look Like 5 Months Out
What your training should look like 5-6 months out from a marathon or half marathon & how to begin We are now less than 5 months out from fall marathons like…
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54. Immune Suppression & Overtraining
61. Immune Suppression & Training We are in the middle of a world-wide health pandemic. We all know that exercise has positive health effects. Exercise can…
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53. How The Heat Will Impact Training This Summer
How the Heat Will Start to impact your training It feels so great to be running outside again. So many runners are enjoying the nice warm weather, but soon it…
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52. Building Your Mileage: How & When
Weekly mileage can be a fun way to track training volume. This is often one of the first questions you are asked when starting a new training program or…
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51. When to start training for fall races & tips for avoiding burn out
When to start training for Fall Marathons/Races Spring is here! We are approaching the summer months, and runners are getting excited for their fall races…
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50. Transition Back To Outdoor Running From The Treadmill
Transitioning Back to Outdoor Running Spring is here! It is that amazing time of year where the days are getting longer, the sun is starting to shine, the snow…
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49. Uncertain Times: How To Stay Motivated When Things Change
Spring is here! But this year is weird! Almost all races have been cancelled. Your training plans may have been derailed. Many parents have had to switch their…
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48. Race Cancelled COVID-19: What To Do Now!
Special Podcast: "What to do when races get cancelled due to COVID-19" Typically March is an exciting time of year, it usually marks the start of spring…
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47. Easy Running: How it Makes You Faster
Easy running is difficult for many runners to grasp the concept. Running 2-3 min per mile slower than your 5k race pace can feel very ‘slow’ for runners. It is…
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46. How To Gain Endurance
Running is an aerobic sport. Any athlete who has a previous background in aerobic sports like distance swimming, biking, or soccer will have an aerobic base…
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45. Managing Training Stress Variables: Long Runs, Mileage, & Workouts
45. Stress variables in training & how to balance them When developing a plan it is important to keep in mind the variables of stress at play. There is an art…
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44. Progressive Overload: The Best Way To Improve
We are often asked what workouts are best or what is the best weekly mileage to run. The answer is simple: use the progressive overload principle! What is…
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43. Cutback Weeks: Why You Need Them & What They Are
We often focus on the workouts & the stress of training. Athletes often want to do more and work harder, but did you know it’s a two sided equation? Stress +…
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42. Training Differences From 5k to Marathon
How is training for the 5k and a marathon any different besides running more miles? Did you know that elite 5k runners still train 70+ miles per week? That is…
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41. How To Stay Motivated: 20+ Years Of Running
Motivation can be pretty low this time of year if you live in the North. Motivation is a myth! Most athletes do not feel motivated to run regularly. We discuss…
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40. Legal Doping? Tips To Get Your Fastest Times- NONE of these are training related!
We talk a lot about training & workouts to get faster but what are the other things you can do to get the fastest times out of your body? We take a deep dive…
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39. Boston Marathon Training Kick Off: How To Train For Your Best Boston Marathon
The Boston marathon is 3 months away! Runners work so hard to get to this point in their running careers. We are sharing tips for crushing the hills and…
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38. Injury Prevention For Runners
INJURY PREVENTION TIPS 🔥 • Injuries are a runner’s worst nightmare! We are chatting today about ways to avoid injuries from happening & what you should do if…
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37. Self Belief: Confidence & Mental Training
We have all had bad races or bad workouts. How can we rebound from them with confidence? We must change our perspective when you are feeling negative or stuck…
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36. Best Workouts To Get Faster: Tempo Runs
Today we go into detail on tempo runs. Learn why these are the cornerstone workout for all distance runners. We take a deep dive into the differences between…
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35. How Fast Can You Become? What are your limits? Law of Diminishing Returns Explained
Coach Skelly and Victoria chat about the law of diminishing returns. Does it become harder to get faster as you get faster? Can anyone qualify for the Boston…