Welcome to Episode #71 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. Our interview this week is with Terry Laughlin, Chief Optimist Officer at Total Immersion. Terry is coming back on the show to talk about his latest blog article "What's your best stroke rate? - How I found mine. And why it's still evolving." We'll talk about the article and you'll be sure to pick up insightful information about how to not only find your ideal stroke rate, but also learn how to reduce your SPL (to monitor stroke length). Most of the interview is about how to help you swim faster with less effort, but we also talk about some of the swim clinics they offer in great locations around the world.
We're your hosts Rich Soares and Bill Plock and we're glad you are back with us for another weekend endurance in the Mile High city. Khem has the week off because she is moving. As Bill likes to say, Terry is the John Wooden of Swimming. Speaking of Bill, how's it going my friend?
Let's do some updates:
Alright, let's get into our interview with Terri Laughlin. If you are listening to this and you are at your laptop or sitting on the couch with your phone, go to http://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/ from the main page go to Community and then Blog. Click on the article "What's your best stroke rate?" and follow along. If you are riding your bike, running or driving, don't go to the website now - go read it later.
I also recommend you read the "Green Zone" chart either while listening to the interview or later. I'll put a link in the show notes and on the website on the Resources page. It's in the swimming section and has a ***NEW*** next to it. It is a link to the Total Immersion Store and the chart is a $0 charge item. You check out and you'll get the PDF emailed to you the instance you place your no charge order.
I would love to go to one of those clinics. The self-coaching courses are really good, so I can only imagine how good the clinics would be and how cool I would be to do it in Mauritius or Penticton. Check out the Clinics on the TI website. While you are there, go check out the other Free Items and the non-free items in the Store. Also, check out the other blog articles while you are there.
Received my tempo trainer in the mail in the afternoon after my interview with Terry. I'm looking forward to giving it a crack this weekend at the pool. It has a number of modes.
I can honestly say that TI is really working for me. I'm not a fast swimmer and because my legs sink, I have historically worked really hard when I swim. I have been working at TI drills and focuses for a couple of months now and I really do hit that sweet spot where swimming becomes pretty effortless, at least relative to my historical experience. My struggle is every time I start falling behind or really pushing in a group swim, I start to lose my balance in the water and my legs sink and I stop bilateral breathing.
So I keep working at it.
Let's talk briefly about upcoming interviews.
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Welcome to Episode #70 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals.
Our interview this week is with dr. Jason Karp, author of "run your fat off" and half a dozen other publications including the inner runner. In addition to writing books Dr. Karp is also the owner of Run-fit.com, he coaches, has a certification program called revolution running and does seminars and presentations and has coaching clinics and coaching services.
We're your hosts Rich Soares and Khem Suthiwan and we're glad you are back with us for another weekend endurance in the Mile High city. Bill has the week off because he is at Sea Otter. More on that in a bit.
Before we go there, let's catch up with coach Khem Suthiwan. How's it going Khem?
Let's do some updates:
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Alright, let's get into our interview with Dr. Jason Karp. As I mentioned at the beginning of the intro the focus of today's interview is going to be on his new book run your fat off. This book is really kind of a look or examination at the equation of how diet and running affect our overall weight management. We get into a number of other topics including injury prevention, we examine what it means to be "metabolically efficient", and a bunch of other topics.
Probably the question I was most concerned about asking was metabolic efficiency. It turned out that my favorite part of the interview was the discussion around the definition of metabolic efficiency.
How much ATP can be produced for a given amount of substrate (fuel). Training of the muscles to be metabolically efficient by increasing mitochondrial density.
Let's talk briefly about upcoming interviews.
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Regardless of your athletic background, anyone and everyone who has a curiosity to learn and grow in endurance sports is welcome and included in the Mile High Endurance Tribe!
We cover a wide variety of topics and a variety of disciplines from week to week. We hope that every week is interesting, and I'm super excited about this week's guest.
Have a great week everybody! Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!
Welcome to Episode #69 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Our interview this week is with Scott Thigpen, author of "Trail Magic - And the Art of Soft Pedaling". Scott completed Ride the Divide in 2014. He tells the story of his experience with in the book and tells his story to Khem and I in "the interview" this week.
Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. We're your hosts Rich Soares and Khem Suthiwan and we're glad you are back with us for another weekend endurance in the Mile High city.
Let us know you like the content by following the Podcast on Facebook at MileHighEndurance and Twitter at @milehighpodcast.
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Check out the Mile High Endurance website and milehighendurance.com for more on upcoming interviews, past interviews, resources, blog, about the show, and discounts.
Let's talk briefly about next week's interview with Dr. Jason Karp, author of the Run Your Fat Off and The Inner Runner.
Thanks again for joining us this week. If this was your first time listening, we hope you enjoyed and will join us next week. Don't forget to join us next week!
Have a great week everybody! Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!
Welcome to Episode #68 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Our interview this week is with Barry Siff, President of the Board for USAT, ITU Executive Board member with us this weekend. We will be catching up where we left off which was just prior to the Rio games. We'll also be talking about USAT strategy, the ITU/Ironman Cooperative announced in January and about USAT coaching programs and resources. Be sure to check out more at TeamUSA.org/USA-Triathlon
Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. We're your hosts Rich Soares, Bill Plock and Khem Suthiwan and we're glad you are back with us for another weekend endurance in the Mile High city.
Let us know you like the content by following the Podcast on Facebook at MileHighEndurance and Twitter at @milehighpodcast.
Check out the Mile High Endurance website and milehighendurance.com for more on upcoming interviews, past interviews, resources, blog, about the show, and discounts.
Let's talk briefly about upcoming interviews.
Thanks for again for joining us this week. If this was your first time listening, we hope you enjoyed and will join us next week. Don't forget to join us next week!
Have a great week everybody! Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!
Welcome to Episode #67 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Our show guests are Phil Whitehead (race director of The Lakesman Tri in Cumbria UK) and retired pro and active coach Mary Beth Ellis (aka the Honey Badger) on the show with us this weekend.
Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. We're your hosts Rich Soares, Bill Plock and Khem Suthiwan and we're glad you are back with us for another weekend endurance in the Mile High city.
Let us know you like the content by following the Podcast on Facebook at MileHighEndurance and Twitter at @milehighpodcast.
Be sure to check out The Lakesman Tri at www.thelakesman.com
Check out the Mile High Endurance website and milehighendurance.com for more on upcoming interviews, past interviews, resources, blog, about the show, and discounts.
Let's talk briefly about upcoming interviews.
Thanks for again for joining us this week. If this was your first time listening, we hope you enjoyed and will join us next week. Don't forget to join us next week!