Welcome
Welcome to Episode #179 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. You are listening to your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance goals. We are your hosts coach Rich Soares and 303 Chief Bill Plock. Thanks for joining us for another week of endurance interviews and discussion.
This week we have running coach Mikael Eriksson of Scientific Triathlon and "That Triathlon Podcast" show joining us to talk further about training zones.
As you'll recall, last week we had Andrew Simmons of Lifelong Endurance is joining us to talk about running coaching tips. If you missed it, you can of course hear it on episode #178.
Announcements:
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Interview Introduction
Mikael Ericsson is the head coach at Scientific Triathlon and host of the That Triathlon Podcast. Studied engineering in Helsinki, Finland. Found his way to Lisbon, Portugal to establish himself as a coach. Mikael takes a science based approach to his coaching and it shows up in his podcast based on the topics and guests he brings on. I recently heard a pretty good interview he had with the folks and CU Sports Medicine and Performance on the Nike Vaperfly and studying the true efficiency gains from the shoes.
Sponsor - Halo Neuroscience
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Post Interview Discussion
Video of the Week:
2019 WTS Yokohama Women's Highlights
Endurance Trivia:
"What's New in the 303":
Upcoming Interviews:
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