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Mojo For Running Podcast
by debbie voiles
Mojo for Running Coach Debbie Voiles presents training principles and running news. From beginners to marathoners, all runners will learn how to make wise training decisions. Topics include training schedule, base building, tapering, cross training, speed work, stretching, nutrition, drills, and much more. Learn how to train smart to achieve your goals.
Episodes
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MFR 164: Hill Racing Strategy
With the right hill racing strategy and the finesse learned in the last episode, you'll be ready to crush any hill in any race, knowing that you have an edge over the other runners, knowing that your performance will be better because of your knowledge of hill strategy and your execution. It's…
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MFR 163: Hill Training as Speedwork and Hill-Running Technique
For most people, running hills is an element of running to tolerate, but to the wise, properly trained and knowledgeable runner, hills provide an avenue to faster running and faster races. Between improved conditioning from using hill training as speedwork and improved hill-running technique, any...
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MFR 162: HIIT Training for Speedwork
High intensity interval training has been a recognized training modality for a dozen years, now, and over that time its effectiveness and versatility have proven it to be worthy of inclusion in the training regimen of any serious runner, but more than that, we now know that high intensity…
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MFR 161: Progression Runs
Progression runs do wonders for speed, endurance, and fitness, preparing the runner to run faster farther into their race, hopefully, ideally throughout their race, but also offering a wide range of fitness benefits. Simply put, a progression run starts slower and gets continually faster…
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MFR: 160: Tempo Runs
The traditional tempo run is entirely different from the typical track type of speedwork, a workout that consists of continuous running at a given pace. Tempo runs are longer and less intense becauase of the longer distance, but they have their own valuable benefits that provide critical...
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MFR 159: Six Activities to Add to Track Workouts to Make Them More Fun and More Effective
While a good track workout is always effective, adding other activities between sets will magnify the impact and make speed workouts more fun. As a result, you're likely to be more consistent with speed training and benefit more from it. In this episode, you'll discover how to gradually…
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MFR 158: Repeats and Intervals
Learn all about classic track workouts and the variety of ways they can be structured to meet any runner's training goals. All speedwork can be broken down into two categories, short speedwork, usually done on a track, a combination of repeats, intervals, and sets, and longer speedwork done on...
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MFR 157: Speedwork, how and when to incorporate speedwork into your running training
To get faster or stronger or even to build endurance, every experienced runner needs speedwork. This is the first of a series of episodes on speedwork for runners, what is a speedworkout, who should do it, how to add it to your running schedule, how often, types of speed training, how to maximize...
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MFR 156: The Challenge of Holiday Running and the Mojo for Running December Challenge
The month of December tests our running training more than any other as holiday events too often steal running hours. Our already hectic schedules get still busier, increasing stress levels, meaning we need run therapy more than ever, but ironically, that's the last thing on many people's mind.…
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MFR 155: Head to Toe, a Close Look at How to Move and Where to Look When You Run
Let's go back to the basics of how to move when you run, head to toe, from where to look, to the nuances of effective arm technique, what not to do and physical cues to help with practicing good running form. While everyone's form will be unique, based on their body, minor adjustments will still...
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MFR 154: Fun With Fartlek Training
Any runner or group of runners, of any level, can make up a fartlek workout on the fly, or pull out one of the traditional, time-tested fartlek workouts. Fartleks are especially good for injecting a bit of speed work into an easy or long-ish run during the basebuilding phase when it's best to…
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MFR 153: How to Choose the Best Training Plan for Any Race
Running success hinges on preparation. Crossing the finish line is the easy part, a celebration, the apex of all the training that prepared you to be there, the celebration of a well executed running training plan. The longer you run, the more races you train for, the more you'll appreciate the...
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MFR 152: How to Taper for Goal Races, and What it Can Do for Race Performance
The almighty taper is a thing of beauty. Most experienced runners, and certainly any runner who's trained with a coach, knows about this masterpiece of training theory. No amount or type of training, no training regimen, however well executed, will fulfill its potential unless it ends with the...
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MFR 151: How to Structure Your Running Training When You're Self Coached
One of the main attractions of running is the sheer simplicity of it. Running requires one thing, a pair of shoes - well, two things. That simplicity is a thing of beauty, but to take it to any level beyond basic fitness, or just to make it more interesting, knowing and applying some basic…
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MFR 150: Treadmill Running and the Indoor Training Mindset
What a treadmill lacks in the way of the scenery and fresh air of an outdoor run, it makes up for in convenience and other benefits. Yes, there are reasons why anyone might do well to train on a treadmill at times. From offering a softer surface than any street to providing a safe option when...
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MFR 149: Rebounder for Running Training
I'm always looking for new ways to improve my fitness and enhance my running training, and one of my favorite is the mini trampoline, also known as a rebounder, which I use for 'rebounder running,' running in place on the rebounder. It is an affordable, relatively small piece of equipment, making...
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MFR 148: Upcoming Topics, the Problem of Locked 'Public' Tracks, and a Promise
Coach Deb Voiles announces topics for many upcoming episodes and shares the topics for the next dozen, expanding on an episode that will highlight the national problem of runners being locked out of 'public' school tracks. She asks listeners to weigh in about the situation where they live. Deb…
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MFR 147: How to Run Trails
Running trails requires different technical running skills, a different outlook, and different equipment, but it is so beyond worth it, and if that's not enough, your on-road running will greatly improve. Why? Because running on off road trails demands more work and more finesse. Your muscles…
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MFR 146: Six Reasons Every Runner Should Run Off Road
On and off-road miles are not equal. Off-road miles make you a better runner, make you more fit, and make you more sane. A mile in the woods holds greater value than any on-road mile. Running in the wild, produces startling results. It improves strength by engaging more muscles, especially the...
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MFR #145: How to Make Your Easy Runs Work for You
Optimize your running training by properly applying the hard easy principle. You must keep your easy runs easy and your hard runs hard to get the desired training effect. Most runners are driven to check their watch, worried about their pace being too slow, even when it's an 'easy' run day, and...
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MFR 144: Running During a Pandemic
Wow! I would never have guessed I'd be doing a podcast on this topic, but here I am. This is not normal, nowhere near normal, not by ay stretch of the imagination. We are all living through this, one day at a time, finding our way, figuring out how to cope. We have no other choice; however,...
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MFR 143: Sensible Running Resolutions for 2020
It's that time again, time to carefully consider what we should do in 2020 to take our running and our lives to the next level. Since the options for running resolutions are almost infinite, I thought I'd provide some insight into the advantages of some types of resolutions and the pitfalls of...
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MFR 142: The Challenge of the Holidays and a Challenge for the Holidays
No time of the year challenges your commitment to running more than the holidays, the weeks between Thanksgiving and the new year. For that reason, I thought I'd share some my perspective in the hope that it will motivate you to stay the course. You, of course, may not run 'all the miles,' and I...
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MFR 141: Returning from a Break
Whether you are new to running or you've been running for years, there will be times when you stop running weeks or even months. Matybe you have a health issue, and maybe you had an injury. My runners miss long periods, sometimes, maybe due to caring for elderly parents, maybe due their own…
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MFR 140: My Thoughts on the 'Brittany' Movie, Running Goals, and Your First Marathon
Recently, Hubby and I actually went to a theater, which we hadn't done in over a year, to see the movie, Brittany Runs a Marathon. In this episode I discuss that film, and, knowing that it will inspire many, that leads to the topic of running goals and running your first marathon. No worries, I...
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MFR 139: The Mental Side of Running
Even before you were a runner, you had probably heard the oft repeated line, "Running is 90% mental." I don't think I've ever heard any long-time runner argue against this, because you realize pretty quickly that this is true. iF your mind wills it, if your heart is in it, if you have the…
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MFR 138: Base Miles
How is your running base coming along? This is one of the most critical considerations for any runner's success, but in my experience, the great majority of recreational runners ignore it. With this episode of the Mojo for Running Podcast, I hope to raise awareness to motivate every listener to...
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MFR 137: Boston
Boston. That word inspires emotion in every runner, as it does with me. I've always been a word person, which is just part of the reason I was an English teacher for 15 years. I think about words. Those six letters move me. They have for years but much more, now. Six letters that, to me, carry a...
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MFR 136: Three Reasons to do a Plank Every Day
If you just do one exercise for your core, this should be it. Planks have many benefits for runners. In this episode, I explain the various ways of modifying the standard plank for even more benefit. Adding this exercise to your cross training, will, I guarantee, impact your running performance...
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MFR 135: How to Crush Your Goal Race With Microcycles
I know very few runners not focused on getting better, improving their running performance, scoring PR's, but sometimes there are ways to improve, even quite basic ways, that never become common knowledge to non-elite runners, certainly not common knowledge to people who aren't working with a...
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MFR 134: How to Optimize Performance with Periodization
Most runners run because they know it keeps them fit and because it's a great hobby. For some, it's mainly the camaraderie. Others are attracted by the endorphin rush, but virtually all runners also want to get faster. Is that you? Even if you only do the occasional race, you may want to keep...
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MFR 133: From Brutal to Boston
The topic of Episode #132 was dreadful runs. This is a followup that, I hope, will always help you put those runs in perspective. But more than that, it shows you what can happen later in your running career. No matter where you are, now, in your running journey. You can still set lofty running…
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MFR 132: Explaining Dreadful Runs
If you have never had a bad run, then you haven't been running long. Truth. Every runner of every level has bad runs now and then. Now if you have them often, that is, of course, a problem, but as a rule, if you haven't had a lousy run in a while, I'd say you […] The post MFR 132: Explaining...
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MFR 131: Gifts for Runners
One of the things I appreciate most about running is that it's such a simple sport. You can do it anywhere, and the only equipment you need is a pair of shoes. That said, everybody loves running gear and most of the runners I know love gadgets as well. So, since it's the holiday season, […] The...
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MFR 130: Running Through the Holidays
Of the 52 weeks in every year, most runners find the ones between Thanksgiving and New Year's to be the most challenging from a running perspective. There are just too many things competing for your precious time. I get that. In this episode, I help you with putting it in perspective and managing...
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MFR 129: Electrolytes Part 2
Not all electrolyte replacement products are the same, not even close. Jen has been running a while, but she hasn't ever trained for marathons. Now, she's often running for two hours, and she's finding that she really starts to feel fatigued. She assumes it's that she's not eating correctly or…
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MFR 128: Electrolytes
Have you ever had a dreadful race but were unable to put your finger on the cause? Of course, there could be many causes, but one of the first places to look is at your electrolyte replacement regimen. What? You don't have an electrolyte plan? Well, that's okay if you're not running farther than…
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MFR 127: Training Fundamentals
Have you ever been in the predicament of not knowing how to compensate for a day when you ended up missing the training on your schedule? Have you ever planned our own training schedule but wondered if the way you were doing it was optimal? Whether a new runner or a runner with years of […] The...
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MFR 126: Running Documentary The Human Race and Much More
Yes, I'm back. I know, you probably thought you'd never hear another episode, but surprise, I've just finished three, and I have plans for at least another nine. After the main topic of this podcast, the documentary film I helped to make, I'll explain more about the future of this podcast. It's…
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MFR 125: When You Lose Your Mojo
At any given time, a percentage of runners will be suffering from a not so uncommon running malady, loss of their running mojo, the state of being without motivation, of feeling more like sitting than running. This is serious but not uncommon. I'll tell you this: As a longtime coach, I've seen…
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MFR 124: Half Marathon Magic
Unless you live in a very remote area, you likely can choose from several half marathon options every month because with every passing year, we see more halves, and that's not surprising because they are, I think the ideal race distance. In this episode, I explain all the reasons why this race...
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MFR 123: Thoughts on Knee Surgery
This episode is about knee surgery for runners, the considerations, topics for thought. It will not tell you when you need surgery. I'm not a doctor. It doesn't bash knee surgery, not at all, but it is food for thought, things to consider, if knee surgery may be in your future, or if a medical…
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MFR 122: Run Off Road and On the Trails
If you haven't run off road – or on trails – I hope this episode will convince you to give it a try. I explain the many of excellent reasons why you should run trails, and I explain how to get started. I've said it many times, I live an hour from Disney World and […] The post MFR 122: Run Off…
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MFR 121: Three Key changes to Help You Run Faster
Most runners want to get faster. Not everyone can afford to hire a coach, and not everyone has time to train for a marathon, but most runners hope to set new PR's on a regular basis. This is absolutely possible, but you need to know how to direct your time. Most people have full-time jobs. […]…
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MFR 120: One Foot at a Time
It's the little things that often have the greatest impact, and so it is with the concept of focusing on the fact that when running, you are always, 100 percent of the time, putting the full weight of your body on just one foot or the other. Oddly, you don't hear much about this, and […] The post...
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MFR 119: Five Pillars of Intelligent Running
We all think of ourselves as intelligent runners, of course, but even the most experienced, veteran runners sometimes lose sight of the wise and effective path to their goals. Why does this happen? I think because we get caught up in the here and now, the 'today,' instead of keeping our eyes on…
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MFR 118: What to Wear for Cold-Weather Running
If, where you live, it gets cold in the winter – and I mean cold – then you're probably just coming into the time of year when you need to make accommodations to be able to run outside, safely and comfortably. No matter how cold it gets, in most cases, if you're healthy, you can […] The post MFR...
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MFR 117: Accountability Hacks for Runners
No matter who you are and no matter how long you've been running, you have days when you need a reason to get out and run, a reason beyond the fact that you are a runner, you believe in running, you love to run and you know you shoud run. You can know and understand […] The post MFR 117:...
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MFR 116: How to Hydrate for Long Runs
If you're running a 5k on up to a half marathon, hydration matters, but it's not terribly tricky. The focus should be on making sure you consume enough fluids to prevent dehydration,but if you're out there for several hours – or a lot more – you need to be even more concerned about avoiding over...
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MFR 115: Big Cottonwood Marathon Race Weekend
The Revel Big Cottonwood race weekend was an adventure I won't soon forget. Well, who am I kidding, I'll never forget it. Every destination race is unique, and this one, especially so, because it was mostly downhill and because it was the most beautiful race course I've had the good fortune to…
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Mojo for Running Coach Debbie Voiles presents training principles and running news. From beginners to marathoners, all runners will learn how to make wise training decisions. Topics include training schedule, base building, tapering, cross training, speed work, stretching, nutrition, drills, and much more. Learn how to train smart to achieve your goals.
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