Episode #86: What Does the Race Require? (Part 1)
We start this episode with a discussion on the 2020 Olympic Trials including the newly announced venue for them and LetsRun.com's way-too-early Trials podium pics which you can see here: Men's predictions from LetsRun.com: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/07/two-years-tokyo-tell-u-s-mens-distance-runners-will-2020-olympic-team/ Women's predictions from LetsRun.com: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/08/cancel-trials-u-s-womens-distance-runners-will-going-2020-olympics/ Then, at 31:25 into the episode, we begin a series on "What does the race require?" In this series, we break down how training for various race distances from 800m to the marathon are similar and unique.