Summary: <br> Some lessons in running span generations.<br> This week we have another 2-part special with one of America’s best from the 1980s and a current rising star.<br> Both will share the secret sauce to their success. More importantly, <br> during the podcast you’ll get to hear and connect how their approaches <br> to training, while different, share the same common threads. Lessons you<br> can apply to your training.<br> Benji Durden<br> Our<br> first part features Benji Durden, one of the country’s best marathoners<br> in the early 1980′s. A largely self-coached athlete who later coached <br> former <a href="http://runnersconnect.net/running-interviews/kim-jones/">RunnersConnect interview guest Kim Jones</a>, Benji now runs a race timing company in Boulder, CO.<br> Like many of his running contemporaries, Benji ran a great deal of <br> races, even in the middle of marathon build-ups and often only 2 days <br> after his longest run of the week.<br> Some of the key points included:<br> <br> Benji’s training and how he blended frequent racing into marathon training<br> The potential benefits of frequent racing and why every race doesn’t need to be test of one’s full potential<br> The nuts and bolts of timing races (a nice insight to how you get timed for all those races you run)<br> <br> Christo Landry<br> In<br> our second part we welcome Christo Landry, who has been on a tear <br> through the U.S. road racing circuit this year, winning 3 U.S. titles at<br> different distances.<br> Some of the key points included:<br> <br> How Christo maintains top racing fitness for a long period of time and over different distances<br> Some key workouts that form the basis of his training program<br> Christo’s plan to stretch his success at shorter races into a good marathon this coming fall<br> <br> This is a great podcast that highlights and compares the underlying <br> training philosophy of every elite runners training schedule while <br> contrasting the subtle personalization that makes it work for them.<br> Hopefully, this will help you understand and establish the basics of <br> training in your own schedule while creating the tweaks that make it <br> work for you.<br>
