Latest Runningmotivation Podcast Episodes
MFR: 160: Tempo Runs
Mojo For Running Podcast - June 01, 2024 17:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsThe 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 conditi...
MFR 159: Ways to Enhance Tack Workouts
Mojo For Running Podcast - May 18, 2024 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsWhile a good track workout is always effective, adding other activities between sets will magnify the impact and make the workout more fun. As a result, you're likely to be more consistent with speed training and benefit more from it. These activities will improve coordination, increase balanc...
MFR 159: Six Activities to Add to Track Workouts to Make Them More Fun and More Effective
Mojo For Running Podcast - May 18, 2024 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsWhile 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 incorp...
MFR 158: Repeats and Intervals
Mojo For Running Podcast - April 26, 2024 17:37 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsLearn 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...
MFR 157: Speedwork, how and when to incorporate speedwork into your running training
Mojo For Running Podcast - April 10, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsTo 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 maximiz...
MFR 156: The Challenge of Holiday Running and the Mojo for Running December Challenge
Mojo For Running Podcast - December 03, 2021 02:48 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsThe 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. ...
MFR 155: Head to Toe, a Close Look at How to Move and Where to Look When You Run
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 21, 2021 20:19 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsLet'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 sti...
MFR 154: Fun With Fartlek Training
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 09, 2021 02:37 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsAny 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 av...
MFR 153: How to Choose the Best Training Plan for Any Race
Mojo For Running Podcast - September 23, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsRunning 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 ...
How to Choose the Best Training Plan for Any Race
Mojo For Running Podcast - September 23, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsRunning 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 ...
MFR 152: How to Taper for Goal Races, and What it Can Do for Race Performance
Mojo For Running Podcast - September 09, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsThe 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 a...
How to Structure Your Running Training When You're Self Coached
Mojo For Running Podcast - August 27, 2021 02:13 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsOne 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 tr...
MFR 151: How to Structure Your Running Training When You're Self Coached
Mojo For Running Podcast - August 27, 2021 02:13 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsOne 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 tr...
MFR 150: Treadmill Running and the Indoor Training Mindset
Mojo For Running Podcast - August 13, 2021 19:53 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsWhat 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...
MFR 149: Rebounder for Running Training
Mojo For Running Podcast - July 30, 2021 15:06 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsI'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, makin...
MFR 148: Upcoming Topics, the Problem of Locked 'Public' Tracks, and a Promise
Mojo For Running Podcast - July 19, 2021 20:03 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsCoach 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 t...
MFR 147: How to Run Trails
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 27, 2020 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsRunning 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 wo...
MFR 146: Six Reasons Every Runner Should Run Off Road
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 16, 2020 01:40 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsOn 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 t...
MFR 146: Six Reason Every Runner Should Run Off Road
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 16, 2020 01:40 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsOn 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 t...
MFR #145: How to Make Your Easy Runs Work for You
Mojo For Running Podcast - July 03, 2020 17:31 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsOptimize 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,...
MFR 144: Running During a Pandemic
Mojo For Running Podcast - May 14, 2020 22:58 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsWow! 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, for...
MFR 143: Sensible Running Resolutions for 2020
Mojo For Running Podcast - January 01, 2020 04:03 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsIt’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 ...
MFR 142: The Challenge of the Holidays and a Challenge for the Holidays
Mojo For Running Podcast - December 01, 2019 04:19 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsNo 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 ...
MFR 141: Returning from a Break
Mojo For Running Podcast - November 26, 2019 05:04 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsWhether 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 med...
MFR 140: My Thoughts on the ‘Brittany’ Movie, Running Goals, and Your First Marathon
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 23, 2019 20:43 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsRecently, 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,...
MFR 139: The Mental Side of Running
Mojo For Running Podcast - October 09, 2019 21:33 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsEven 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 nec...
MFR 138: Base Miles
Mojo For Running Podcast - September 19, 2019 02:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsHow 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...
MFR 137: Boston
Mojo For Running Podcast - June 13, 2019 13:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsBoston. 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 ...
MFR 136: Three Reasons to do a Plank Every Day
Mojo For Running Podcast - May 26, 2019 03:14 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsIf 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 perform...
MFR 135: How to Crush Your Goal Race With Microcycles
Mojo For Running Podcast - April 28, 2019 02:50 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 452 ratingsI 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 c...
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