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Here are a few of the discussion points in this episode:

Focus on your protein --- Lauren Antonnuchi , High Performance Nutrition for Masters athletes

Carbs are good! Fuel your training --- Renee McGregor, Fuel for Thought

Enclothed Cognition is a real thing! --- Kara Goucher, Strong

You can have running success as a warrior or a worrier --- Believe Journal, Lauren Fleshmann and Roisin McGettigan-Dumas

Animals and care for animals can teach you some wonderful things --- Running with Sherman, Chris McDougall and Finding Gobi, Dion Leonard

Running form drills are worthwhile – Born to Run2 , Chris McDougall and Eric Orton and Built to Run , Matt Silver

A good base build can be loads of easy volume with a few strides – Run Elite , Andrew Snow

Alberto Salazaar deserved his ban and Nike is a toxic company --- Win at All Costs, Matt Hart and Longest Run, Kara Goucher and Mary Pilon

Doing hard things can't be sustained with a macho, ‘can't hurt me’ attitude. Instead you need a realistic, responsive approach, that listens to your body but transcends discomfort ---- Do Hard Things , Steve Magness

Similarly, great athletes are Ultra Realists ---- Comeback Quotient, Matt Fitzgerald

Flow State , it’s a real thing --- Running Home , Katie Arnold

Inspiration and Motivation can come in many different forms ….. you just have to stay open to the messages …..all kinds of books and people

You can get improved performance by being smarter rather than working harder --- How to Run the Perfect Race, Matt Fitzgerald

No matter what the performance goals, feed and sustain the joy of running --- 26.2 miles to Happiness , Paul Tomkinson and The Happy Runner , David and Megan Roche

There is no precise training prescription but there are some general rules --- many training books

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Still Running After All These Tears is the newest book by Lisa Jackson, and it perfectly aligns with the realization I shared at the beginning of the episode. After years of sub-3 hour marathon attempts ending in disappointment, Liz took Alan's advice to "hold (her) goal lightly." Instead of focusing on the clock, her mantra became "run for those who can't." She explains in the intro story how she dedicated her miles to her late sister-in-law who passed away from breast cancer, a new friend recovering from breast cancer who waited for her at the finish line, and her husband who was sidelined with a bad back. Lisa’s book explores a similar shift, showing how running can be a survival manual for the broken-hearted rather than just a pursuit of performance.

The book covers:

• Navigating devastating grief and multiple bereavements
• Coping with debilitating injury and losing your running mojo
• Training for a 109th marathon in a loved one's honour
• Transitioning from heartache to hope
• The redemptive power of running and its life-enhancing lessons
• Thriving in the face of trauma
• What makes a good death
• How to lead a joyous, meaningful life

Lisa Jackson is a running writer and Runner’s World columnist, and the author of the best-selling books Your Pace or Mine?, Running Made Easy and Still Running After All These Tears: A Runner’s Journey Through Grief. A veteran of over 100 marathons and two 56-mile ultras, Lisa is Women’s Running’s hypnotherapy expert, and her writing has been published in Psychologies, Red, Prima, Top Santé, Healthy, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The Independent and Mumsnet. She is also a keen traveller and, having backpacked through well over 100 countries, wrote two travelogues - Travel Seekness and Travel Agents - with her husband Graham Williams.

Lisa has presented talks at numerous events including The National Running Show and RunFestRun and is a frequent guest on running podcasts and the radio. She was one of 40 people featured in The Sunday Times’s Alternative Rich List aka The Enriched List, as someone whose life has been ‘rich in experience, rich in spirit, rich in life’. Lisa was nominated in the 2020 Women of the Year Awards, and in the 2018 Women’s Running Awards in the ‘Influencer of the Year’ category. She is an Ambassador for the multi-award-winning fitnesswear brand Flanci Activewear.

If you’re interested in getting a copy of this book, it can be found on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0aCZqOAS

You can follow Lisa's writing in Runner's World and Women's Running, and find more ab

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Advanced Marathoning (4th ed.) is the newest version of the training book Alan and I have been using for our sub-3 hour marathon attempts. This version, like the last one, is divided into 2 parts:

• Training components
• Elements of training
• Nutrition and hydration
• Balancing training and recovery
• Supplementary training

Advanced marathoning for masters runners (The older (and wiser) marathoner – in the 3rd ed.)

• Tapering for peak marathon performance
• Race day strategy
• Training program
• Following the schedules
• Marathon training up to 55 miles (89 km) per week
• Marathon training on 55 to 70 miles (89 to 113 km) per week
• Marathon training on 70 to 85 miles (113-137 km) per week
• Marathon training on more than 85 miles (137 km) per week
• Multiple marathoning

Pete Pfitzinger was the top American finisher in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic marathons. With a personal best of 2:11:43, Pfitzinger is a two-time winner of the San Francisco Marathon and placed third in the 1987 New York City Marathon. He was ranked the top American marathoner in 1984 by Track & Field News, and he is a member of the Road Runners Club of America’s Hall of Fame. He was a senior writer for Running Times from 1997 to 2007, in which his popular column, “The Pfitzinger Lab Report,” appeared. Pete has over 30 years of experience coaching marathon runners to achieve their goals. He is also the coauthor of Faster Road Racing.

Scott is a contributing writer for Runner’s World and Outside. He is the author or coauthor of several well-known running books, including Personal Best Running, Running Is My Therapy, and the New York Times bestsellers Meb for Mortals and 26 Marathons. Scott has run more than 130,000 miles since starting as a teen. He lives in North Yarmouth, Maine. He has also written about running for Slate, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and others.

If you’re interested in this book, the authors would like if you could first check your local book shop, specialty running shop, or bookshop.org (if you’re in the US). You can also find it online if all else fails.

They mentioned their Advanced Marathoning and Faster Road Racing FB page where you can follow them, and Scott Douglas is on Substack (where his profile photo is a photo of a dog with the Advanced Marathoning book).

The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063961968481

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