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Episode 30.
Start Your New Year Running!

This is an episode for anyone and everyone. Coach Bennett goes over the most essential aspects of starting the New Year (or any other time of year) running and running better.
Introduction (0:00)
Running Is Supposed to Be Fun (5:28)
Be Patient (11:22)
Goals... So Many Goals (14:50)
Flexibility Leads To Consistency (19:58)
Diversity in Training (24:10)
Fast Is Fun (26:25)
Test Yourself (30:38)
Strength Training Makes You Stronger (35:10)
Feel All The Feelings (38:13)
Be The Least Important Person In The Room (40:55)
Take Care Of Yourself (43:47)
Celebrate More (46:00)
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Episode 40: Answering Your (Mostly About) Running Questions

Well, I put together 14... maybe it's 15... could actually be 13 of the most popular questions that get sent my way and I answer them (as best as I can) on this episode. Questions like do I need to run a marathon, how many days should I run, how do I start running, and why do you have that mustache?
You know... the questions I get asked the most.
So, sit back or start your run or get walking because this is a great episode. And thank you for sending in so many questions! Keep them coming!
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Episode 31: Why You Should Play Running

We play basketball. We play football. We play tennis and play field hockey. We play cricket and we play volleyball. Why don't we play running? We used to. When we were kids we did. What happened? Well, a lot of things happened. Can we go back to playing running? Yes! Will playing running help us run, run more and run better? Yes and yes and yes! How? You got to listen to this episode of Coach Bennett's Podcast to find out.
(0:00) Welcome & Introduction to Episode
(4:45) Definition of Sport
(8:36) We Played Running as Kids
(15:08) Some Coaching Truths About Playing Running
(22:49) How To Keep Running Play
(33:08) Some Ways To Play Running
(40:45) Training Should Be Written in Pencil
Here are a few links for you to check out!
Read Coach Bennett Bennett's Newsletter entitled "Wanna Play Some Running?"
Read Coach Bennett's Instagram Post from 2021 about Play Running

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Episode 68. Survive and Advance.
September. For me... it was my danger zone. When I coached high school I looked at the month of September with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Mostly anxiety. It was great to get the team back together in school but I also knew that coming back to school meant so much more stress for the athletes.
The schedules they had all Summer were about to get completely thrown out. Class. Homework. Sickness. Races. Teachers. Classmates. Sickness. Late lunches. Early lunches. Missed breakfasts. Poor sleep. September was hard. And we were supposed to get better while we dealt with all of this?
Everyone has their own September. Could be another month of the year like December or January or June. Could be a danger zone that lasts a week or a day. Sometimes it can feel like all you can do is survive and advance. So, if you can learn how to handle and deal with and get through your own "September" a better way then you will not just survive and advance you will thrive and move forward. That's what I did with my Septembers.
Hope you enjoy this episode and thank you to mindset performance coach extraordinaire tammie bennett of the show up society for another great MIndset Minute.
Cheers and thank you for listening!
Coach Bennett
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing Rosalita/Bobby Jean in Asbury Park, NJ at the Sea Hear Festival

Jim Valvano speech at the 1993 Espy Award Show.
The Best of Kenny Loggins Playlist on Spotify
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Episode 28. 5 Hard Workouts That Are Really FUN

NERDS! Get excited because this one is a doozy! And by doozy I mean that this episode is straight fun. I'm going to tell you about 5 workouts that are super fun and really hard... or is it really fun and super hard? Maybe it's both. Whatever. Doesn't matter. What matters is that this episode will give you 5 workouts that you can use to mix up your training, challenge yourself, have a good time, and brag to your running buddies about after you do them.
I talk about the Michigan, Endless Fartlek, 40/30, Quarters Up & Down, Split Intervals,
The Michigan: 2K Tempo, 1600m at ~10K Pace, 2K Tempo, 1200m at ~5K Pace, 2K Tempo, 800 @ ~3K Pace, 2K Tempo, 400M at 1500m/Mile Pace or faster. (2K Tempo can be shorter. As an example I've had athletes do 1K of Tempo instead of 2K.)
Endless Fartlek: Fartlek for unknown amount of time with unknown durations of hard and easy. You just don't know how long you got to go hard or can go easy. (Try the Funky Fartlek in the Nike Run Club app.)
40/30: Continuous run (ideally on track) with pace changing every 200 meters. The workout is called 40/30 because the athletes at the University of Oregon would run a 40 second 200m and then go straight into a 30 second 200m. The workout continued until you can no longer successfully run 40/30. You can personalize this by making the 200m times based on YOUR Tempo Run pace and YOUR Mile/1500m Pace.
Quarters Down & Up: You can play with this workout in your own way. My example... Start with a 400 at your Tempo Run pace. Recover for same duration as that 400. Next interval is a 400m ONE SECOND FASTER. Recovery is same duration as that 400. Next interval is a 400m ONE SECOND FASTER. Recovery is same duration as that 400. You keep getting one second faster until you can't. Then you start running 400's ONE SECOND SLOWER. Recovery is same duration as that 400. You keep slowing down by ONLY ONE SECOND until you can't and you slow down more than one second. That ends the workout.
Split Intervals: You simply split up an interval into different paces. For example... you do a 1000m interval and an 800m interval and a 400 Interval. The 1K could be split up as a 200m at 10K pace into 400m at 5K pace into 200m at 10K pace into 200m at 1500/Mile pace. Then you

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