The Endurance Athlete Journey Podcast Introduction

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02/27/25 • 56 min

Welcome to The Endurance Athlete Journey Podcast! This is our very first episode and in this episode we discuss why we started the podcast and what the podcast is all about. We also discuss ourselves and our personal journeys both as endurance athletes and as professionals. Coach Justin is an experienced triathlon coach and coach Katie is a sports dietitian.

Here are some key points from our discussion:

Both Justin and Katie have unique experiences as athletes and as professionals and we discuss how we can provide useful information and a unique perspective for individuals engaging in endurance sports.
With our experience we combine both a coaches perspective with a sports dietitian perspective
For future episodes we plan to discuss topics in endurance sports including nutrition, training, and beyond in a way that brings our own experience and expertise as well as our own curiosities and stories to help provide context that helps our audience better understand these concepts/topics.
We discuss Katie's life long journey as an athlete starting at the age of 12 in middle school as well as how and why she became a dietitian.
We discuss Justin's history with bariatric surgery and how he transformed himself into an endurance athlete and coach
We want to encourage discussion and questions. We know that we each have a different perspective and we encourage others to share their perspectives on different topics with us.

We hope you enjoy our very first episode! Feel free to send us feedback or questions via facebook at The Endurance Athlete Podcast Facebook group or email us at [email protected]

If you want to follow us for more content you can follow the podcast @enduranceathletejourney or you can follow Katie @the.running.dietitian or Justin @tabularasaracing.

If you prefer to watch the episode you can also find us on You Tube @theenduranceathletejourney

Here are some key points from our discussion:

Both Justin and Katie have unique experiences as athletes and as professionals and we discuss how we can provide useful information and a unique perspective for individuals engaging in endurance sports.
With our experience we combine both a coaches perspective with a sports dietitian perspective
For future episodes we plan to discuss topics in endurance sports including nutrition, training, and beyond in a way that brings our own experience and expertise as well as our own curiosities and stories to help provide context that helps our audience better understand these concepts/topics.
We discuss Katie's life long journey as an athlete starting at the age of 12 in middle school as well as how and why she became a dietitian.
We discuss Justin's history with bariatric surgery and how he transformed himself into an endurance athlete and coach
We want to encourage discussion and questions. We know that we each have a different perspective and we encourage others to share their perspectives on different topics with us.

We hope you enjoy our very first episode! Feel free to send us feedback or questions via facebook at The Endurance Athlete Podcast Facebook group or email us at [email protected]

If you want to follow us for more content you can follow the podcast @enduranceathletejourney or you can follow Katie @the.running.dietitian or Justin @tabularasaracing.

If you prefer to watch the episode you can also find us on You Tube @theenduranceathletejourney

Next Episode

Recovery from training and why it is important

Episode 3: Recovery from Training and Why it is Important. There is more to recovery than "resting and taking the day off". How do we know when we should do something purposeful to aid recovery? Why is recovery so important to the training process and for training adaptation? What things can we do to encourage recovery?

Here are a few other things we discuss during the podcast:

We define "Training Volume" as a 3-part equation: duration + intensity + frequency.

We discuss the Fitness-Fatigue model where the accumulation of fatigue masks fitness. Therefore, in order to observe your fitness, we must shed accumulated fatigue. This is done through the recovery process.

We talk about the four phases of training adaptation and what it means to really be "over-trained". Being over-trained is actually a rare occurrence but non-functional over-reaching and over-training is something we should be concerned about and able to identify.

We discuss that training stress is not the only type of stress that impacts training adaptation. Life stress has a major impact on our ability to build fitness and the body's ability to recover.

We talk about why our muscles get sore and what is the reason for delayed onset muscle soreness. Muscle soreness is not simply caused by mico-tears in the muscle fiber. That can be one reason but it is not the only reason why our muscles are get sore from hard training sessions.

We mention a few signs that may indicate you are under-recovered and some things you can do to aid recovery and get you back to training.

We also discuss how glycogen depletion impacts our ability to train to our full potential and why proper pre-training, intra-training, and post-training fueling is so important to the recovery process.

We hope you enjoy the podcast. Feel free to send us feedback or questions via Facebook at The Endurance Athlete Podcast Facebook group or email us at [email protected]

If you want to follow us for more content you can follow the podcast @enduranceathletejourney or you can follow Katie @the.running.dietitian or Justin @tabularasaracing.

If you prefer to watch the episode you can also find us on You Tube @theenduranceathletejourney