About this episode

Rory Leonard discusses his decision to change training teams and his achievements as a record-holding athlete.

Visit lisrunning.com to be coached by us! On this episode, the boys had on special guest Rory Leonard! Rory is the British 10k record holder on the roads in 27:38, as well as a top-10 finisher at Euro Cross and a finalist in the European Champs 10k. He was one of the founding members of Team Makou, a Hoka sponsored training group based out of London. After a few years of success with the team, Rory is ready for a new stimulus change and just announced he is switching training groups. We talked about why + where he is going next. Enjoy! FOLLOW RORY IG: https://www.instagram.com/rrylnrd/?hl=en FOLLOW US ON STRAVA Chris https://www.strava.com/athletes/29985667 Scotty https://www.strava.com/athletes/98633526 Danny https://www.strava.com/athletes/23504210 CHECK OUT OUR INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/lifeinstridepodcast/ QALO QRNT SMART RING 10% OFF ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠qalo.com/lifeinstride⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SWIFTWICK SOCKS https://swiftwick.com/ 15% off code: LIFEINSTRIDE KEN COMBS RUNNING STORE https://www.kencombsrunningstore.com/ 10% off code: LIFEINSTRIDE MASON CONSTRUCTION…

People in this episode

Host: OTQ Boyz

Guest: Rory Leonard

Topics covered

• running
• training
• athlete transition
• record holder
• sports news

Keywords

• British 10k record
• Team Makou
• Hoka
• training change
• Euro Cross

Sponsors

QALO, SWIFTWICK, KEN COMBS RUNNING STORE, CARBS FUEL, SWITCHBACK ELECTROLYTES

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Team Makou, Hoka, lisrunning.com, MASON CONSTRUCTION, Life In Stride Podcast

Places: London

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