Jakob Ingebrigtsen: Achilles Recovery, the Josh Kerr Rivalry & His Marathon Future

About this episode

Jakob Ingebrigtsen discusses his recovery from Achilles surgery, training methods, and his future in marathon running.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is one of the most dominant runners on the planet: two Olympic golds, multiple world championship medals, and five world records by age 25. He's also coming back from February Achilles surgery and rebuilding toward a season that could include three more world record attempts. Jessy Carveth sits down with Jakob for a candid, gear-nerd-friendly conversation about how he's actually training right now, what he really thinks of the "Norwegian Method" label, and how he uses lactate testing and elliptical work to keep VO2 high when he can't run. Jakob also breaks down one of the biggest shoe rotations in the sport, his hands-on role developing the Nike Victory spike that helped him break world records, and the new Coros watch he co-designed as part of the Fearless campaign. And yes, we get into the Josh Kerr question. How real is the rivalry? Are they friends? Would they ever line up at a marathon together? Jakob answers all of it, plus opens up about why he sees himself debuting at 26.2 in his late 30s and what fearless actually means to him. In this episode: Inside the Copenhagen Marathon weekend (and his brother's 2:29 debut) Why Jakob wants to wait until…

People in this episode

Host: Jessy Carveth

Guest: Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Topics covered

• Achilles recovery
• running training methods
• shoe technology
• rivalries in sports
• marathon future
• lactate testing

Keywords

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen
• Achilles recovery
• Norwegian Method
• lactate testing
• Nike shoes
• Josh Kerr
• marathon debut
• Coros watch

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nike, Coros

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