Episode 5-513 – Baselining Race Times with Eric

About this episode

In this episode, Chris Russell discusses how to baseline racing fitness with guest Eric Buckley, along with book reviews and personal training insights.

Hello my running friends. And welcome to episode 5-513 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today we have a chat with our friend Eric Buckley about how to baseline your racing fitness when you are in a new season of life. But the same would apply to anyone beginning a new structured training program or coming back from an injury. You wonder, ‘Where do I start?’ Well today we are going to answer that question.  Or at least give it a good chewing over.  In section one I’ll go deeper into this baselining topic and how I’ve been working through it myself.  In section two I’m going to give you some book reviews, because I have been consuming so many books, I need to celebrate some of them and clear my desk.  In the outro I’ll talk through my recent training, what I have learned and how I’m using that to set new goals.  I’ll also revisit my summer goal list.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Chris Russell

Guest: Eric Buckley

Topics covered

• baselining race times
• racing fitness
• structured training
• injury recovery
• book reviews
• goal setting

Keywords

• race times
• fitness
• training program
• injury
• goal setting
• book reviews
• running

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