How Does Long Course Training Affect Your 10K Speed?

How Does Long Course Training Affect Your 10K Speed?

From The Lonely Triathlete - triathlon training and motivation for the masses by Todd Sauder

April 27, 2026 · 18 min · Season 5 · Episode 27

About this episode

Todd Sauder discusses the impact of long course training on 10K speed based on his personal experiment.

Train faster run faster, right? Let's assume that is true, so how much faster? I've done the experiment on myself and I share with you the results. Join our community at www.patreon.com/TheLonelyTriathlete Transcript 0:07 Hi and welcome to the lonely triathlete. My name is Todd, and I am the lonely triathlete coming to you live from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on this Sunday, April 26 2026. 0:22 Welcome to the lonely triathlete. This is a podcast where I talk about age group, training and racing and promote community in an effort to help us all be a little less lonely. Now I'm suffering at the moment, and probably in a way in which you cannot guess. And I'm going to eliminate the guesswork right now - I feel like, for the past five minutes, I'm gonna burp just I can't, I can't get a burp out. So I would be shocked if I don't burp in the middle of this podcast. And this is an authentic podcast, I don't edit 99.9% of the time. I don't edit anything, so I'm not going to edit. I will. I will not burp in your ear. I guarantee you that. But I'm just telling you that feeling of having an impending burp, 1:25 it's almost worse than an aerobic threshold. It's almost worse than…

People in this episode

Host: Todd Sauder

Topics covered

  • long course training
  • 10K speed
  • triathlon
  • running
  • personal experiment

Keywords

  • long course training
  • 10K speed
  • triathlon training
  • running faster
  • personal results

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Places: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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