How national record holder Kieran Lumb embodies the Norwegian method

About this episode

Kieran Lumb discusses his training journey and the impact of the Norwegian Method on his performance.

Perhaps it comes with the territory for someone with a degree in electrical engineering, but Kieran Lumb has never shied away from exploring the “Why” behind what he’s doing. In the context of his current day job, running as fast as possible at distances from the 1500m to the 10k, Kieran’s curiosity has led him to explore virtually every training style under the sun, never afraid to embrace the unknown in the name maximizing performance. That tinkerer’s mindset is what pulled him from his hometown of Vancouver to Seattle, the sight of his breakthrough onto the global stage as young pro, and it is the same sense of exploration that has seen him make another move in the pursuit of excellence, this time across the world to the modern-day mecca of endurance innovation, Norway. Less than a year into this most recent training upgrade, and already with a pair of national record-hitting times on the roads this year, there’s plenty of real-world feedback to suggest the changes made were the right ones. This week on The Shakeout Podcast, Kieran joins the show to recap his move across the pond, what immersing himself in the now-famous “Norwegian Method” has looked like, and what new and…

People in this episode

Host: David Stol

Guest: Kieran Lumb

Topics covered

• training methods
• endurance running
• athlete performance
• Norwegian Method
• national records

Keywords

• Kieran Lumb
• Norwegian Method
• endurance innovation
• national record
• running training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canadian Running Magazine

Places: Vancouver, Seattle, Norway

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