Pete Pfitzinger on How to Run Your Best Marathon: Aging, Intensity, Posture, and More
Release Date: 06/30/2025
Pete Pfitzinger on How to Run Your Best Marathon: Aging, Intensity, Posture, and More
The Strength Running Podcast
Pete Pfitzinger is a RRCA hall of famer, top American at two Olympic Marathons, and legendary coach and author most known for his book (the 4th edition is now available for preorder!). He's the top American at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Marathons, a 2-time winner of the San Francisco Marathon, 3rd place finisher at the 1987 NYC Marathon, and a coach with 30+ years of experience. He's on the podcast today to discuss marathon training: How is your posture during the delay related to how you run and your ? The value of back to back hard days (and how to structure them) Training red flags...
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info_outlinePete Pfitzinger is a RRCA hall of famer, top American at two Olympic Marathons, and legendary coach and author most known for his book Advanced Marathoning (the 4th edition is now available for preorder!).
He's the top American at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Marathons, a 2-time winner of the San Francisco Marathon, 3rd place finisher at the 1987 NYC Marathon, and a coach with 30+ years of experience.
He's on the podcast today to discuss marathon training:
- How is your posture during the delay related to how you run and your injury risk?
- The value of back to back hard days (and how to structure them)
- Training red flags that Pete consistently sees
- Why "Advanced Marathoning" is not just for advanced runners
- Recovery & training tips for Master's runners
- The different applications for cross-training
Pete is one of the best and it's an absolute pleasure to learn from him. If you have someone running marathons in your life, please send them this episode or go leave it 5 stars in your podcast player. And don't forget to preorder the new edition of his book!
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Boulderthon is on track to sell out again this year so don’t miss out. Use code STRENGTH20 to save $20 on the marathon or half-marathon here and I hope to see you in Boulder this fall.
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