Podcast 1: Overview

This first podcasts provides an overview of the topics planned in future episodes. Scroll down and click on the underlined podcast title OR go to iTunes and subscribe to this podcast.

First, we'll discuss basic running training principles. These are accepted guidelines for planning running programs. Any runner should be able to apply these guidelines to create an individualized daily training plan.

Other topics will include base building, tapering, cross training, racing, speed work, stretching, drills, strength training, heart rate monitors, trail running, and much more.

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MojoforRunningPodcast1: Overview

Podcast 2: The Hard/Easy Training Principle

In this Mojo for Running Podcast, Coach Deb explains the hard/easy training principle. The hard/easy training principle is the most basic of all training guidelines for runners of all levels. Nothing is more basic to safe, effective training. Listen to this episode to find out how to utilize this principle to reap the greatest benefit from your running training. 

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Podcast 3: The Once Weekly Long Run

In this Mojo for Running Podcast we'll talk about the once weekly long run, which is distinct from the other hard days of the week. The long run is the second basic weekly element of any running training schedule. Learn how to determine the length of the long run as compared to other runs and why it is so essential to a successful training program.

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Podcast 4: Running Resolutions 2010

In this running podcast, Coach Debbie Voiles discusses making future plans for your running career. To move forward, efficiently, in any endeavor, we must know where we are going. Sounds obvious, but many people don't stop to think about where they want to go. They just move in the correct general direction. Setting running goals, i.e., making running resolutions, will guide your running and increase the likelihood that you will achieve your goals.

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Podcast 5: Macro and Micro Cycles

In this Mojo for Running Podcast learn what running coaches mean when they say to construct your training using macro and micro cycles. And learn how to use micro cycles to plan the base building, sharpening and tapering phases of your macro training cycle. The focus in the episode is mainly on the base building phase. Find out how and when to increase mileage to build the base of your running program.

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Mojo Podcast #5: Micro and Macro Cycles

Podcast 6: After Base Building

Okay, you've built your training base. What next? Now you move into the second phase of your macro training cycle. It's time to stop increasing your mileage and start working on running speed and race specific training. This second phase will prepare you for the third phase, tapering.

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Podcast 6: The Second Phase

Podcast 7: Tapering for Your Goal Race

The final phase of the macro cycle is tapering. This Mojo for Running Podcast explains the theory behind tapering, how to taper, and when to taper.

Podcast #7: Tapering for Your Goal Race

Podcast 8: Tips for Running Faster

This Mojo for Running Podcast is about running faster. Here are 15 tips for increasing running speed. A future podcast will deal exclusively with speedwork, per se. This podcast presents 15 other activities you might want to add to your running training or incorporate as adjustments to your training program. If you are on a running plateau - and all of us find ourselves on a plateau now and then -  these suggestions are likely to help you jump off the plateau and resume steady improvement.

Podcast #8: Tips for Running Faster

Podcast 9: Easing Into Speedwork

This Mojo for Running Podcast is all about speed work. When should you incorporate speedwork? Who should do it? What kind should you start with? Coach Voiles talks about fartleks, pickups, striders, and other forms of speed work for runners.

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Podcast 10: The Long Term Effects of Running

In this Mojo for Running Podcast Coach Voiles looks at this question: Do you ever wonder if running will be good for you if you keep doing it for many years? Sure, running is good for your heart, and it burns calories, but do you wonder if your body will eventually suffer from all those miles? How will running affect you as you age? All those questions are answered in this podcast.

Podcast#10: How Running Affects Your Body in the Long Term

Podcast 11: There's Always Next Time

Coach Debbie Voiles discusses how to handle those times when life gets in the way of your running training. Every day the number of runners grows, not by a few but by many, and that is a great thing, but every one of those runners will, one day, face this dilemma.

Podcast 11: There's Always Next Time

Podcast 12: Dealing With Running Injuries

In this running podcast Debbie Voiles looks at how to deal with the inevitable running injury. If you are a runner, then you've probably been injured, or at some point you will be. That's not pessimistic but realistic. It happens, no matter how carefully you train. If you accept that and respond appropriately, you will be back on the road very soon. Let's look at the role massage therapists, chiropractors, physical therapists, orthopedists, and podiatrists can play in the life of an injured runner.

Podcast 12: Dealing With Running Injuries

Podcast 13: Per Mile Pace Difference for Hard/Easy Runs

In this Mojo for Running Podcast Coach Debbie Voiles answers this question is "What should the per mile time difference be between hard runs and easy runs?" She also discusses speed for and in different running situations.

Podcast 13: Per Mile Pace for Hard/Easy Runs

Podcast 14: Running in Hot Weather

We all run in hot weather from time to time. If you live in the South, like me, you run in it a lot. In this Mojo for Running podcast Coach Debbie Voiles discusses hot weather issues. I offer some tips for getting in your runs even when temps rise above 80 and 90 degrees, and even gives away her secret method for tolerating running on the hottest days of summer.

Podcast #14: Running in Hot Weather

Podcast 15: Food, Birthdays and Calories

Every runner is concerned about diet, nutrition, calories, and weight, at least to some extent. Most runners, like 90%, become runners, at least in part, to lose weight. And, every runner wants to avoid carrying around any extra pounds on those long runs.

Podcast 15: Food, Birthdays and Calories

Podcast 16: You Just Never Know

In this podcast Coach Debbie Voiles discusses when it's okay to depart from the racing plan and why it's okay to do it once in a while. Sometimes you plan and train perfectly, but, inexplicably, on race day, the wheels fall off, and other times nothing seems to go right before the race, but once the gun fires, karma takes over and the race unfolds like magic under your feet.

Podcast 16: You Just Never Know

Podcast 17: Running Through the Holidays

In this Mojo for Running Podcast, Coach Debbie Voiles discusses the challenge of sticking to your training schedule year around. For virtually every runner the hardest time to get in your scheduled daily run is between Thanksgiving and New Years.

Podcast #17: Running Through the Holidays

Podcast 18: What Does DNF Mean to You?

The topic of this Mojo for Running Podcast is DNFing. Veteran runnings will know that DNF stands for "Did Not Finish," three somewhat unpleasant words. Have you ever DNF'ed? It is likely to happen to every runner, eventually. The decision to DNF is a difficult one, but maybe it doesn't need to be such a hard pill to swallow. DNF has another even more important meaning.

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Have You Ever Had to DNF?

Podcast 19: A Great Work Ethic, A Challenged Runner

In this Mojo for Running Podcast Coach Debbie Voiles explains how a great work ethic can actually make sticking to a running schedule more difficult. Most runners have a great work ethic, certainly an admirable quality, but that can very attribute often challenges their running training, making it necessary for them to redefine 'working hard.'

A Great Work Ethic