This episode of the Mind Your Miles Podcast is a real humdinger! Nick, Will, and Danny start with some quick updates on their training and talk about their mental approaches when they step on a starting line - regardless of their fitness.

For the main topic of the episode, we did a show and tell! Each host brought a workout that they scheduled for their athletes this week to discuss. We go deep on the merits of each session and talk about what we like about each session and how they fit into the build-ups for each respective athlete.

Finally, the boys get into a discussion about their favorite spring marathons to nab that elusive Boston Marathon Qualifier. Nick chose the Napa Valley Marathon, Danny chose the Mountains 2 Beach Marathon, and Will chose the Jersey City Marathon.

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In this episode of Mind Your Miles, Nick Hilton, Will Baldwin, and Danny Mercado cover a bunch of the questions runners and coaches actually deal with during marathon training.

We start with how to approach a marathon when you are not fully ready. Think Boston Marathon or Tokyo Marathon when you are coming off an injury, had a short build, or did not get enough long runs. We talk pacing when outcomes feel wide open, how to level set expectations without killing confidence, and why short builds sometimes create surprising race days.

Then we get into nutrition. How do you talk to athletes about day to day fueling without playing doctor? What is fair game for a coach, what should go to a dietitian, and how food logs and routines can solve a lot without overcomplicating things. We also share our go to pre race foods, plus thoughts on weight loss during high volume training.

After that, we share marathon workouts we like about 8 weeks out from the Boston Marathon, including long run structures, threshold workouts, and some sessions that work well in real life.

We also go off on a fun side rant about track and field comparisons across eras. Jim Ryun, super spikes, Mondo tracks, and why the technology conversation is tired.

Topics in this episode:

• Racing a marathon when you are not fully ready

• Boston Marathon and Tokyo Marathon training realities

• How to pace with uncertainty

• Nutrition advice for runners, what coaches can and cannot say

• Fueling routines, food logs, and recovery basics

• Marathon workouts 8 weeks out, threshold sessions, long run ideas

• Jim Ryun, super spikes, Mondo tracks, comparing eras in running

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This week, we kicked off the Mind Your Miles Book Club with one of the most iconic running books ever, Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear.

We break down the 1998 Colorado men’s cross country season, the team dynamic, the pressure cooker of chasing a title, and how different the book hits when you re-read it as a grown adult (and as coaches). We talk Wetmore’s methods, the training structure, the culture, the stuff that still holds up, and the stuff that makes you go, “Wait… they were doing WHAT?”

We also dig into some of the best little moments from the book, the characters that make teams work, and why you should read this book as a time capsule, not a training plan.If you’ve read it, you’ll have opinions. If you haven’t, you’ll probably want to.what we covered!!!

When we first read the book and what it meant back then

Big picture takeaways on the team + the era

Wetmore coaching breakdown (training, culture, weight talk, all of it)

Favorite scenes and random detailsWhy this book is still a classic, and why you shouldn’t copy-paste the training

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