Once a 2:16 marathoner ➡️Mountain-Ultra-Trail Runner 🏔️🏃🏻🙌 at @hoka @corosglobal . Pulmonary embolism survivor ❤️🩹. Coach at @Higher_Running
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The Full Film “Starting Over” produced by @StephenGnoza now available online for you all to watch 🎥🙌! Thank you so much to everyone that made this possible! #TimeToFly
"Starting Over" with @SageCanaday.
Enjoy this film, produced by Stephen Gnoza, and share your love for Sage in the comments below! bit.ly/StartingOverSC #TimeToFly
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RIP “Gags”….a great and legendary coach. Certainly one of my idols and influences growing up in this sport and learning about training and coaching. What a career and lifelong dedication to the sport 🏃🏻🙌!
Frank Gagliano was a college quarterback.
After his career, he was hired to start a football team at a high school. While waiting, he coached track. They never started the football team.
Gags went on to become one of the greatest American distance coaches in history: 15 Olympians, 140 All-Americans, 43 sub-4 milers.
He passed away this week.
We often think that you've got to have done it or experienced it to coach it. Gags was never a runner. He just wanted to coach, the true essence of the word, helping people out.
“I don’t have golf clubs. I have a stopwatch." And like the best 'old school' coaches, he'd help whoever showed up.
I was a former high school phenom, struggling in college. Then I got a call from an unknown number.
"Steve. We've never met. It's Gags with the Farm Team. I just wanted you to know that you're great. Talent doesn't go away. Stick with it. You've got people who believe in you. If I can ever help, let me know."
He called a struggling 19-year-old out of nowhere, while running the best professional team in the country.
In an era where training got really complicated, Gags kept it simple. His philosophy was strength + speed, consistently for a long freaking time.
“Everyone has to be patient in development. Everyone has to enjoy the sport, have a lot of fun, and work really hard.”
More than the workouts, his real secret was the one every great coach shares. Relationships. His son Ralph put it best:
“As a track coach, you have very large teams, many participants, and he carried over the years very special relationships — not only with the great ones, but even with the ordinary athlete.”
He was still coaching into his late 80s.
“As long as my mind is in the sport for workouts, so I don’t deprive the men and women that I’m coaching, I’ll keep coaching.”
And this summer, at 89, when they named a national championship race after him, “I’m not a cocky man. I’m the guy that just coaches, and the athletes mean everything to me, everything.”
He was a coach’s coach. Someone who lost his first meet 112 to 15, and then went on to become an all-time great...despite never having run.
Because the point was to help people....even those he didn't coach.
RIP Gags.
Not really surprising at all. #cleansport
CAN I HACK IT AS A “TRADITIONAL RUNNER” IN A BACKYARD ULTRA?! BRING IT ON!
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
As a “traditional runner” I’ve had the good fortune to experiencing pretty much #AnySurfaceAnyDistance in distance running: from racing 800m and the mile on the track in middle school to running 5k/10k and Marathons in college. I’ve run in a few US Olympic Marathon Trials, won a World Mountain Championship, and made the Golden Trail Series as well as the SkyRunning World Finals. I’ve finished Western States and UTMB100 (not always well) and have been Top 20 at The Chicago and Boston Marathons. So now I say this: BRING IT BACKYARD ULTRAs!
Thanks for this opportunity @lastsoulultra and @kim.gottwald
#LSU #byu #backyardultra
Sometimes I just feel disillusioned with endurance sports nowadays(marathon and ultra running)….like how many people out there now are doping with banned peptides? 💉🧐
on the Trail Talk podcast with @irunovermountains ...great chat! From money and sponsorship changes to other dynamics in mountain-ultra-trail running. We caught up in Chamonix, France during UTMB week youtu.be/BbTeVSJ1aBU?si=9Sjk…
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The AIU has provisionally suspended Lais Mascarenhas Gomes Araujo (Brazil) for Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (Drostanolone).
Details here: bit.ly/Provisional-suspensio…
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In case you didn't know what "backyard ultra" meant, @SageCanaday explains it...
There's a niche part of the niche sport of ultra running called "Backyard Ultras"...it involves running a 4.16mile (6.4km) loop course every hour. You have to complete the loop within the hour. "Last person standing" wins. These things often go on for multiple days and hundreds and hundreds of miles. In our latest "Getting Loopy Podcast" @StephenGnoza and I talk about these things: Tune in here: youtu.be/0-1mpXvhoDI?si=qQ5W…
There's a niche part of the niche sport of ultra running called "Backyard Ultras"...it involves running a 4.16mile (6.4km) loop course every hour. You have to complete the loop within the hour. "Last person standing" wins. These things often go on for multiple days and hundreds and hundreds of miles. In our latest "Getting Loopy Podcast" @StephenGnoza and I talk about these things: Tune in here: youtu.be/0-1mpXvhoDI?si=qQ5W…
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The AIU has provisionally suspended Ronald Kipkoech Korir (Kenya) for Use of a Prohibited Substance/Method (ABP case)
Details here: bit.ly/Provisional-suspensio…
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Forget Aid Stations: This Denver 50K Fuels Runners Exclusively on Chalupas and Diablo Sauce runnersworld.com/news/a74110…
Eat 10 food items from Taco Bell 🌮while running 31-miles (and not puking🤢?) The real deal of what went down a the Taco Bell 50km (Denver edition) last weekend. My “race report VLOG” …as they say: You are hungrier than you think! youtu.be/6DJjvcYrg9c?is=ZXW6… #TB50k #TacoBell50k
A lot of Marathon Runners often get this wrong in training: They blast their high intensity Vo2max interval workouts at too fast of a pace! (Or they do them too often in training). That can be great for a 5km-half runner…but maybe not so good for a marathoner!
Often times if we have a certain Marathon goal pace (or a decent gauge on our current Marathon fitness level) we can give ourselves a dialed in pace range for optimal Vo2max workouts as detailed on this chart. Realize some days this may be 3-5 seconds per mile (2-3 sec/km) faster or slower depending on the day and weather conditions…as well as the individual runner.
It’s a reason why a lot of our #HigherRunning marathon “speed workouts” like 6 x 1km or 8 x 800m are done closer to 5km race pace or effort with a 2-3min walk/jog rest in between . The stimulus of running between 5km- 10km race pace during marathon training is a lot about trying to not only boost Vo2max and improve lactate clearance….it’s also about boosting Running Economy or efficiency. Because these speeds are substantially faster than Marathon Pace, the goal is to “make marathon pace feel more comfortable.” You’re essentially “learning to run faster on tired legs” for 2 to 5-minutes at a time.
If this doesn’t match up for you, look at your 5km time compared to your marathon time… if you’re 5km “predicts” a much faster marathon time it’s likely you haven’t closed this gap enough with consistently higher Easy endurance mileage (and zone 2 work). While most of our training philosophy at #higherrunning is centered around timing these kinds of workouts strategically around quality Long Runs and longer Threshold sessions (periodization) we usually don’t program them into the same week as a longer volume, Marathon specific Long Run. It’s all about balancing volume with quality.
How do your paces compare? 👇. Save this for your next marathon training block and share with a friend/training partner! Follow @higherrunning for more free tips and real running coaching advice by experienced coaches with decades of marathon and ultra racing.
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Now, this is a challenge for the Ages. 50k and 9 Tace Bell stops! Thanks, @SageCanaday ! This race sounds awesomely bizarre!
What was the most extreme “race” in the world this weekend? Well..maybe it was the #tacobell50k @tb50k in Denver yesterday!! 31-miles on a hot sunny day and 11 different taco bell stops. Puke = DQ (I didn’t puke!). But only got 2nd this year in 4:20. Did you take part in the Taco Bell 50k yesterday? 🌮🏃🏻🙌. Thanks to @stephengnoza for joining and for the extra vid clips. Congrats to all the runners! - so awesome to meet you! Also consider donating to @achillesintl
What was the most extreme “race” in the world this weekend? Well..maybe it was the #tacobell50k @tb50k in Denver yesterday!! 31-miles on a hot sunny day and 11 different taco bell stops. Puke = DQ (I didn’t puke!). But only got 2nd this year in 4:20. Did you take part in the Taco Bell 50k yesterday? 🌮🏃🏻🙌. Thanks to @stephengnoza for joining and for the extra vid clips. Congrats to all the runners! - so awesome to meet you! Also consider donating to @achillesintl
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For NBCA, reaching $300,000 would be transformational — and we’re SO close!
Every gift is DOUBLED through midnight tonight.
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The best Tecton version yet? After running in the @hoka Tecton X4 trail shoe it is my favorite iteration so far!
The redesigned parallel plates as well as two layers of soft, yet responsive PEBA midsole foam really make this one stand out and resonate with my stride better.
Still great traction with 4mm lugs with a Vibram Megagrip Litebase Outsole also.
Combined with the lightweight and breathable Matryx Micro Textile Upper….this shoe can take you places! 👟🚀. Great for buffed out trails up to semi-technical trail running. For more information follow #hoka (link in bio) and #FlyHumanFly 🙌
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What a terrible situation we have with the women’s world record for the marathon (2:09:56). Although it was ratified, it is my own opinion that it was dirty. How are clean athletes ever going to break it?
All eyes on Berlin 👀
Tigst Assefa is ready to challenge the world record at the BMW Berlin Marathon on Sunday, where Geay, Adola, Kitata and Molla are among favourites for the men’s race.
Full preview 🔗 bit.ly/4hMIqNW
