Two of Kaizen's co-founders — Josh and Michael — get together weekly to talk about running, their training and how they use the app to achieve their running goa...
Josh is on track for sub-2:28. Michael is trending in the other direction.This episode dives into just how well Josh's training is going and why he's so bullish about his prospects for Barcelona Marathon, and also into some of the issues Michael's facing.Josh's banked 190k in the past week, and is on track to breach 200k in the coming weeks. Day to day consistency has been everything, and he explains a bit about how that.Michael is firmly in a hole and thinks he has some sort of low energy availability issue from not fuelling enough. Reassessing goals and plans accordingly. He shares a bit of his roadmap to get better.Josh explains some of the other ways that training for a marathon can go wrong. The episode wraps up with some back and forth about the sub 2:28 challenge being alive and well over the course of 2025.KaizenDownload the app: https://kaizen.app.link/milesbetterStrava club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/runkaizenWeb: https://runkaizen.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runkaizen/Michael: https://www.strava.com/athletes/32067191Josh: https://www.strava.com/athletes/1721750
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16: When Training Gets Tough
Josh and Michael are halfway through their training block, shooting for a sub 2:28 at the Barcelona Marathon on 16 March. Michael has had a major setback and Josh has pretty much been in a different city every day for the past week, yet he is somehow managing to continue increasing his training load.This episode is a deep dive into how to stay motivated with you training when you're pushing your limits and things are getting hard. They talk a lot about being realistic about your situation and adjusting goals accordingly, including when it makes sense to completely ignore the big outcome goal at the end and just focus on the next day.Reasonable amount of chat as to why sunk cost fallacy is not relevant for runners.PSA: we are at the Barcelona Half Marathon Expo this week. Come say hi!KaizenDownload here: https://kaizen.app.link/milesbetterStrava club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/runkaizenWeb: https://runkaizen.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runkaizen/Michael: https://www.strava.com/athletes/32067191Josh: https://www.strava.com/athletes/1721750
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15: Train More, Race Faster with Jake Barraclough
This episode features a special guest, Jake Barraclough, who is living proof of the science and principles behind what we're building at Kaizen. Running is simple. Run more to get faster.
Jake has been consistently running 200-250km per week since he moved to Japan about 18 months ago, and has improved his marathon PB down to 2:17. He reckons there's more to give (with more training) and is training towards a 2:12 at the Tokyo Marathon in just over one month's time.
We dive deep into Jake's running history, motivations and aspirations for the future.
Also some chat about Josh and Michael's ongoing training battle to see who can get into sub 2:28 shape for Barcelona Marathon on 16 March.
Kaizen
Download here: https://kaizen.app.link/milesbetter
Strava club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/runkaizen
Web: https://runkaizen.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runkaizen/
Michael: https://www.strava.com/athletes/32067191
Josh: https://www.strava.com/athletes/1721750
Find Jake
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RanToJapan
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rantojapan
Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/41200754
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14: How to Build Training Load
Less than 8 weeks until Barcelona Marathon, so Josh and Michael are really ramping up their training. They go into their training, both recent and future, and talk quite a lot about how they are planning on building their training load and structuring their training weeks.
If they want to get close to a sub-2:28, they realise they'll need to be averaging over 100 miles per week, likely peaking at around 200km. Josh has it all in his head, and Michael is wrapping his around the idea of going to bed early enough to fit it in.
Josh gears up to get kicked out of his virtual competition and Michael decides his entire training block will be completed on the same out and back.
Find out how Josh thinks about hitting training load goals when his target is up around 200km per week, right at the end of the episode.
Josh: https://www.strava.com/athletes/1721750
Michael: https://www.strava.com/athletes/32067191
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13: Barcelona Calling
It's been about a month since the last episode and now less than 9 weeks til Barcelona Marathon, which is round 1 of the sub 2:28 challenge.
In this episode, Josh and Michael talk about their last month of training in Mexico and Australia respectively, being the weeks leading into the part of the marathon training block that "counts". Some details about the last week or so and Josh's run up a de-commissioned funicular and Michael doing his first trail race.
Big focus on what's coming up over the next few months of training leading into Barcelona.
runkaizen.com
@runkaizen
Josh: https://www.strava.com/athletes/1721750
Michael: https://www.strava.com/athletes/32067191
Two of Kaizen's co-founders — Josh and Michael — get together weekly to talk about running, their training and how they use the app to achieve their running goals. The current season follows them fighting it out to beat Josh's PB of 2:28:19, featuring an assortment of guests who are on their own running and marathon journeys.
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