How a Sprinkle of Sprinting Can Massively Improve Your Distance Running: Kieran Gillespie

All runners are not the same. Distance runners and sprinters
really seem to be engaging in an entirely different sport. Tiny
and lean elite marathoners are a stark contrast to muscular,
powerful sprinters. Training for these events is vastly different
and what it takes to be successful for a 100m sprinter is quite
different than that for a marathoner.


Or is it?


Certainly it’s easy to find the differences, but I would argue
that there’s a significant overlap both in the physical training
philosophy, but the mental aspect as well. Most runners listening
to this show are clearly on the endurance side, but there is a
lot to be learned from the sprint side as well.


On today’s Run to the Top Podcast, I’ve invited on the creator of
Sprint Science, Kieran Gillespie. Kieran is an England Athletics
coach, with a degree in both mathematics and physical education.
You can find him sharing his sprint training knowledge on his
wildly popular Sprint Science Instagram account and that’s where
I got hooked on his training advice.


On this episode, you’ll learn:


what it takes to train to be an excellent sprinter

how endurance runners can benefit from sprint training,and

the biomechanics of truly fast speed



And if you’ve ever wondered what on earth the fastest people on
the planet are thinking about for a 10-20 second race, we’ll talk
about that as well.
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