149: How Adding in 1 Run Transformed My Running Fitness
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We did. There was no way to prove it, but I think you cheated because we lost and I'm not quite sure how that happened. But actually recently you've also been using it as a training tool for Valencia Marathon and that's made a huge difference, hasn't it?
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Me, Rick Kelsey. And me, Tom Dunn. Oh, gosh, you let him in. Oh, God, he's back. Yeah, we are joined by the Running Channel's mighty Thomas Dunn because he has become recently an ultra marathoner and completed the Hurtwood 50K. I have no idea how you did that, Thomas.
well we're gonna find out today if you're already a tom fan you probably know about tom's love hate relationship with running but uh everyone in the running channel office the running channel sphere has been i think gobsmacked by the fact that you actually quite enjoyed this you are actively wanting to go out for runs and you added an extra run in which i think might have been the catalyst to the fact that you actually enjoyed this so who is that guy Yeah, I don't, I really don't know. And what have they done with Tom? Why has he gone? But we know lots of people might be wanting to set new fitness goals or add runs in. So we thought this was a perfect time to delve in to what changed you from hate runner to love runner.
I still hate running. Oh, I just have a different. It's complicated. Facebook status. It's complicated.
As is life.
Let's dive in. Right, Rick, is your life complicated at the moment? No. What's going on with your running?
I successfully completed a lovely park run on Saturday. I've been upping my base mileage ahead of last week's rather big announcement that I'm going to do a marathon in 2026.
Yeah, and you only want to do a 14-week training plan.
Correct, starting on the 19th of January.
Are you adding in an extra run?
I'm going to do three runs a week.
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