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Dec 19, 2019

Episode 146: Professional triathlete Morgan Pearson was one of the founding members of the Tinman Elite club and joins us to talk about the founding of the group. We also discuss his transition to becoming a professional triathlete and his win at this past week's Club Cross Championship.

1:02 Morgan's background and how it lead to a later change to triathlon

2:50 What were your times before you made the jump?

3:49 When you made the big jump is that when you realized you may want to run at college?

5:14 Did you compete in swimming in high school too?

5:50 When did you make the college commitment?

6:08 Why did you make that transfer to Colorado?

6:57 Did you realize when you made the transition to Colorado did you realize you wanted to pursue this after school?

8:26 You were one of the founding members of Tinman Elite right?

8:51 What made you decide to join Tom?

12:00 When you started Tinman with Drew early on, did you ever even dream it could become what it has become?

13:58 You have run under Wetmore and Tom, what are some of the biggest differences?

17:02 When did you decide to make the jump to triathlon?

19:39 Your first triathlon you won, how did the race go?

23:09 How much training on the bike did you do before that?

24:17 USA Triathlon must have been interested in you after that win?

25:04 Was it after that win that you decided you were going to focus on it?

25:45 What has been the toughest transition from runner to triathlete?

27:34 Are you racing more as triathlete than you were as a runner?

28:29 When is your Olympic qualifying race?

29:58 Three Club Cross Championships in a row and you won the individual title

32:47 How did the Club Cross race play out?

Final Surge 5 questions in under a minute

Favorite endurance/running book? - Running with the Buffaloes
Current trainers you are wearing? - 361
Favorite race? - Club Cross
Favorite recovery meal or recovery drink? - Kale smoothie
Your favorite workout - Fartlek

 

Resources
Morgan on Instagram
Morgan on Twitter

 

Dec 12, 2019

Welcome to episode 145 of the Final Surge Podcast. Today we welcome hall of fame sprint coach Tony Holler. Tony is an extremely popular coach known for his program Feed The Cats. He has been coaching for close to 40 years and we talk to Tony about how what he does with sprinters can translate to the endurance world.

1:00 How did Tony get started in track

4:08 What was your background in track before you became the head coach in 1990?

5:28 Where did that drive to change the program and learn come from?

7:58 Do you find that writing so much makes you examine closer the way you think and why you think them?

9:28 What can an endurance athlete or coach learn from your system Feed The Cats?

12:58 You say the faster your top-end speed, the faster your sub-max speed is, how does that work?

15:45 John O'Malley is also the only coach two have two different individuals win Footlocker

16:38 If a miler works on top-end speed, how is that helping with his mile time, is it biomechanical, neural, combination or what is impacting his mile time when we work on top-end?

20:32 You say speed is neurological, not muscular, does that mean a kid shouldn't be in the weight room, or they can, they just are not going to get the benefit they think they are going too?

24:23 Your school comes to you and says you are now the cross country coach, how do you implement springing, X-factor and lactate workouts?

30:32 Would you be doing those daily or part of the workout days or when?

Resources
Track Football Consortium
Feed The Cats Video series
Tony on Twitter

 

 

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