This is my 2nd interview with Kilian Jornet, the greatest mountain and ultra runner of all time. We discuss ways for athletes to improve in training & racing, recovery, nutrition and UTMB 2022.
Watch the interview on YouTube, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Libsyn.
🚨 BIG GIVEAWAY!! I’m buying and giving away a pair of Nnormal shoes (when they launch) + a COROS APEX Pro + a box of 12 Maurten gels, prize pack valued at $550+. The same shoes, GPS watch and gels Kilian uses. To enter, subscribe to my YouTube channel and comment: what was your favorite takeaway, lesson or quote from this episode? 1 winners will be picked at random.🚨
Chapters:
- 0:00 Start
- 3:42 Recovery from UTMB
- 5:42 Kilian’s thoughts on recovery tools
- 7:10 Sleep and rest
- 8:32 Does Kilian work with a physical therapist or chiropractor?
- 9:41 UTMB – how Kilian felt going into race day
- 14:10 Does Kilian still experience race day nerves?
- 17:21 Kilian’s UTMB race strategy
- 19:50 UTMB heart rate data Kilian
- 21:15 Running the first 60km with Jim Walmsley
- 22:30 Kilian’s HR going too high, letting Jim go
- 25:45 How Kilian reset mentally from negative to fighting
- 26:35 Details of Kilian’s winning UTMB move
- 29:25 Blood testing Kilian UTMB, with lactate, glucose and cholesterol
- 32:00 Kilian’s nutrition & hydration strategy for ultras
- 35:30 Thoughts on fasted running
- 37:20 Body adaptations change during the season
- 39:15 Kilian’s background with anxiety and stress
- 42:35 How Kilian used to deal with anxiety
- 45:20 Kilian’s approach to strength training, mobility and cross training
- 46:56 Advice to non elite runners for strength training
- 49:06 How has Kilian grows from failure?
- 52:18 How to balance low intensity training and high intensity
- 54:48 Why Kilian avoids zone 5 training
- 55:23 Advice for athletes to enjoy trail & ultra running
- 57:35 Parting thoughts
Watch the interview on YouTube, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Libsyn.
LINKS AND TOOLS MENTIONED:
- Kilian Jornet’s UTMB Record Breaking Data
- Analyzing Kilian Jornet’s Data to Help You Improve!
- Cost-Benefit Recovery Quadrant v3 by Peter Tierney
- My 1st Extramilest Show with Kilian
- Maurten Drink Mix 320
- Maurten – Gel 100
- Maurten – Gel 100 Caf 100
- Maurten Solid C 225 bar
- COROS APEX Pro watch
- Nnormal Footwear and Apparel
- Above the Clouds Book
- Training for the Uphill Athlete Book
- Athlete Climate Academy
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🚨 BIG GIVEAWAY!! I’m buying and giving away a pair of Nnormal shoes (when they launch) + a COROS APEX Pro + a box of 12 Maurten gels, prize pack valued at $550+. The same shoes, GPS watch and gels Kilian uses. To enter, subscribe to my YouTube channel and comment: what was your favorite takeaway, lesson or quote from this episode? 1 winners will be picked at random.🚨
Hi Flo
I’m about to start MAF training (ordered the HRM today) having never done anything like it before. I’m in my late 40s, have run 5 or 6 marathons before with the most recent best time being 3:28. I’m curious as to how I’ll respond to MAF training (or low heart rate training in general) because all my marathons have been done without any base really. I maybe run 5k a week each week then when I decide to do a marathon I would start the plan and immediately jump up the milage. For example my weekly milage at the highest point of the plan (that got me the 3:28) was 30 miles. I have never been injured despite these spikes in milage and my age, so I’m hopeful I get decent results from MAF but honestly I don’t know if the physiology that allows me to train without a base will be a benefit or not.
Anyway, I’ll soon find out.
E