In this week's Uptempo Talks, Coach Dylan and Coach Ruairi talk about the pros and cons of the Strava application. As its best features are now moved behind a subscription, is it worth paying? How valuable are Strava segments to non-paying users?
Have you ever had an issue with your achilles, hamstring, patella, or IT band? As a runner, you probably just answered, “Yes.” Miriam Salloum, aka The Runner’s Mechanic, shares her tendon injury expertise in this episode, including what causes tendon issues in the legs and feet, how to treat these issues, and most importantly, how you can keep running while gradually getting pain free.
Miriam is a physical therapist who specializes in working with runners at her aptly named business, The Runner’s Mechanic, in Asheville, North Carolina. She hails from Gulfport, Mississippi, earned a BS in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a Masters of Physical Therapy at East Carolina University, and then a post-graduate internship at the Mayo Clinic’s prestigious biomechanics and motion analysis lab in Rochester, Minnesota.
Miriam has practiced orthopedic and sports physical therapy for the past 20 years, helping runners in Western North Carolina and elsewhere with foot and ankle rehabilitation, foot orthoses fabrications, taping techniques, spine and lumbopelvic neuromuscular reeducation, spinal manipulation, and the biomechanical analysis of running gait.
Miriam also uses dry needling techniques used for rehabbing the neuromuscular system. In 2015, she studied these techniques under Sue Falsone, head of Athletic and Sport Performance training for the US Soccer’s Men’s National team, as well as effective treatment of chronic tendon disorders in high level athletes and runners. In 2016, she was the physical therapist for the Olympic Training Site under the Center for Excellence for Sports Science in Johnson City, where she worked with Olympic athletes in bobsled and track and field.
Miriam received her certification of orthopedic manual therapy (COMT) for spine and peripheral joint disorders through Maitland-Australian Physiotherapy and is an orthopedic certified specialist (OCS) through the American Physical Therapy Association. She has been a national presenter for North American Seminars for the past 4 years, educating health professionals in the latest treatments of running related injuries. She models her approach to runners’ rehabilitation after the Speed Clinic & Center for Endurance Sports at UVA and Spaulding National Running Center at Harvard, which has allowed her to utilize the most effective techniques for real time gait re-training.
2:15 You are the Runner's Mechanic. What does that mean and how did you come up with the name?
3:45 You provide a wide range of physical therapy services for runners, but today, I would like to talk about just a few specific topics that runners face and what we can do to prevent and treat them. One of the most common issues that comes up with runners is injury to our tendons, most often the Achilles and the hamstrings, but all the other tendons in the legs and feet as well. Can you talk a little bit about what’s going on with this?
6:45 Let’s talk specifically about the achilles first. Is this so common, who is at risk for this, and what do we do about it?
8:30 What do we do to prevent our tendons becoming like brittle elastic bands, or at least push it down the road, specifically with Achilles because I think I hear Achilles injuries most often, and so what would you say you would do if you felt that niggle after, let’s say, a speed workout?
9:56 Can you talk about why hills are a problem for the Achilles?
11:09 Moving up to the hamstring, let’s talk about that. Who’s at risk for that? Is it the same population, or are there any differences you see between people who have hamstring injuries versus Achilles injuries?
12:13 Let’s start talking about treatment. We hear about for the Achilles, some people say do the eccentric drop, some people say the calf raises, some say do one but not the other, so what should we be doing for rehab for that?
16:08 I’ve heard different advice for insertional tendonitis, and I’ve heard different advice for if the problem is a little higher up. Do you use the same protocol for both, or do you treat those differently?
17:26 Are shoes, and orthotics, and things like that helpful? Can you use those long term? Should people with lower-leg problems always wear a kind of a stacked, non-minimalist shoe?
19:18 Once the rubberband (tendon) is overstretched, that’s it, right? There’s no getting back that elasticity, or can the body kind of heal that?
20:19 For the high hamstring, what is the PT for that?
22:24 What about the other tendon issues? We’ve talked about some of the most common ones, but we see runners that have all sorts of issues with tendons, the outside of the leg, the inside of the leg, the top of the foot, all of that. Can you talk a little bit about those and how common those are?
23:34 So basically, whatever tendon it is, there’s a loading protocol and you can still keep running as long as you’re not in too much pain?
24:13 Let’s talk a little bit about the IT band. Some of the issues that I’ve seen, the IT band gets upset when there’s something wrong with your ankles or there’s something wrong with higher up, like in your hips. Can you talk about that and how those are connected?
26:21 If somebody comes in to you and they’ve been suffering for 12 weeks and they’ve been trying some of this PT work on their own, when is that point where more invasive procedures and treatment have to come? What’s the point where maybe you need to have surgery or something like that? How do you know when it’s really, really severe?
29:00 I know tendons take a really long time to heal, and is it something that even if you do everything right, you could just be one of those people that has a cranky hamstring just forever, or is there hope that doing everything right, eventually you will be pain free?
30:14 In this crazy time, I want to ask you, how are telehealth visits going and how do they work if someone wants to schedule an appointment with you?
Questions I ask everyone:
31:42 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you started running, what advice would you give yourself?
32:38 What is the greatest gift running has given you?
33:39 Where can listeners connect with you?
“As we go through our life as runners, there’s always going to be changes in our system, and always ways that we can adapt, and have those addressed, and go on.”
“It was kind of perfect that your demographic was between 35 and 55 years of age. These kinds of tendon issues are usually in this population.”
“Tendons don’t like inactivity.”
“Training errors are probably one of the biggest reasons people can start to kick off some of these tendon problems.”
“In the research currently, even with these tendon-loading programs, if someone’s even doing it perfectly to the T and to the best of their ability, there’s still about a 40% rate of chronic tendon issues.”
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Yes, Tyler Andrews is the World Record Holder for the Treadmill Half Marathon. He is also a US National Champion, a World Championship Silver Medalist, and a World Record holder. And on this Saturday, June 6th, he will not just be racing a 50K, he will be racing a 50K on the treadmill. Talk about mental strength! He will be competing against renowned ultra runners Max King and Mike Wardian in a very special event that you can participate in too at no cost for the full 50K, or you can opt for a shorter distance.
If you’re tempted to go for a world record yourself this weekend against, say, American marathon star Sara Hall or John Raneri in the half marathon, or maybe just watch world records being broken, Tyler will provide the race details for the Chaski Challenge in this episode, including what will make it exciting for all you fans out there who prefer to spectate! He’ll also share his advice for using the treadmill as a training tool and his race day strategy, so if you consider the treadmill a necessary evil, definitely check out what Tyler has to say!
Tyler started his endurance career as a scrawny high school cross country runner only capable of running a 5K in 18:30, before competing in NCAA Div. 3 track and cross country for Tufts University. After graduation, he pursued his running dreams in South America where his hard work led to faster times at longer distances, ultimately earning him a HOKA ONE ONE sponsorship.
Ty has established himself as a world-class endurance runner, making three US National Teams for the 50K World Championships finishing with individual silver in 2016, and winning his first National Championships over 50 Miles in 2019. Over this decade of improvement, he also improved his best times to 2:46 for the 50K (the second fastest 50K time for an American), 5:43 for 50 miles (a 6:52 pace!), 2:15 for the marathon, 1:03 for the half marathon, 14:12 for the 5K, and competed at two US Olympic Marathon Trials in 2016 and 2020. Entering the trail world, he has also set speed records on the Inca Trail in 2019 and Everest Base Camp Trail in 2020.
In addition to being a world record holder, Tyler is the Chaski Endurance Collective founder, and his passion for athletics has also led him to empower other athletes over the last 10 years through coaching and mentorship via his work with Strive-Peru. He’s been coaching -- both in person and online -- for most of the last decade and hopes to continue to lead athletes to new triumphs over the years to come.
Tyler is weathering the current pandemic by being creative, making the best out of it, and just saying, “Yes” to stuff.
2:49 Can you tell us a little bit about what life and training has been like over the past year and especially now during the pandemic?
4:39 This weekend, June 5th and 6th, you are taking part in the Chaski Challenge which is open to everyone, and some elite runners are hoping to take down some world records on the treadmill. Can you first tell me about the open event and what that’s about and how people can get involved?
6:45 How do you watch that?
8:01 You do see in the recreation running community, a lot of times there’s this huge disconnect between elites and everybody else. There’s so many other sports that have just these rabid fans and we don’t always see that in track and field or marathoning or even ultra running, so that’s really cool that you’re trying to find a way to connect the two.
9:51 The more fans, the more sponsors, the more money, the more growth. It seems like if more elites take that point of view, it will only help them in the end.
10:45 Talk about the prizes. It’s okay to shout out some of the companies. I’d love to hear who’s supporting this. Your main sponsor is HOKA ONE ONE, right?
11:47 Let's talk about the elite field for a moment. You've got Sara Hall headlining the Women's half, John Raneri in the Men's Half, and then you’ve got Michael Wardian, Max King, and you in the Men's 50k. Sounds like a really exciting lineup! Can you break down the field for us, and do you have any predictions?
14:20 You’ve got some stiff competition, so I think that’s great that you picked some people that will give you a run for your money.
15:08 Why did you choose a treadmill and not your backyards?
16:28 Do you have to do special things like call up the people like Guiness, or how do you certify that it’s an official world record? Do you have to do all sorts of logistical stuff like that?
18:46 Can you tell me a little bit about the Chaski Endurance Collective, the organizer of this event?
21:55 I’m going to ask you to put on your coaching hat for a minute and give our listeners some treadmill tips because people hate the treadmill, and some of them grow to love it eventually, but what’s some of your best advice for using the treadmill as a training tool?
25:00 A lot of people ask me as the coach, “What about the incline?” Do you mess around with the incline or are you planning on doing that during your race?
26:10 In the race, do you plan on switching your speed up or are you just going to set it and forget it? What’s your strategy?
28:10 You’ll be able to see what your competitors are doing in real time, is that right?
28:42 You’re going to be watching the half marathon while you’re racing at the same time?
28:57 After this is all over, what’s next?
31:14 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you started running, what advice would you give?
32:30 What is the greatest gift running has given you?
34:14 Where can listeners connect with you?
34:38 Once again, your race is happening on June 6th at what time?
“We just wanted to make something that was super compelling so that a person who might not normally follow the elite side of the sport can tune in and watch something that’s going to be super exciting, that’s going to be, ‘Hey, these people are going for world records, and they’re racing each other, and look at how close it is, and they’re blowing this record out of the water.’ That’s really what we’re going for with the broadcast.”
“How can we take a sport like elite road racing or ultra running and make it more approachable to a fan who’s engaged as a participant, but doesn’t really follow the elite side of the sport yet?”
“Normally, there’s no reason that a professional runner would try and go run a super hard, fast time on a treadmill. There’s just no incentive there.”
“I’m a very control-freaky kind of person sometimes , and I love to be able to control as much as I can on race day.”
“Every race that I was planning on this year has been canceled at this point, so it’s really just a matter of trying to get creative and trying to find other ways to either put on cool events or find other things that I can get excited about.”
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After hitting her heaviest weight after graduate school, Jay Ell started running. That was almost 10 years ago. She is now the owner and CEO of Black Girls RUN!, a national running organization focused on supporting and encouraging African American women to embrace a healthy and active lifestyle through running. BGR is currently located in 75 cities and 33 states, and with a growing membership of 250K+.
In this episode, Jay Ell discusses with Coach Claire obstacles women of color face with their health and in the running community, BGR member success stories, and how lack of diversity in the recreational running community impacts runner safety, especially in light of the murder of black runner Ahmaud Arbery.
Jay Ell has a passion for creating safe and healthy spaces for women to come together and live their best life through running. She started as a volunteer at Black Girls RUN! eight years ago, and acquired the company in 2018, while also launching the BGR! Foundation with a focus on community engagement and local programming to support a healthy lifestyle in the community.
Jay Ell has her own public relations firm, and her background in public relations has been instrumental in growing the Black Girls RUN! brand. She is also a new children’s book author, and she and her husband, Chris, Sr., are parents to 8-month-old Chris, Jr.
2:53 You are the CEO of Black Girls Run. Can you talk about the organization, how it started, and its mission?
4:43 What are the obstacles black women face when it comes to running?
8:01 How have things changed for the group in the pandemic?
9:52 Is it more of a challenge now for people who feel vulnerable or that running solo isn’t something they’re able to do?
10:40 Do you still see a lot of online engagement with the group?
11:43 What are some success stories and transformations have your members experienced?
13:58 Women of all races are welcome to join in your group runs, but no men allowed. Why is that?
15:43 On a serious note, I would like to get your thoughts on diversity in the running world. With the recent murder of black runner Ahmaud Arbery, it has become glaringly obvious that the running community has a serious diversity issue. Can you expand on this?
17:28 Why do you think there is a lack of diversity below the elite levels?
19:52 Do some of the daughters come with their moms on the runs?
21:35 How important is it that parents set healthy examples for their kids?
22:28 How can the running community as a whole be more inclusive?
23:51 Before this happened, I had never thought to be worried about the safety of the athletes I coach, especially men. But when I asked my athlete, John, a kind, successful runner in his 50s who's also a black man over 6' tall about the case, he told me that he thinks about his survival every time he runs. He takes special precautions to make sure that people don't even see him, like running a 1-mile stretch of a service road over and over again. Do you hear stories like this as well?
26:14 What is the future of Black Girls Run?
27:16 Do you get most of your funding from donations or corporations?
27:55 What advice would you give yourself back when you started running?
29:02 What is the best gift running has given you?
29:56 How can people connect with you?
“We talk about health has to come over beauty. Well, when we spend a lot of money sitting in a hair salon, spend a lot of time in a hair salon, sometimes a run or your health can go on the back burner because you want to preserve what you have on top of your head, the style that you have or get your money’s worth, and so that’s absolutely a real conversation.”
“I think especially in the days that we’re in now where social media and things are definitely much more present, just skin color is still a big issue as well, just kind of running while black. That is a real conversation.”
“We’re finding women, that they’re almost living like a second life. Now they’re traveling more, they’re running to travel, they have this new friend group, they’re losing weight.”
“A runner does not traditionally have to look like a 120-pound white female. It can be all shapes, all sizes, all curves, all colors.”
“I definitely think children, they do see what their parents are doing, so it may not seem like a direct impact, but it’s dropping little gems that they may take away.”
“It doesn’t really dawn on you, sometimes we just take it for granted just to kind of run out our front door and just go for a run and not knowing what everyone else that may be a different walk of life, what they’re dealing with as well.”
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What is it like running in NYC right now during the pandemic? Why is there a performance gap between male and female athletes? How do running injuries differ between men and women? What are some of the issues facing intersex athletes?
Dr. Meghan Bishop is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports-related injuries of the knee, shoulder, and elbow at the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in NYC and Westchester, NY. She graduated at the top of her class at George Washington University Medical School, and completed her residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. She also completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. During her fellowship, Dr. Bishop served as one of the team physicians for the New York Knicks and Iona College.
Dr. Bishop has served as head orthopaedic medical director of the 2019 Philadelphia Marathon as well as volunteer physician at the 2019 USATF outdoor track and field championship meet. She is a former Division I collegiate track and field athlete at the College of William and Mary, and qualified for the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials in February, placing 50th and scoring a PR.
As an avid marathon runner, Dr. Bishop has a special interest in the sports-related injuries of runners and female athletes. In this episode, Coach Claire and Dr. Bishop talk about an article she recently coauthored that was published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery on the biology of sex and sport. This article discusses the effects that sex and biology have on performance, why there’s a gap between male and female performance, if that gap can be narrowed or closed, and advantages of female athletes.
3:02 You are an orthopedic surgeon in NYC. How are things in the city right now? How is running?
4:18 What does an orthopedic surgeon do and how does that relate to running?
6:27 What’s the difference between a general sports-medicine doctor, what you do, and a physical therapist?
8:07 Can you talk a little bit about training at such a high level when you clearly also have a pretty high-level job as well?
9:46 When people ask, “Which specialist should I go to?” the first question should be, “Are you a runner?” Can you talk a little bit about the differences between men and women in performance?
12:00 Why do women do well in long distance events?
13:19 If you took a man who is the exact same size as a woman, the same height, the same weight, they still would perform differently. Is that what you’re saying?
13:51 So it’s not just testosterone. If it’s not just testosterone, it’s more complicated than that. Is that correct?
15:39 Do we know why women are more susceptible to those types of injuries?
16:15 You mentioned the shoulder injuries, that they’re more likely in women because you said their ligaments are stretchier. Can you explain that a little bit?
16:59 I’ve definitely seen some studies where you look at the marathon and women seem to slow less in the marathon than men. Is that due to the fatigue resistance or we’re just better strategists?
19:36 On the one hand you want everybody to be able to compete no matter who they are and what their genetic makeup is, but on the other hand, if you’re a female runner and competing against someone who is genetically more male, that gets very challenging if males are 10% faster, better, stronger than us, it’s tough on all sides. I don’t think there is an easy answer for this one.
20:55 It seems like forcing her to take any kind of drugs, that just doesn’t feel right either, so hopefully it’s going to evolve as we go forward as more intersex athletes rise to the high level, I would assume?
21:35 What things could we as women work on to close that gap? Do you think that it’s a possibility that the 10% could shrink in the future, or is this just, this is our biology, this is what we’re stuck with?
22:27 World records seem to be dropping all the time, so you kind of hope the gap would drop too, but maybe not.
22:47 You wore the Nike shoes for the trials, right? How did they work out for you?
23:25 What I’m hearing a lot is that recovery is so much better because they are so cushioned, you don’t pound your legs quite as much and you’re able to walk normally a little quicker after the marathon. Did you find that as well?
24:15 What advice would you give yourself back when you started running?
25:15 What are your favorite strength training exercises for runners?
25:42 What is the best gift running has given you?
26:50 Are you getting in some socially distant running?
27:09 How can people connect with you?
28:00 How do telehealth visits work?
“Taking care of a runner really is a multidisciplinary thing. It’s a big group involved with it.”
“Females, I think, in general, are just really tough, but that’s not the biological reason.”
“If you look at the trials this year, over 500 women qualified versus 260 men. I don’t know if that has anything to do with differences in biology, but it’s definitely a big factor that you can see there.”
“Recently, we’ve done a lot more sex-specific reporting and we’ve learned that females and males get injured differently too.”
“That’s one of the reasons I wanted to look into writing the paper recently, because I wanted to look at why performance was different between males and females, and you can see there’s a number of reasons why males have this consistent 10% performance gap over females.”
“Definitely for the fairness of sport, I think that we need to have a fair solution really for everyone, and especially for the female athletes that just don’t have that advantage over other people.”
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Nick is the editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine and former editor of newyorker.com. He’s a contributor to CBS News, CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, and he’s interviewed just about every major tech company CEO out there. Nick is also a fast marathon runner who in 2019, was ranked as one of the top 30 Masters marathoners in the world after clocking a 2:29 in the Chicago Marathon, a personal best he achieved in his 40s.
In this episode, Coach Claire talks to Nick about how he broke through his marathon pace plateau and psychological barriers by changing his technology, his workouts, as well as getting some surprise coaching assistance from Nike. But more than just going deep into the tools, techniques, and training tweaks he made, Nick talks about how his journey with the marathon started and how it’s inextricably entwined with his childhood, his relationship with his complicated father, and how he now sees himself.
It’s not easy to run faster later in life, but Nick’s story shows that it is absolutely possible. It takes a combination of many things including better training, better technology, as well as “belief and want”, to dramatically change your results, even if you're in your 40s or beyond.
2:22 You’re in New York City. Are you still run-commuting to work or are you mostly at home these days?
2:56 Can you explain how your father both inspired you and how you also didn’t want to follow in his footsteps?
5:27 In your 40s, the experts at Nike came up to you and asked if they could help you get better. Can you talk a little bit about that experience?
9:12 With all the changes, there’s so many variables, you can’t really attribute any one thing to your success, but do you think it’s just a combination of all the things you mentioned or is there something that stands out as, “Yes, this helped me get faster?”
14:19 Maybe in your 30s, you just didn’t believe it or you didn’t want it as much as you want it now. Could it be something like that?
16:25 What changed between not knowing your pace / effort when you were younger and now monitoring your heart-rate?
18:30 I wrote down a quote from one of your articles that you wrote. “The quantified self is often a neurotic soul.” And that could pretty much describe most runners. So how do you balance that? All the tech is awesome, but doesn’t it make you a little crazy?
20:28 How do you deal with the what ifs?
25:20 What is your feeling on this? What is the allure of the marathon distance?
26:43 You’re not in New York right now but you used to commute, and I would love to talk about run-commuting. Can you give me some tips about run commuting and how to do it for someone who’s thinking about it?
30:44 Assuming races are going on, are you planning on doing Chicago, or something else?
32:11 What advice would you give yourself back when you started running?
34:25 What is the best gift running has given you?
35:24 How can people connect with you?
“I think that running very fast both improves musculature and helps me psychologically.”
“Having a consistent heart rate monitor, and I used one on my arm, giving me constant feedback of not just feel but how fast I was going, was incredibly helpful, both in helping me sort of adjudicate workouts, and two, pacing in the marathons.”
“There had to be kind of a psychological intervention, which I think happened with the new training, the new coaching, the new workouts, that got me subconsciously to accept that my ambition wasn’t just to run as fast as I’d run before I got sick, but that I could go faster.”
“I feel like the heart rate monitor gives you assurance; the watch gives you fear.”
“One of the issues I have as a runner, and I’m sure you have and others have, is that it’s a hobby. I don’t make any money off this.”
“The perfect Nicholas Thompson, perfectly trained, what is his actual top marathon performance? Could I have made the Olympic trials? Probably.”
“I think what has made success late in life possible is failure early in life.”
“One of the things I think I’ve done a good job at is making my training efficient. And the way I’ve made my training efficient is I run to work; I run home from work.”
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