Rory Linkletter

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Perhaps Rory Linkletter is running.

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He was great to talk to.

We go through his transition from being self-coached to now working with one of the best runners in the world as his coach with Olympian Rory Linkletter.

Again, Griff was awesome to talk to.

I think there's going to be a lot that people can take out of this episode.

But after talking with her, I was really inspired by her training and her story.

And I think it was like a month later, she started working for Rory Linkletter under Let's Tango Running Group.

And I was like, she's coaching now with Rory.

I wonder if she'll coach me.

So, oh, also in this build, I wanted to talk a little bit about my fueling.

I've been using Blank's Sports Nutrition, not a sponsor of this podcast.

It was just, I know Rory Linkletter uses it.

And so I decided to try it.

It's a straight shot and people go crazy there.

Yeah, I was listening to Rory talk about, Rory Linkletter talk about the, he thinks, I think he believed that he went a little too aggressive going down that and kind of burned too many matches there going down that hill because it's just easy to get going.

And then they mentioned that it goes into that kind of lonely stress there.

But it's going to be really interesting.

It's like...

I forget who was talking about this.

It might have been Streak, but was saying that Rory worked out with Almgren a while ago, and they were doing K-reps or something like that, and like... you know, I'm not a big lactate guy, but they were doing the, the readings and Rory's was whatever it was four or five.

And Almgren's was like 1.5. And it's like, Rory's Rory's one of the best marathoners in the world.

But the word out of Flagstaff.

Thanks, Rory Linkletter.

I'll out my source there.

The dude's been running like 145 miles a week and that there are some days where he's running more than 20 miles of work in a single day faster than marathon pace.

I'm over in Valencia, Spain.

I have the Valencia Half Marathon this weekend and Rory is plugging away before he comes to Valencia for the marathon in six weeks time.

He's back in Flagstaff.

So yeah, how's it going Rory? It's going good.

25 hours apart is a weird way of putting that.

Yeah, it took me 25 hours to get here.

slow.

I think understandable is the key word there because that's, yeah, I've read through it like three times.

You need that big foundation.

And I don't know if it was Rory Linkletter or another one of the guys that I ran with in college would kind of say, like, you know, you're looking at your last two years.

You're not looking at what you've done the 12 weeks leading into your race.

You're looking at the last two years.

Like there is a maximum number of athletes that the IOC plans for.

at these games and so I was texting Rory Linkletter about all this stuff this morning because you know he posted on his Instagram story he's like I have some thoughts on this and I was like alright I want to hear it so I texted him and then he basically said the same exact thing because I was like you know it is funny in the sense that this is the one event contested on the roads where you have all this open space is the one that we're really kind of, you know, keeping to a tight number.

And it's, you know, because of the village beds.

And then I just said to him, I was like, this is why we need to eliminate break dancing, more marathoners, less joke sports.

So we decided, um, instead of going out for a 2:22, I'd go out on 2:23 pace.

I had, uh, Rory Linkletter, who's a fellow Puma athlete, pacing me.

And he did an amazing job and did everything that he could in his power [laughs] to get me to a 2:23.

But, uh, somewhere around 20 to 21, where things tend to get hard in a marathon, it did get hard, and my legs just weren't able to hold that pace anymore.