Final Surge Podcast

Episode 150: Welcome to episode 150 of the Final Surge Podcast where coach and podcast host Jonathan Marcus joins us to talk about speed. In episode 145 we had Tony Holler on to talk about Feed The Cats and developing speed. Today Jonathan Marcus joins us to discuss how exactly to implement that for endurance athletes.    :57 What is new with Jonathan Marcus in the last two years? 3:58 Did you just take on too much? 7:00 You put out a tweet last August that caused a lot of uproar.. It is impossible to teach an athlete to ‘run fast when tired.’ The very nature of being in a state of fatigue negates the ability to run fast — the skill of speed is only learned when fresh. Therefore, doing a tempo run followed by ‘fast’ 200s is, in fact, a useless exercise.    9:00 If you take a body and put it through stress then allow it proper recovery time doesn't it make the body stronger? 12:04 I guess it depends on some factors like the workload, doesn't it depend on the extent of the tempo run? 17:03 We are talking about