The Higher Running Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode Higher Running coaches Sandi Nypaver and Sage Canaday define what "Individual and Personalized Run Coaching" means at Higher Running. They outline their process for taking on new coaching clients, variables to consider with cost and degree of creating custom training plans from scratch, open communication and transparency, and monthly price point as well as limits for the number of athletes being coached at one time. They also discuss how other coaches may view this differently. Tune in to find out more!

In this episode coach Sandi and coach Sage give a brief update to their training and racing for the start of 2024 and then dive into a discussion around the concept of what an "Influencer" is and how that may or may not compare to that of a "Pro Sponsored Athlete" given the social media landscapes and perceptions of today. 

In this episode Sandi and I are joined by special guests Joey Wilson and Jason Edwards who are the founders and creators of Tracer! Tracer is a new coaching platform that Higher Running has started working with to create dynamic running programs. It utilizes AI technology and extensive data inputs to guide and empower runners with the coaching philosophy and methods of world-class coaches. Joey and Jason provide some context with how Tracer came about, what athletes can expect exactly, and what AI means for coaching heading into the future!  For more information please visit: https://www.tracerfitness.com/ and follow @tracer_fitness

Coach Sandi Nypaver and Coach Sage Canaday of Higher Running talk about ways to access the validity of scientific studies and what it means in terms of bias, the strength of results, methods, and how misleading even peer-reviewed science can be! In the second part of the talk they discuss "Double Threshold" Training and its implications in terms of running performance, lifestyle and injury risk. 

In this Higher Wanderings episode, coach and therapist Ray Nypaver joins coach Sandi Nypaver to talk about how runners can use running challenges for their personal growth. They also discuss healing holistically from running injuries and dive into what their own injuries brought up for them.

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Coach Sandi Nypaver and Coach Sage Canaday from Higher Running talk about Running Economy and how it plays a role in ultra marathon running races.  They cite some specific scientific studies and explain how the demands of long distance races can be trained for using this data as well as a mix of training and racing variables.