Femmi Pod Lydia O'Donnell

This week we have a very exciting guest, all the way from the uk, the one and only Phily Bowden. Phily is a content creator, running coach and 2.29 marathoner, representing both England and the UK on the global stage. Not only is Phily an elite athlete, she is also incredibly relatable to all runners of all abilities. During this conversation we dive into the behind the scenes of one of the biggest and best running personalities online.
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We are two weeks out from race day at Rotorua Marathon. In this episode we dive into our training as we start to wind down for the big race. We then dive into a conversation about balancing your health and performance at the same time, and why, in fact, it is beneficial to do so.
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In this episode we dive deep into our Rotorua Marathon training builds, with Lydia training toward the 42.2km and Esther toward the 10km. We chat through how interruptions in training can affect your confidence and how to overcome these, alongside what to prioritise in training if you have to deload slightly.
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As we wrap up Women's History Month, this week on the Femmi Pod we are joined by the incredible Kathrine Switzer, who made history as one of the first women to run the Boston marathon in 1967. At that time women running marathons was unheard of. While running the marathon the race director approached Kathrine with anger and attempted to pull her off the course. Kathrine not only went on to complete the Boston marathon in 1967, she went on to complete 40 marathons since, including winning the NYC marathon in 1974. Kathrine has been a huge advocate for women's running ever since, founding ‘261 Fearless’ a global womens running network - empowering women to run, something we are obviously also so passionate about at Femmi.
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In this episode we chat to the incredible Elliott Heath. Elliott resides in Portland, Oregon and is both a Bowerman Track Club Coach (one of Nike’s premier running clubs) and a Nike Running Footwear Product Manager. Elliott oversees the racing portfolio across track, field and road models. Prior to his role in Nike Footwear, Elliott was an all-American collegiate middle distance runner and a professional Nike running athlete. Throughout this conversation we speak to Elliott about how Nike continues to push the boundaries of innovation, we get into the details of the new Nike Alpha Fly 3s and speak about the importance of running communities.
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In this episode we do something a little different and play a game of 'Would you rather?' but a women's running edition. We also get you up to speed with all things Femmi, work and our training as we head toward the Rotorua Marathon 2024.
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