Andrea Hudson is a 63 year old runner and family nurse practitioner. In this conversation we discuss how she was able to bring her marathon times down from close to 5 hours to a new PB of 3:33, at the 2022 Berlin Marathon.
Andrea has been a member of our Personal Best running coaching program since 2020. To find out more about our running coaching program, go to PBprogram.com
Watch the full video on my YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/LC3Y64lK1TI
I hope you enjoy my conversation with Andrea Hudson.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Andrea and Floris intros
- 02:45 Group running
- 04:58 Andrea’s running journey
- 14:35 Low heart rate training and race improvements
- 19:52 Marathon Majors and training cycle going in
- 26:52 Race day strategy: Berlin Marathon
- 29:59 Sickness on race day! (London Marathon)
- 36:10 When it gets tough in the marathon
- 37:29 Mistakes runners make
- 38:11 Adventures in CGM’s (Continuous Glucose Monitor) and how we eat
- 41:48 Recommendations for starting out with low heart rate training
- 43:49 Reducing stress, visualisation, embracing the weather
- 47:13 Recovery, brutal foot massage
- 51:01 What’s next? Goals!
- 55:18 Closing thoughts
- 56:58 Outro Floris
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