#55: Race Faster By Training Slower, with 2:49 Marathoner Astrid Feyer | MAF Training

Astrid Feyer is a 47-year-old mother of two, currently living in Australia. She has experienced her fair share of injuries and discovered MAF low heart rate training, as a way to ease back into training and gradually increase training volume. In 2020, she joined my Personal Best running coaching program (https://www.pbprogram.com/) and it has been really exciting to follow her running journey over the last few years. At the recent London Marathon, Astrid ran a 2:49 finishing time which was a Personal Best and she was also able to achieve 3rd place in her age category. In this interview we discuss being a working, busy mother and getting the training volume in, about a running journey which comes full circle, through injury, MAF training and exceeds a long-held PB! Watch the full video on my YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/yCrFBO80q_E

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro Astrid Feyer
3:48 How it all started, running journey
9:10 Run camp trip Stellenbosch (South Africa)
12:04 No pain no gain, knee operations
13:12 Move to Australia, running and racing again
18:14 Sub 3-hour marathon goal
19:43 A new physio and Maffetone's Big Yellow Book
22:02 Personal Best program, MAF training
25:57 Back to racing, chasing sub 2 hours 50 minutes
31:52 Virtual London Marathon
33:31 Marathon training and preparation
37:47 MAF test updates
39:49 Training volume and parenting
42:54 London, for real!
47:49 Meeting one of your heroes
50:22 Tips for runners
51:12 New York Marathon
52:59 Activities while injured
54:52 Nutrition and high training volume
56:31 Outro

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