Chronic Blisters, HR vs RPE, & The Truth About Marathon Long Runs

This week on the Marathon Handbook Podcast, Michael Doyle, Alex Cyr, and Katelyn Tocci tackle a stacked mailbag of running questions covering race-day super shoes, chronic blisters, heart rate confusion, and exactly how long your longest training run should be before marathon day.

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00:00 Intro: Alex's wedding vs. Canada's World Cup game08:08 Send us your questions09:51 Momentous Creatine (sponsor)12:00 Should you train in your race-day super shoes?20:56 Best shoe to break 20 minutes in the 5K26:30 Should you pause your watch during interval recoveries?35:22 Rhythm Health blood testing (sponsor)37:48 Urgent Shoe Stress: fixing chronic blisters47:43 Chinese running shoe brands: Xtep, Li-Ning, Anta58:30 Is my marathon heart rate too high?1:07:00 Heart rate vs. RPE for easy runs1:16:19 How long should your longest long run be?1:26:11 Run Club, merch, and what's coming next week