The Endurance Drive Podcast

Fresh off a summer in Paris with Team USA, Mac Morse joins Katie and Elena this week to share her perspectives and wisdom gained from a career working in athlete development with the best of the best. We cover Mac’s own career as an elite athlete, her entrepreneurial path to creating The Sideline Perspective—a platform for injured and retired athletes to find support and community—and her current role in Athlete Development with the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee. We dive deeper into the business of sport and how we can unpack the nuances of its impact through owning our narratives, both internally and externally. And we get a bonus treat of her poetry! This episode is about humanizing all athletes, from the recreational runners to the Olympic champions, and it isn’t one to be missed! Check out The Sideline Perspective on Instagram, online, or through their podcast! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use this form or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

In this week's episode, we are bringing it back to basics with Intervals 101. We cover what intervals are (and what they are not), why do intervals, when to start doing intervals, how to determine what intervals are appropriate for you, basic considerations and mistakes with intervals, and examples of a basic interval progression in our programming. We also cover lots of fun coaching and training insights related to the off season, using repetition as a way to track progress, overcoming workout anxiety, positive mindset tools, defining race goals, the magic of high-carb fueling, and more. We had so much fun with this episode—check it out! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use this form or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

In this week's episode, Katie and Elena chat about a bunch of different topics that have featured in both of our lives in recent months, including highs and lows in training, health struggles as an athlete, and the idea of going "all in" on something you love. We specifically dig into Elena's decision to start and DNF the Lavaredo Ultra Trail in the Italian Dolomites, important insights she has picked up about health and fueling in the last several months, and an exciting next chapter of focusing on endurance training and coaching as a primary career objective. We hope this episode is relatable for listeners out there going through the ups and downs of training and life, and we close with an important lesson: when you commit, magical things happen! Check it out. View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

In this week’s party episode, we are welcoming all four coaches (Jim, Katie, Kevin, and Elena) onto the podcast for the first time ever to share their tips and tricks for how to crush a fall marathon or half marathon coming off a summer triathlon season. We hear about why marathoning is so hard on the body, how to structure a marathon or half marathon training week, favorite workouts for marathon and half marathon, mental training for long runs and races, and lots more. Jim and Katie also cover some fun coaching and training insights including season planning tips for 2025, aging and endurance sports, the magic of no-watch swimming, what happens when our training priorities or values come into conflict with each other, and a deep dive on a new paper covering principles of Norwegian endurance training. This episode is jam-packed full of something for everyone. Enjoy! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

The main topic of this week's episode is why the off-season may actually be the most important season of all. We discuss what chronic stress does to our bodies, how to shift our training focus from fitness to wellness, the magic of Zone 1, three levels of recovery and their varied time horizons, what happens if you don't respect the off-season, and a whole lot more. We also share additional insights from Ironman Lake Placid and Sea to Summit, answer a great listener question about how to get into triathlon as a brand-new beginner, and introduce two new sort-of-joking segments that seem to come up in every single one of our podcasts: the "Ironman is hard" segment and the "eat our words" segment. Enjoy! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

In our second ~emergency podcast episode~ of 2024, Elena catches up with Katie about the Sea to Summit Triathlon, where Katie came back from a 20+ minute deficit after taking a wrong turn on the bike course to run down five women on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail and finish first on top of Mt. Washington with a run course record. We chat through her uncertain road to the starting line, racing under pressure and strategies for taking pressure off, the importance of cultivating your own performance bubble, focusing on process goals over outcome goals, perfecting the “car door pee,” and effective mental strategies, among other topics. This episode is full of clichés that somehow all proved to be true for Katie on race day. The biggest ones? You can be down but never out of the fight; don’t give up; believe in yourself; and no one runs the Whites off the bike like Katie Clayton runs the Whites off the bike. Check it out! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠⁠⁠⁠this form⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

In this week’s episode, we go over key takeaways from the 25th iteration of Ironman Lake Placid, where Katie was on course all day as a spectator and coach rather than a racer and where a dozen brave Endurance Drive athletes toed the line. Sub-topics include: creating a performance bubble, avoiding high LSS on the day before the race, chaotic swims, fueling and hydration insights, digging deep when the day becomes more mental than physical, and more. We also get an update on how recovery is going for Jim at 12 weeks post bike crash, share insights related to tapering and post-race blues, and a whole lot more. Check it out! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠⁠⁠this form⁠⁠⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

Thanks to our awesome listeners, we were able to build out an entire episode worth of content requested by our community! We skip a single big topic in favor of a medium-dive on a bunch of really awesome ones: a six-step emotional regulation strategy to use when workouts feel rough; how to distinguish between training fatigue and "deeper" fatigue; more examples of mental work in practice; how to crush Ironman and 70.3 spectating; our favorite endurance adventures in New England; when to get a TT bike and what to be thinking about; tips for dealing with plantar fasciitis pain; and a whole lot more! Check it out. View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠⁠this form⁠⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

In this week's episode, we asked our community to tell us about their best and worst race days—what happened, what factors led to success or failure, and what lessons they learned. We then mixed in a bunch of our good and bad race day stories to come up with an episode that's full of actionable information about how you can approach racing, as well as a lot of laughs as we dig back through the racing archives. We also share coaching and training insights and answer listener questions related to mishaps on race sims, mental strategies for racing, bike care and maintenance, FTP in racing, and a whole lot more. Check it out! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use ⁠this form⁠ or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.

This week's episode covers a lot of fun topics! First up is a recap of lessons and insights from the Cohasset Triathlon, Katie's first race of 2024. We then cover more insights from Jim related to active recovery principles, swim technique, dual-sided power meters, and bike fitting. Our main content is a deep dive on some of our favorite workouts for Ironman and 70.3 in the Endurance Drive library, including paddles and buoy sets, low cadence Zwift climbing, 10" max sprints, and more, which we hope will be useful for our athletes to understand the intention of the workout and for our other listeners to try out some new sessions in their own programming. Enjoy the listen! View extended show notes for this episode here. To share feedback or ask questions to be featured on a future podcast, use this form or email: Katie@TheEnduranceDrive.com.