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Episode 245 | Simon Freeman and Mario Fraioli on "Peak Running," Event Hype, and Fundamentals Over Fads

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the morning shakeout podcast
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May 31, 2025
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Summary

I recently sat down with my good friend and  frequent podcast guest Simon Freeman , the co-founder and publisher of my favorite running magazine,  Like The Wind , for our second quarterly conversation of 2025, which you can listen to wherever you get  the morning shakeout  podcast. An excerpt of this exchange can be found in Issue #45 of  LtW , which comes out this week. (You can buy a copy or subscribe  here .) In this episode we discuss the idea of "peak running," the seemingly ever-growing hype around events, fundamentals over fads in training, why chasing optimization is a fool's errand, and a lot more. Click here for complete show notes and sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday. Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.