{"podcast":{"title":"Back of the Pack Podcast","slug":"back-of-the-pack-podcast-5326207","podcast_index_feed_id":5326207,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5474889/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.botppod.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f9d8e4cc10cc014653b3595336db5c08.jpg","author":"The Back of the Pack Podcast LLC.","episode_count":305,"summary":"Lace up your sneakers, grab your favorite headband, and toe the starting line! The signal has fired and the “Back of the Pack Podcast” is up and running! Are you a fan of running 5k’s just because the finisher medal looks cool? You are not alone there! Join the show that is all about the race swag and running on a Saturday morning to get the most out of your race registration. We will talk about local races in the Kansas City area. We will give you a heads up if you’re wanting to go farther outside the area to run the big races. Host Kyle Walker has fourteen full marathons, over eighty half marathons, and hundreds of 5k’s and 10k's. Take it from us, you are among friends here if you’ve gotten to the finish line to find all the bananas gone!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-05T00:20:30.363124+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-of-the-pack-podcast-5326207"},"episode":{"title":"The Final Stretch: Trust What You Built","slug":"the-final-stretch-trust-what-you-built","published_at":"2026-08-21T13:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-of-the-pack-podcast-5326207/the-final-stretch-trust-what-you-built","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-of-the-pack-podcast-5326207","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-final-stretch-trust-what-you-built--74401552","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74401552/08_21_2026_wall_audio.mp3","summary":"With the TCS Sydney Marathon now just nine days away, **The Final Stretch** reaches the point where the heavy training is finished and the challenge becomes learning to **Trust What You Built**. At this stage, there is very little we can do physically to dramatically change race-day fitness, but there is still plenty our brains can do to completely sabotage it. We dig into taper brain, the strange urge to question everything we have done, and why one ugly workout or bad race somehow gets more attention than weeks of solid work. Instead of replaying the blooper reel, we look at the evidence already in the bank, from miles and races completed to heat training, fueling practice, experience, and the ability to keep moving when things get difficult. We also ask the uncomfortable but important question: **what did this training cycle actually build**, whether that is PR fitness, goal-time fitness, survival fitness, or simply enough to fight our way to the finish? From there, we break down A, B, and C race goals and why changing the plan when conditions change does not mean abandoning the mission. Whether this is marathon number one or marathon number seventeen, the goal now is to stop borrowing somebody else’s confidence crisis, prepare for the bad miles, and trust that we have enough tools to solve the problems race day throws at us. The work does not have to be perfect to be valuable, and with Sydney almost here, it is time to stop negotiating with the past and give race day the chance to show us what we built.","meta_description":"With the TCS Sydney Marathon now just nine days away, **The Final Stretch** reaches the point where the heavy training is finished and the challenge becom…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2619,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/back-of-the-pack-podcast-5326207/episodes/the-final-stretch-trust-what-you-built/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-of-the-pack-podcast-5326207/the-final-stretch-trust-what-you-built.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}