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Are champions born or made? This week, my wife Erica and I led our high school track and field team to an undefeated dual meet season and the title of Division Champions. From day one of practice, we worked hard to establish a winning culture on our team. We instilled the Habits of Champions into our athletes.

What makes a champion? How can you embody the habits of champions and become one too?

What constitutes a healthy and supportive diet for distance runners? What vitamins and minerals should you pay the most attention to for long-term health and optimal performance? If you want to become the best runner you can be, you must prioritize proper nutrition.

In this episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, Coach Chris shares the importance of staying active throughout the holiday season, challenges you to get outside every day during this time, and gives an update on his spring racing schedule and what he is doing differently to get faster in 2023.

In this episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, Coach Chris outlines how you can learn from what worked and what didn’t this past year, and build upon it in 2023. It’s time to plan out your perfect spring marathon season and get started training!

In this episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, Coach Chris answers listener questions on mastering the marathon taper. He explains the philosophy of the six phases of marathon training, with a focus on base building. Whether your goal race is just a couple of weeks away or you are just getting started with marathon training, this episode will teach you how to best mentally and physically prepare for the journey ahead.

In this episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, Coach Chris shares how to best warm up for your Turkey Trot 5K to ensure you run your best race, answers your treadmill running questions, and gives details on how you can join us at the next Knighton Runs team race!

Kristy Baumann is a Registered Dietitian who helps runners learn how to fuel properly to support their training and have a healthy relationship with food. She is on a mission to spread the message that restricting food and following fad diets is not the answer. Having a positive relationship with food is the foundation of fueling well as a runner. In this episode, we discuss the importance of developing a positive relationship around food while marathon training and get answers to specific nutrition and diet questions from The Knighton Lions.

While there are many different ways to train, there are a bunch of “running rules” that are widely held as gospel. Concepts like following strict-polarized training (i.e., take your easy days easy and your hard days hard) and the utmost importance of the long run for marathoners are widely promoted as “the right way to train” to train.  Are these dogmas 100% true? Or is the best way to train actually more grey than it is black and white? In today’s episode, coaches Chris Knighton and Sara Manderscheid debate these running dogmas and set the message straight.

What rules have you put in place to support your running? In this episode, Coach Chris shares the 10 Running Rules to Live By from his book Run Faster Marathons: The Proven Path to PR.

What can adult marathon runners learn from the experiences of high school cross country and track & field team training? Good high school training programs put a large focus on learning the skills of efficient running movement patterns, performing supplemental exercises to support your running, competing as a team sport vs running as an individual sport, progressing from short to long events, and much more. These are all aspects of training that high schoolers develop to become better athletes, but adults usually don’t prioritize these components of running.

Join Coach Chris Knighton and Tucker Grose, cross country and track coach at Stargate High School in Thorton Colorado, and coach of adult distance runners at “Training with Tucker” for a conversation on “What can adult marathoners learn from high school runners?”