{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61bb951645cc6900145d924a/683b5b202780b226c7fb2955?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 245 | Simon Freeman and Mario Fraioli on \"Peak Running,\" Event Hype, and Fundamentals Over Fads","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61bb951645cc6900145d924a/1748719797852-ff629b09-e4ca-4ba1-aac0-09affcc04a54.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>I recently sat down with my good friend and&nbsp;<a href=\"https://themorningshakeout.com/tag/simon-freeman/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">frequent podcast guest Simon Freeman</a>, the co-founder and publisher of my favorite running magazine,&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.likethewindmagazine.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Like The Wind</em></a>, for our second quarterly conversation of 2025, which you can listen to wherever you get&nbsp;<em>the morning shakeout&nbsp;</em>podcast. An excerpt of this exchange can be found in Issue #45 of&nbsp;<em>LtW</em>, which comes out this week. (You can buy a copy or subscribe&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.likethewindmagazine.com/product-category/magazines/issues/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)</p><p>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.</p><p>Click <a href=\"https://themorningshakeout.com/episode-245-simon-freeman-and-mario-fraioli/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for complete show notes and <a href=\"https://themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here</a> to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday.</p><p><em>Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by </em><a href=\"http://baresrecords.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>John Summerford</em></a><em>.</em></p>","author_name":"Mario Fraioli"}