In the Red: Understanding the difference between normal training fatigue and energy deficiency
Kumsa Yuya spent years believing that his chronic fatigue and frequent illnesses were simply the cost of training hard for his marathon goal...
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Thomas Nobbs's 20-year journey to a 2:09 marathon
For someone who has yet to reach his 27th birthday, Thomas Nobbs has already spent a lifetime in the world of competitive running. Since joi...
Sadé McCreath: Canada's fastest woman went from nearly quitting to a national record
For most of the past 40 years, the Canadian record in the women’s 100m remained stagnant, hovering right under the 11 second barrier and mov...
Iron-clad your training: the critical mineral runners need to perform at their best
For many athletes, especially in the world of endurance sport, the exhaustion that follows a hard effort is part of the reward for the train...
Is HYROX the future of endurance training? World Champion Madelyn Eybergen thinks so
A few months ago, Madelyn Eybergen joined this show as Canada's university cross-country champion. Today, she's back as a world champion, bu...
For multi-time champ Kelsey Hogan, Quebec Mega Trail is a race like no other
For all of Canada’s incredible venues for trail racing, none captures the attention of the running world quite so much as the famed Quebec M...
The Peak beyond the podium: Barkley finisher & mental performance coach Nickademus de la Rosa on escaping a performance-based identity
Nickademus de la Rosa is no stranger to mountaintops, of both the literal and metaphorical variety. For much of the 2010s he was at the top...
The Rundown: all the storylines you need to know for this year's Canadian track & field championships
The 2026 Canadian track & field championships are underway from Ottawa and The Shakeout Podcast team brings you all the storylines you need...
Stop paying for pricey pee: What electrolyte companies don't want you to know about hydration
A quick scan of a pre-race warmup area and you’ll see a rainbow array of brightly coloured drink mixes filling the bottles, beakers, and hyd...
Evan Jager: An Olympic medallist, a Swedish startup and the super supplement that's sweeping endurance sport
Weeks after retiring from one of the greatest professional running careers in a generation, Evan Jager found himself inside a Swedish lab te...
Debriefing the debut: My post-marathon recap with Coach Jonathan Green
This week on the Shakeout Podcast host John Gay is joined by his coach Jonathan Green of Verde Track Club to breakdown the 2026 Ottawa Marat...
Canadian cancer survivor's journey to the Ottawa Marathon
For his entire adult life, Olivier Duhaime has been no stranger to taking on hard challenges. Running his first marathon at just 18 years ol...
After the marathon: How to recover like a Pro ft. Rory Linkletter and Jacob Thomson
It’s the middle of May and if you’re a marathon runner chances are that means one of two things for you: either entering the final weeks, da...
The shoe that went sub-2: The science of super shoes with Dr. Shalaya Kipp
Every sport has had its watershed moment when a new technology upends the landscape and redefines what’s possible. Baseball had torpedo bats...
Keen on trail running: shoe designer Scott Robertson wants you to get lost
For shoe designers, bringing a new model to market is always an uphill battle, but when that model is your first foray into the running shoe...
How national record holder Kieran Lumb embodies the Norwegian method
Perhaps it comes with the territory for someone with a degree in electrical engineering, but Kieran Lumb has never shied away from exploring...
Boston Marathon preview with Canadian Olympian Ben Preisner
Ben Preisner may be the 3rd fastest Canadian of all time over the marathon distance, but when he toes the line on Marathon Monday in Boston...
World Champ Christopher Morales Williams keeps levelling up
When Christopher Morales Williams ran his personal best in the indoor 400m in 2024 he became the first–and only–man in history to dip under...
Sport science writer Alex Hutchinson digs into runnings high-carb craze
The pre-race carb-load is a right of passage in the sport of distance running, but in recent years runners’ obsession with carbohydrates has...
Master your next marathon with Olympian Dylan Wykes
With Spring around the corner, Canada Geese aren’t the only animals reappearing along the park paths and greenspaces of Canadian cities. The...