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In this episode I talk to one of my colleagues and a super fast runner, Suneel Kumar Koyi. His active lifestyle started like most of us with a regular health checkup revealing alarmingly high triglycerides over a decade ago. He took up to running to improve his health and start running mostly on the weekends. From finishing his first half marathon in 2:24 mins and from not finishing his first full marathon and ending up getting back to start in an ambulance, Suneel has come a long way in the last 10 years of his running journey. He is now a 1:21 Half Marathoner and a 2:51 minute Full marathoner. In this episode he shares what has helped him in his running progression and what are the mistakes new runners need to avoid. He shares his training methods, race pacing and nutrition strategies that worked for him. It was a really insightful interaction with a humble and hardworking working athlete. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.      

0:00:00  Intro

0:05:10  How Triglycerides got him into running

0:09:20  His first Half Marathon 2:24

0:11:45  His progression in HM

0:15:20  Ending up in an ambulance and DNFing his first Marathon

0:18:30  Bangalore Ultra, first 50k experience

0:23:35  His first successful Marathon at TMM

0:26:50  Breakthrough year for him, Covid  

0:31:30  Strength training for running and how it helped

0:36:20  Running a 2:51 Marathon at Tata Mumbai Marathon 2024

0:38:45  Pacing for Half Marathon vs Full Marathon

0:40:50  Fueling for Half Marathon vs Full Marathon

0:42:20  Qualifying for and racing at Boston Marathon(2:57)

0:50:50  Key workouts and training in a marathon cycle

0:55:25  Tips for working athletes

0:57:20  Closing

About the Podcast

The working athlete podcast is a podcast with and for working athletes from all walks of life and various sports. The goal is to provide inspiration, training tips, mental hacks, time management and life-style advice through conversations with some of the best in sport, from athletes to coaches. If you think you can benefit from this, please consider subscribing so that you don't miss the weekly episodes in future.

Who is a working athlete? Someone working fulltime/part-time, entrepreneur or anyone who has to work to make ends meet and doesn't let being busy to stop him/her from pursuing an active lifestyle is a working athlete. I consider stay at home moms/dads who pursue a sport, as working athletes because homemaking is a full-time job.

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