The Power and Importance of Consistency w/ Coach Simone

In this month's Instagram Live Replay edition of the Next Level Running Podcast Coach Simone Plourde joins Will Benitez to talk about the power and importance of consistency! Coach Simone is one of our newest coaches here at RunDoyen! She currently runs professionally for Nike and believes in the power of the day-to-day! In this episode she talks about how consistency is key! 

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Transcript

Jacob Phillips 0:17

This is the Next Level Running Podcast brought to you by the expert coaches that run Doya, helping runners of all levels trust their goals on racing by matching it with the perfect coach for training plan. Hello, and welcome to this month's episode of the Next Level Running Podcast. I'm your host, Jacob Phillips, and we are back with our Instagram live replay. Coach Will Benitez comes to you live each month with a special Run Doyan coach, and they talk about different topics. And so this month, Coach Will brought on Simone Plord. She is a professional runner for Nike, and she is a new coach here at Run Doyan. And they talk through uh the power of consistency, the importance of consistency in training, and how Coach Simone leverages that consistency. A little bit about Coach Simone. She understands the importance importance of discipline over motivation. She believes that anyone can lace up their shoes and step outside for a run with discipline every single day. She enjoys the process rather focusing on the end goal. So she is a coach that focuses on the day-to-day, focuses on the process. That's what they talk about tonight when they talk about the importance of consistency. As usual, Coach Will does a great job of leading the conversation. And before we jump in, I want to point you to the show notes below. I will have Coach Will's contact information as well as his Instagram account on Pace Wellness. He is our uh Rundoyan nutritionist. If you're looking to crush your nutrition goals, Coach Will can help you. I'll also have Coach Simone's contact info. If you're looking for a coach to help you crush your running goals, uh let Simone guide you. Anyhow, I'll have that in the show notes. I also have the link to our uh at Rundoyan Instagram account. Click that follow button. That way you can be notified when these Instagram live events go live and you can join the conversation. If Instagram's not your thing, I do have the link to our Facebook community group, the next overrunning Facebook community group. Uh that's just uh the same thing as Instagram, but it's on Facebook. And so it's an interactive community there where we share tips, uh articles, encouragement, advice. You can ask questions. It's just a great community to be part of. And as usual, I will have the link to rundoyen.com. Uh if you're looking uh to find a coach, we have this awesome match feature which will help match you with a coach that matches what you're looking for in a coach. Um and if not quite ready for a coach, then we've got the Run Doyen Dashers program. I'm actually using that program right now. It's if you want that step right before a coach. So you're wanting to get back into it, but not quite ready for that commitment or the accountability that comes with a coach. The Doyen Dashers program uh does a great job of getting you ready for that. So I'm gonna jump into the conversation. Actually, I'm gonna let Will jump into the conversation. This is our March Instagram live replay. It's Coach Will Benitez as he talks with Coach Simone Plord about the power and importance of consistency.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

Hi, Simone.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Hi, how are you?

SPEAKER_02 3:20

Hi, I'm doing very well. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 3:22

I'm good, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Good, good. Simone, forgive me, but can you pronounce your last name?

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Uh it's Florde.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

It's Plord. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Yeah. I mean, depending on if you want to pronounce in French or in English, but in English it's Plourd.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

Okay. I I figured when you which is why I asked you to do it, but when you pause and like looked in the sky, I was like, okay, there's gotta be another pronunciation.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

I went for the English version.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

Well, cool, cool. Yeah, I figured we probably have mostly English speaking people uh in our audience, so I think that's fair. Um Welcome. It's good to meet you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Yeah, you as well.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

Yeah, so I'd like to start. I'll introduce myself and then I'll pass it off to you um to say whatever you'd like to say about yourself. I think what um our audience would love to know is a little bit about your running background, um club you're part of, um, nothing extensive, um, and then I'll kind of probably follow up with one or two like softball background questions, and then we'll get started with our um topic for today on consistency. I think why it matters, um how it's helped you, you know. There's a I think a huge reason why you wanted to talk about this today. So we'll dig into consistency and leveraging consistency, um, not only maybe in part of your like not your but general you uh training cycle, you know, someone's you know trying to train for half marathon, a marathon, whatever it may be, but also maybe across like like the whole breadth of one's running career, how consistency matters there too. Um, so again, I I'll start with a brief introduction of myself. My name is Will. I am the uh in-house nutritionist with Ron Doyen, and I am the host of these usually monthly Instagram live calls with our coaches, and here today is Coach Simone. So, Simone, I will pass it off to you.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Yeah, hi, nice to meet you. Um, yeah, my name is Simone. I'm a professional runner um for Nike, as well as uh I coach part-time for Rondoian. Um, I'm currently living in Portland, Oregon, run Union Athletics Club. Um I graduated college in June from the University of Utah and kind of went through that whole NCAA program there. Um and yeah, that's like a brief overview, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

Yeah, I appreciate it. That's great. And I'm in Portland too. Uh I think I knew you were amazing. Yeah, we are both here. This is where uh Ron Doyle was born, technically, I think in New York. But I think we can save Portland for now. Um okay, so our topic for today is consistency. So um I I know I said I passed, I sent some softball questions your way. I'm kind of debating if I want to. I guess yeah, you know what, I'll do it, and then we'll go into consistency. So just super quickly, I just had one off the top of my head. Um, why did you want to pursue coaching yourself? So you're you're a pro runner. Um I'm curious what led you, what inspired you to want to take on clients of Rune and guide them to you know to their successes.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Uh yeah, I think it's like, well, obviously as a professional runner, like it's so much about yourself and training, and you're kind of always in this bubble. And I think like being able to help others is something that I was really striving for, um, and kind of putting off the like, yeah, yourself to be helping someone else. And obviously, like the running background I have. Um, I've just always been inspired to like help others in their training and fall in love with running. Like, I have friends that um ask for advice in running and stuff, and I love giving it to them. Just for fun, I would send training plans to like friends and family if they want it. And so I figured it would be a good like side gig thing to be doing um because I do have some time on my hands, and and yeah, it's something I've always enjoyed.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

So okay, yeah, awesome. Appreciate that. Um, so consistency. Yes. Um I guess I'll start here. Why is it a topic that you wanted to explore?

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Uh I think it comes from like my own personal running journey. Uh, I figured like, and that's something I've learned like over the years, like how important it is. And like sometimes some athletes neglect it, I find, just because we tend to be a little impatient and want to see results really quickly. Um, but I think that like most importantly with running, it's a sport that can really pay off in the long term if you stay consistent um over the years, um, but even just like on a shorter term, um to be peaking at the right time. And so for me personally, I found like that doing less, especially at first, has helped a lot with my training. Um, I was lucky enough to have coaches that when I did start running were never trying to have me overdo it. And I was running lower mileage considered to what other people might were probably doing. But I think that being able to like be fully healthy through my time in college, not having any injuries, and then being able to come into the world of professional running, uh having been healthy and not running and seeing mileage is really helping with my progression even within the next few years, right? And so I think yeah, being able to stay healthy a full year rather than you know overdoing it in mileage and then breaking and then being injured for how however long and then coming back from that is is much more challenging. So I think it takes longer, it takes a little bit more patience, but it it can pay off better, which I find why it's important.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, so it sounds like this kind of goes back to goes back some years for you in terms of consistency. Was consistency ever something that was like named early on for you, or is it something that like looking back, you're just like, oh yeah, like that's definitely like I'm attributing my reality now to how consistent like that trajectory was for you? Or again, was it like was it something that was like named and discussed and like drilled into you? I'm just curious about how uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

When I started writing like the coaches I had never really precisely talked about consistency, but I think like they were definitely thinking about it, but not necessarily like communicated, communicating it directly with me. Like I had one I remember that was saying, like, like it's like a lemon, right? And we don't want to press the whole juice of the lemon. He was like, You're just getting started, we just want to press the juice a little bit, but like not all the way, because there's like running as a sport you can practice for so long. And I was you know, 17, 18 starting, and it was like it it's not a right time to be like, yeah, pressing the juice of the lemon, I guess. Um, so it was never like directly said, but um looking back at it now, I know that's that's what they meant. And uh yeah, we were just the goal is always to like stay healthy, um, especially those first few years.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Yeah, yeah. I love that. I love the visual of pressing the lemon. You can totally kind of like understand what with that visual. That's a helpful one. Kudos to that coach. Um I want to get a little more granular though with the same kind of um concept of consistency. I'm curious, like what does or can it look like? Like in practical terms for most of our runners here who are not pro, I know there is a pro, uh, at least one that I saw comment that you're spitting some consistency facts. Um, but I'm curious for our the majority of our audience, like what does that look like? And and like you know, for your cup, you know, your clients, for example, um, for someone who's training for whether it's their first 5k or marathon or striving for that BQ, like what does consistency look like in their in their training in their day?

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Um, I think it goes hand in hand with listening to your body, which can sometimes be tough when you're starting. Um, but it's really being in tune with how your body feels. Uh, like if you feel like there's a bit of like an injury or something that's starting to hurt, like you gotta know when to stop and when it's time to like maybe cross-train, like it's better to train for two days rather than two months if you keep running on that same injury, you know. Um, so definitely listening to your body, but then also just starting with like lower mileage and like you know, if it's if it means starting with like some run walk intervals, then then that's what it takes. And so yeah, I think like progressively building on mileage and and making sure you have enough time to like let's say prep for like a big marathon or half marathon, like like making sure you have enough weeks in advance where you can start out so that you can allow yourself to start with some really low mileage weeks and then kind of just build off of that. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Yeah. Does ones like uh injury history, like for example, if you're kind of like meeting a client for the first time or having early conversations, um, do you take into account like one's injury history in terms of like, okay, what will consistent training look like in my relationship with this runner moving forward?

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Oh, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Given history, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

For sure. I think it it varies on every individual and what mileage their body can take because it's different for everyone. And so you definitely have to have that first conversation of like how long have you been running for, what mileage you usually do, and like that yeah, injury history, you know, what to avoid. And if like that injury history is pretty high, then maybe trying to understand why that happened and because they were overdoing it, or just you know, and so I think that can definitely help uh building a training plan going forward.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm curious um how like I imagine that sometimes like even like revisiting, and this is probably you can speak to this if this happened in your career too, like revisiting goals may be part of this conversation, this larger conversation about staying consistent, like when one does get injured or sick or whatever the case is, like, is like okay, let's talk about those goals that we had for the year, or even for that particular race. Like, does having that conversation ever come up for a client, or has it has have you had to like revisit your own personal goals as a result for like trying to stay consistent and healthy?

SPEAKER_01 14:17

Right, yeah, definitely. Um, I think that's why it's important to like not just have short-term goals, but also like see the bigger picture ahead, and that's that's happened to me. I mean, I I've been lucky enough that I haven't had any major injuries that have set me off for a really long time, or but I think being able to be like, okay, let's say I can't do this next race because something's going on and I'd rather just stay healthy. Well, then it's like, but the bigger picture is what matters most, right? Like keeping that in mind and knowing that you know it's not that next race, like like there's always gonna be races. Uh it's always gonna be there, but like your health is what's most important. So, like making sure you know that, and then just knowing, okay, well, you know, maybe it's not this summer, but like next summer or next season, I want to come back stronger, and that's what's most important. It's like your long-term health over just your performance for this next race that's coming up.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

Yeah, yeah. I imagine sometimes those conversations aren't the easiest to have with you know, like a type A runner who's been, you know, wanting to set a marathon PR for the longest or like BQ for the longest, or to set their you know, 5k PR that's like 10 years old. Like, I imagine they want to like do that ASAP. You know, like that's like that's why I hired you. That's why I'm like reaching out to you, and like you have to come in and like have that honest conversation. Like, look, like, do you want that or and maybe maybe it's not always or, but like, or do you want to, you know, be a runner for the next 10 years or whatever, or like not be injured in pursuit of this goal. Um, I imagine those conversations aren't necessarily the easiest to have with all runners.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Yeah, yeah, for sure, but I think they're important and it's important to understand as a runner too, that like it's part of the sport and it's gonna happen, and sometimes it's out of your control. So yeah, keeping that long-term goal in mind is is really important.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, so I'm uh what I'd like for I'm curious if runners out there who are listening now, um, are thinking like, does like what is consistency look like in like a given like weekly plan, for example? Like, can someone who only runs three days a week um only can run three days a week, like can they be consistent? Or does consistency have to be like five to six days a week? Like, can you find consistency within any kind of running reality that people have to follow? Like, not everyone can train five, six days a week. So can those people still be consistent, or can only the people who are like uber dedicated and have the luxury of time be consistent? What are you what's your take on it?

SPEAKER_01 17:04

No, no, I mean, according to me, consistency is just doing what you have to do, whatever that looks like. Like if it's you know, training seven days a week, then and you're doing it every day, consistent. But if it's like only running three days a week, but that's what you're supposed to do and that's what works for you, then that's also being consistent. It's kind of just like showing up whenever you have to. Um, so yeah, I I don't think it means overdoing it, or I don't think like consistency is doing more. Um, I think it looks different for everyone. It's basically just like showing up when you have to show up and and getting the work in.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

Yeah, for sure, right on. Um, you mentioned when we were kind of in the background of this conversation, uh talking about this topic, um, as part of I think your story or something you wanted to touch on, you mentioned like gradually increasing mileage as part of again this larger conversation of consistency. Um how do you uh I guess uh navigate that personally or or how have you in order to kind of like reach you know the success that you have? Um, and what's your take on like gradually increasing mileage as part of being consistent in training?

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Yeah. Um, well, like I said, like I've I've had some really good coaches that like I didn't really have to think about this or do the work, but like looking back, I'm really grateful that that's how my progression went because I know it's like paying off today, but um yeah, it was just starting with like low mileage. Like when I started off college, I wasn't doing anything crazy, I wasn't training that much um at the time. But I started the sport, I guess, a little bit later than some of the other athletes I was competing against. And so my coaches were like, we just want to make sure we keep you healthy and you know, we'll have so much ahead, like there's no need to be starting off um running like 50 miles a week, right? So I was running like 25-30 miles and then cross-training a bit, and then yeah, for me, consistency looked like well, or increasing mileage looked like five miles a season-ish. Like, um, but those first two years I was running like yeah, 30 miles, 35, and then we progressively increased from there because I was staying healthy, responding well to training. And I also think like when you change your environment, like for me, moving from Montreal to the US and hopping on the NCAA, there were already so many different factors that were changing that like we wanted to make sure that we were gonna stay healthy, and that meant like keeping the mileage where it was at, not making it crazy more because you're already adapting, and there's already so many other stress fractures, even just incorporating like weights and uh different aspects of training that I let's say wasn't used to. So um, I think that's also important, keeping in mind how to increase mileage, like depending on you know, if your athlete's trying something that's completely new or like if it's a similar environment, you can maybe more rapidly increase mileage, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Yeah. So getting even more granular with you, you went from a and I don't know the years in between here, but you went from a five uh weight runner to 1500 meter to uh four minutes and six seconds, 1500, and maybe that's that's I don't know if you you've broken that PR, but um I think that was that's accurate. What do you in terms of consistency again, going back to our larger theme, what was part of like that? Like what do you attribute to that? Like what what what did you um what do you think as far as consistency goes for getting you like from a like again five plus minute runner to 1500 minute runner to four minutes six seconds? I mean that's a huge uh improvement, right? It's it's gotten you to where you are now. What was um like a couple things that are like really part of like did you really focus on that? You really put in that work time and time again, and like you know, the consistency is key. Hashtag like really applies to like this part of what you look back on.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

For sure. I think it has a huge part in it. Um also it didn't happen like overnight, like it, you know, in many years. Yeah, yeah. Able to to and I think every year I was able to cut down maybe like 10-ish seconds of PR. So it's definitely like a slow, consistent build to get there. It's not something that can at least for me happen overnight. Um, and I think that yeah, being able to like stay healthy and just I mean, we've said it so much already, but like be consistent in my training. Um and uh uh I think that has a huge um, you know, obviously like little injury. Happen here and there, but nothing that's like set me back for for a while. And so I think being able to just build off of that and gradually increase my mileage and you know having my body adapt to the workload, and uh that that's required to you know run a quick 200, and so yeah, all of that has helped out. Like I said, like I've had had some really great coaches helped me get there too.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

So yeah, for sure. Now I want to kind of apply this to some of our runners once again. Outside of pro, you have the luxury of not to say pros can't, but it's we don't see this often, where in the same year you may be chasing a 5's goal or you know a half marathon goal and maybe a marathon goal, right? Like recreational runners who are maybe even competitive to some degree can kind of have the luxury of like really trying to like kind of set PRs, if you will, across so many different like distance events, right? How does consistency apply to that? Like, can a runner try to PR in a 5k and maybe a marathon or half marathon like all in one? Can they consistently train for multiple events and setting like multiple achievements in those events? Um and maybe you run into that in your like with your clients. I I don't think that that's like super far-fetched like of an idea. Like I think a lot of runners probably do try to do that. Like, I'm gonna chase a half in the spring, and then my goal fall marathon, like I really try to set PRs there. Like, do you navigate consistency um and try to build a consistent training plan any different, or is it really just I'm just gonna personalize it, you know, uh across the board for this person?

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Like depending on what event they're training for.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

Yeah, I guess like what is consistency consistency maybe look like if you're chasing all these different like events?

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Uh I think it looks pretty similar, honestly. Like, even for me as a 1500 runner, like I'll still be PRing in the 8 and in the 5K if you know if if I'm fit and I'm ready to roll on a 1500, usually that means you're able to be running well the above distance and the lower distance. So I think um it applies the same way for somebody who's you know training for a half or a marathon. Their preparation to a marathon, they want to race a half uh a few weeks before that and they PR. Like I wouldn't be so surprised. Um, so I think, yeah, obviously it means like personalized training plans, I think, depending on the distance you're training for um and the time of year. But um overall, I I don't think you have to be consistent in specifically one distance. Uh I think you can be consistent in multiple different um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Yeah, yeah. No, that's great. Yeah, because I I I what I don't want a takeaway to be is first for some of our runners here, like they have to like pigeonhole themselves into like one distance. Like you gotta commit. Are you a marathoner or are you you know a 10k runner? And it's like, well, no, that's not what we're talking about here when we talk about consistency. Um, so I've done I didn't want that to be a takeaway, so I'm glad that that you sound sound like there's uh good alignment there.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

For sure. I think yeah, even in the 15, in order to be a great 1500 1500 runner, you have to be a great 5k runner and and you have to have some leg speed as well.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

So yeah, awesome. Um kind of moving a little bit away from consistency, but I think that there's some I think we can like tie it into this next phase of this uh conversation here. Um you had mentioned like visualization for race day, like how you kind of um you know mentally prepare maybe for like a big event, big race. Um I'm curious one, if like what you want to share about that, but then two, um if if that's something you also kind of had to like consistently work on, like maybe that took years to like get to a place of like a good healthy mindset on race day, right? And I'm curious like how you focused on that over the years and how you kind of like sharpened your mental game on you know those three days of the year.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Yeah, I I think uh well, so it's interesting because I come from a ski racer background, like downhill skiing, and that was like a huge thing uh in downhill skiing with visualization because like every course is so different that like you would actually have to like really know um your course like by heart. And so like a chair would always be going over the course and like kind of practicing that. So it started at a younger age, uh just from like that background, but then I never really thought about like implementing it in track because right, it's just like an oval, like it's pretty simple. And so it took me a while to like um actually realize that that's something that you could be doing in track as well. And um, so for a while there I wasn't even I wasn't even thinking about it or doing it. Um, but now I've yeah, I've started implementing it like a few years back, and I think um it's just helped kind of knowing what scenarios you can get on race day, um, and kind of going over those scenarios, best case, worst case. And I think um it it makes you, at least for me, like on the given race day, like if something happened that you haven't necessarily planned out or whatever, well, in my head, I was like, oh, that that happened, it's okay because we just found from that. Um so I yeah, I find it extremely helpful. Um, it obviously varies for each person, but uh I found it very beneficial to actually also implement it, implement it and track. I do think it's like not as many people talk about it, at least like compared to like ski racing, where it was like, and you know, coaches would tell us to to do that. Um never really had a coach that's told me to do this, but um, it's kind of something I I've learned and found really beneficial.

SPEAKER_02 28:13

So so I'm curious, like for tracking, you said it's very different, like it's like, oh, it's just an oval. Like, what am I visualizing exactly? But I'm curious, like, do you have this practice in place on on the day, or is it something like you try to do and focus on and kind of get out of the way maybe that week and on race day you try not to like think about it or overthink it, or or maybe I'm wrong, maybe you do also um do some like visualization practice on on the day of?

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Um, I think like, and obviously like I don't always do it, but I think for like big races and big meets, I'll I'll think about it a little bit. I don't like to think about the race like too much in advance. So like for me, a week in advance is like too early. Um like the day before, I'll go over the worst scenarios that can happen. Um, and then like the day of is when I like to think about like the best case scenarios or like before warming up or even like yeah, like right before the race basically. Um just thinking about that that best case scenario and kind of like I guess manifesting it in a way. Um yeah, and and and then going into it and then I'm like, all right, I'm ready. Like so that that's the way I've found it helpful, but then again, varies for everyone. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure it does. I'm sure like some people don't want to think about anything else on race date, like they want to like put their music on and like tune everything out. Whereas some people like yourself, like no, like it probably really helps to like actually quiet the barriers is to like think about it and like not shut it out, but just be with it kind of thing. Um like you said, it kind of probably embarrassed for everyone.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

And be like, yeah, gets me going, and I'm like, okay, now I'm excited to go race, you know, like I want this to happen.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

So yeah, and I'm sure that's like that's not that's not most people, right? Like, you know, race they nerves and um people don't like have have had the guidance or time to like really think about that. Like you were trained in this, like like you said, your previous main sport was like you did it all the time, like your coaches talked about it all the time. Like this is probably even more than consistency, was like talked about and like trained in you in some way, um, given your background. And yeah, I think like a lot of runners here, like you said, it's not really talked about too much. I think it is being talked about more and more. The more like like sports like psych and and um like mental performance becomes like something we talk about. I think visualization is mentioned more, but um yeah, I think I think like everyone, everyone's different, but I think having that conversation with you know, with your in your case like as a coach, like with your runners can be like really helpful for um getting those you know race jitters out of the way and just like really being prepared for like all the different possible outcomes and being okay with the outcome that kind of ends up happening, I guess. Yes, definitely. Awesome. Um okay. I don't know if there's anything else, Simone, um you want to um mention regarding going back to the original theme, like consistency and consistent training. Um I think we touched on a lot here, but did was there anything else that you came in like really wanting to to drill uh or leave our audience with that we didn't touch on?

SPEAKER_01 31:37

Uh no, uh I feel like we really touched everything, so I said everything I I felt like I wanted to say.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

Yeah, that's perfect. I appreciate that. Um and appreciate you being here and joining us and letting our Rondoian audience um, you know, meet you in this way, um, and maybe even letting your audience meet us in this way. Um and how can runners who are looking for a coach or um maybe getting like changing their coaching situation um find you? I think on Run Doyen they should be able to contact you a couple different ways, right?

SPEAKER_01 32:14

I believe so. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you book an appointment um the website.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

So yeah, you should you can head to on rundoyen.com and it would make it pretty simple. You should be able to just browse coaches and find Simone's profile there and think from within that they should be able to message you, like you said, set up a free appointment. Um so if you are interested in having Simone uh coach you or having that initial conversation, um please do reach out to uh Simone via our site and have that conversation. Hopefully uh you find yourself uh a good match and a new coach in Simone. So um, Simone again, thank you for this time and good luck with outdoors coming up.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Yeah, yep, I know you just wrapped up indoors, so it's it was a longer indoor, I think, for for you and some select runners in the world. Um, and yeah, good luck in outdoors, and we'll see you again soon.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Appreciate it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

All right, take care, bye everyone. Bye.

Jacob Phillips 33:19

And that does it for this month's Instagram live replay edition of the Next Level Run podcast. I want to thank Coach Uill Benitez for hosting these Instagram live conversations. Also, I want to thank Coach Simone for her time and advice. If you're looking to find some consistency in your training, this is a great conversation for you to listen to. I want to point you once again to the show notes below. Uh, you can find uh Coach Simone, Coach Will, you can find their contact information there below. We've also got some important links that uh I just uh implore you to click on and follow and check out. If you're looking to uh find a coach to help you crush your running goals, look no further than RunDoyin.com. I'll be back on April 13th with the full form podcast, and then on the 26th of April uh with another IG Live replay. We appreciate you being here and joining us each and every month. And until next time, have a great run. Thank you for joining us here on the Next Level Running Podcast, your source for training advice from the expert coaches at Rundoyan. If you're ready to take your training and racing to the next level, head over to Rundoyan.com and get matched to your ideal coach who will provide you with the highly customized online training you need for crushing your goals on race day.