Podcast
The Infirmary | Fixing Broken Endurance Athletes
Welcome to The Infirmary! We're sorry you're not feeling great. Our goal on The Infirmary is to solve the problems you are having in your endurance sport.
Whether you are getting ready for your first triathlon, or you are a seasoned endurance athlete, we are here to help. Featuring discussions with coaches, athletes, and other business owners, we are confident we'll be able to help.
Welcome to The Infirmary! We hope you'll be feeling better soon.
- Episodes
- 57
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 45 min
- On air since
- 2024
- Latest episode
- 1 week ago
Episodes
57 episodes, newest first
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36 min
You Have an Energy Budget—Here's How to Manage It
Season 1, Episode 57
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1 min
Laura Siddall Won't Die Wondering
Season 1, Episode 56
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29 min
Coping Imagery, In-Race Imagery, and Outcome Imagery: A Full Visualization Protocol
Season 1, Episode 55
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Episode 54: In Search of a Sensible Training Philosophy — Mikael Eriksson on VO2 Max, Athlete Profiling, and the Limits of Literature
Show notes
Mikael Eriksson founded Scientific Triathlon in 2015 and has coached full time since 2017. He also hosts That Triathlon Show, a podcast with over 700 episodes in its archive that has become one of the most comprehensive educational resources in the sport. This conversation covers the question that organized it: what does a sensible training philosophy actually look like — and how do you build one that holds up across the cycling trends of polarized, threshold, Norwegian, sweet spot, and back again?
Mikael's podcast: That Triathlon Show — https://www.scientifictriathlon.com
Scientific Triathlon coaching and training plans: https://www.scientifictriathlon.com
Johansson et al. — "Elite Aerobic Endurance Performance: Is it Really Related to Lactate Threshold Expressed Relative to Peak Oxygen Uptake?" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40239962/
That Triathlon Show Episode 419 (Q&A on science and coaching philosophy): https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts419/
TrainingPeaks: https://www.trainingpeaks.com
Campfire Endurance coaching: https://campfireendurance.com
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44 min
You Are Not the Voices in Your Head, or How to Fix Your Self-Talk
Season 1, Episode 53
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1 min
Episode 52: How to Achieve a Breakthrough Performance with Mark McCabe
Season 1, Episode 52
Show notes
Mark McCabe wrote triathlon into his social calendar in 2020, stayed stuck at a 5:45 for four years, and then decided to find out what would happen if he actually gave the sport what it was asking for. Two and a half years of consistent work later — including a build block that got replaced by 23,000-step days in Italy, a Zoltar fortune machine in a casino, and instructions from his coach that scared his wife — he finished Ohio 70.3 in 4:11:50, jumped from the 62nd percentile to the top 8% of his age group, and posted a 21-minute PR. This is the conversation about what actually caused that. Chris and Mark go through the volume data, the carb-loading protocol, the race-week preparation, the emotional regulation that kept the run from unraveling, and the mindset shift that made doubles feel like a gift instead of a punishment. Along the way, Chris shares his own breakthrough race — Ironman Canada 2011 in 97-degree heat — and the decade of volume that preceded it. If you have been stuck at the same result for longer than you would like, this is the episode to listen to.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Fuelin app (nutrition planning): https://fuelin.app
Precision Hydration (sweat sodium testing and carb products): https://www.precisionhydration.com
QT2 Systems / Jesse Kropelnicki: https://qt2systems.com
Empirical Cycling / Kolie Moore (threshold testing): https://empiricalcycling.com
Mark McCabe on Strava: search Mark McCabe
Mark's videography company: Flip Turn Media Group (Indiana)
Campfire Endurance Bend Camp (limited spots remaining): (link in show notes)
1:1 Coaching with Chris: https://campfireendurance.com
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47 min
Three Endurance Skills that Lead to Mastery
Season 1, Episode 51
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1 hr 3 min
Episode 50 Live from Bend Camp: David Tilbury-Davis on the Mindset and Habits Behind Long-Term Athletic Success
Season 1, Episode 50
Show notes
This episode is a live recording from Campfire's annual Bend Triathlon Training Camp, where co-coach and longtime collaborator David Tilbury-Davis sat down with campers for an open Q&A. David has coached over 30 years and worked with some of the most recognized names in the sport — Lionel Sanders, Ashley Gentle, Cody Beals, Sky Munch, Kaisa Sali, and many others — but what runs through every answer in this conversation is a conviction that coaching, at its core, is about human connection and behavioral engineering, not data dashboards.
Links:
Campfire Endurance 2027 Bend Training Camp: https://www.campfireendurance.com/training-camps
Fuelin app: https://www.fuelin.com
Trimapper: https://www.trimapper.com
David Tilbury-Davis Coaching: https://www.tilburydavis.com/
Campfire Endurance coaching: https://campfireendurance.com
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54 min
How to Face Your Fear w/Sports Psychologist Simon Marshall
Season 1, Episode 49
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36 min
Deliberate Practice in the Pool Leads to a TEN-MINUTE Olympic-distance Improvement
Season 1, Episode 48
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Episode 47: Justin Daerr on Intrinsic Motivation, Longevity vs. Performance, and Staying in the Game
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27 min
Fixing the Brick—Four Studies on Running Off the Bike
Season 1, Episode 46
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1 hr 5 min
Durability and Fatigue Resistance with Coaching Legend Joe Friel
Season 1, Episode 45
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50 min
Triathlon Only Has Two ZOnes
Season 1, Episode 44
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59 min
How To Train Your Gut with Tash Cooper-Smith
Season 1, Episode 43
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30 min
Stress + Rest = Growth: A Guided Breathwork Session for Mental Toughness
Season 1, Episode 42
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59 min
"'Metabolic Efficiency' is just a Fancy Term for Getting Fit," Says Endurance Coach Ryan Bolton
Season 1, Episode 41
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25 min
Where Is My Mind? Flow State, Focus, and Interval Meditation
Season 1, Episode 40
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21 min
10-Minute Guided Interval Meditation
Season 1, Episode 39
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1 hr 7 min
From a Ten-Year Break to 9:03 at Roth: Ultraman World Champion Gordo Byrn
Season 1, Episode 38
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