#20 - Niels Esmeijer, Part Two - About a Photograph, Functional Overload and Coaching Processes

Hello and welcome to Episode #20 of Everyday Runners. 

This episode is a continuation of my conversation with Niels Esmeijer. In this episode we talk about the photo that accompanies this episode and what the circumstances were when it was taken at the Rotterdam Marathon a few years ago; we talk about his own experiences with his coaches and what he has learnt from them and taken into his own coaching processes. And, Niels also talks about ‘functional overload’, which kinda sounds like jargon, but it actually makes a fair amount of sense. 

The final eight minutes of the conversation is Niels asking me about a 5000m race I did about three or four weeks ago. I found it quite awkward to listen back to this as I am somewhat reluctant to make excuses about not performing to my own expectations during a race. But, here, it sounds like I’m making excuses. I’m glad though that I had went on the record about the race, even though, as I was talking, I planned on deleting it from the episode.

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Until next time en tot de volgende. 

 

Relevant Links:

Niels Esmeijer's coaching platform, MTFU

Interview with Niels and Anne Luijten, NPO Radio 1

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