There will be a recurring question in our new Performance Process podcast: After listening to this show, how much faster can we go?
Fitting, then, that the guest for our first episode can answer this more accurately than almost anybody else. Jonny Wale can send an already-elite athlete 1.5 to two kilometres farther over an hour. How do we know? He’s been involved in ten successful hour record attempts and is the coach of former world record holder Dan Bigham.
Wale is an hour record specialist, but his processes apply much more broadly. Identifying failure points and athlete weaknesses, solving those problems, and optimizing both training and race day for the athlete. The way Wale breaks down the hour, asks new questions and finds new answers, can provide lessons for us all.