Marathon Training Academy

Husband-and-wife team Angie and Trevor Spencer have been running Marathon Training Academy since 2010, making it one of the longest-running and most trusted shows for anyone chasing 26.2. Angie is a certified running coach and marathon veteran who has completed races on all seven continents, and Trevor brings a practical, ask-anything attitude that keeps episodes grounded for regular runners juggling work, kids, and training. Each week they tackle the questions that actually come up during a training cycle: how to build mileage without getting hurt, what to eat the night before a long run, whether to walk through aid stations, how to pace your first Boston, and why your taper feels so weird. Interviews with coaches, sports doctors, nutritionists, and elite athletes round out the mix, along with listener Q and A segments pulled straight from the MTA community. The tone is warm, conversational, and refreshingly free of hype. You will not find shouty motivation or gear-of-the-week sponsorships here, just steady, experience-backed guidance from two people who have been coaching runners through their first marathons and their fiftieth for well over a decade. If you want a training partner in your ears on easy days, this is the show.