Chris Knighton
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Coach Chris Knighton helps passionate athletes run faster marathons and develop the confidence to take on any life challenge. You'll leave each episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast with clear next steps to follow and the inspiration you need to improve your running immediately. If we can run faster marathons, we can do anything. Discover more at https://knightonruns.com/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chris Knighton turns marathon coaching into clear decisions about pacing, consistency, injury prevention, and the mental work of pursuing ambitious race goals.
Chris Knighton treats marathon training as a problem of understanding before execution. His interviews with fellow coaches and athletes keep returning to the purpose behind a workout, the discipline of taking easy days easy, and the value of consistency across training cycles.
Chris Knighton gives easy runs a job, inconvenient news if you keep trying to win Tuesday.
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A grounded speed reset built on variety, drills, and quality work.
Coach Chris turns a plain running chat into a focused account of how he says he got past a long speed stall. He ties that shift to moving some attention away from marathon-first training and toward mile work, then layering in more weekly variety and treating drills and…
A clear half-marathon lesson on speed, endurance, and why both matter.
The half marathon is treated as a test that asks for both speed and endurance, and that point comes through clearly. It argues that runners who handle shorter races well can still find the longer effort demanding, while marathoners also have reason to keep the half in their…
Volume and varied training, rather than constant hard effort, are presented as the route to faster running.
The episode frames speed as something built through smarter training, not just harder effort. Coach Chris Knighton points to volume and variety as the main controllable levers, and the conversation keeps returning to the idea that everyday runs should not all sit at the same…
A calm case for systems, repetition, and 30 days of habit change.
The episode treats habit change as a difficult first stretch: the thing being chased sits outside the comfort zone, and it can feel rough before it starts to ease up.
A plainspoken Boston preview that keeps the focus on pacing, with the hardest miles left for late.
This episode presents the Boston Marathon as both a preview of the course and a guide to pacing. It moves from the opening downhill to the flatter stretch near mile five, then through the rolling miles around Natick and the steep downhill before Newton, keeping the focus on how…
A reflective marathon recap tying a seven-minute PR to several small training changes.
Chris Knighton centers the Chicago Marathon as the payoff for a patient rebuild. He calls it the best marathon of his life, clocking 2:46:35 and bettering his Boston 2022 mark by seven minutes.
A grounded running conversation about getting faster without making it complicated.
Shelly Anishete’s story feels like one of those long builds that only makes sense in hindsight. She started in high school without a school team, kept at it for more than 20 years, and has put in hundreds of road races before treating faster times as the point instead of a side…
A steady conversation about coaching better by simplifying explanations, trusting the plan, and reducing mental clutter.
Chris Knighton and Jesse Grucia center the episode on growth, with Knighton describing how years of coaching adult distance runners have sharpened the way he explains workouts, trims back complexity, and shows up as a more mature coach.
Trail running, told from inside race week.
Chris Knighton opens by reflecting on how much more a coach can know after a few years of work.
Host Chris Knighton delivers a motivational talk centered on the theme of 'embracing the challenge' in running training.
The host opens with a straightforward coaching belief: every run should have a purpose.
Coach Chris frames the half marathon as a road race that asks for both speed and endurance.
Chris Knighton says he ran the best marathon of his life at Chicago.
The episode opens with Coach Chris introducing Jane Springston, a Denver-area running coach with a YouTube channel and a coaching website.
Josh Berube's Boston chase is the center of the conversation.
Coach Chris Knighton opens the first episode of 2023 by tying nutrition directly to health and performance for distance runners.
The episode lays out the Boston Marathon as a race you have to respect from the first step.
Coach Chris presents a chapter from his audiobook 'Run Faster Marathons,' focusing on the optimal strategy for increasing running mileage.
Coach Chris from the Night and Runs podcast shares four specific strategies that helped him break through a multi-year speed plateau, including PRing in both the marathon (2:46) and the mile (4:45).
Coach Chris opens bundled up against 27-degree weather.
Barry Karsh joins for a conversation about health and the long view of running.
The episode argues that real change starts outside the comfort zone.
Coach Chris Knighton starts with a blunt idea.
The episode keeps one idea at the center: stay healthy enough to keep training.
Shelly Anishete joins the show after more than 20 years of running.
The #1 mistake that most marathon athletes make is running far too fast on everyday runs