Creating a New Kind of Run Club with Knox Robinson

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Knox Robinson is a unique running coach and founder of the Black Roses running group in New York City. His coaching methods, inspired by music, culture, and the urban environment, are unconventional and effective. The Black Roses practice like an elite track team, but instead of high-end facilities, they use urban areas like parks, city streets, and local trails as their training grounds.

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0:45.2	podcasts. You have to really change the frame around what we think is hard and what we think is fun and what we think is possible.
1:04.3	Once you change the frame, that's a different kind of threshold.
1:07.0	We always worried about threshold on a physiological level, but it's really the
1:11.4	emotional threshold that you can play with that changes our athletic performance.
1:19.6	Knox Robinson is one of the most unique running coaches I've ever talked to. He's the founder
1:25.3	of the running group Black Roses, based in New York City.
1:29.4	It's a small club that trains hard, and they consistently produce high-performing athletes.
1:34.9	The Black Roses practiced like an elite track team, but instead of practicing at a high-end facility,
1:40.7	they use different urban areas like parks, city streets, and local trails as their training grounds.
1:46.6	For his coaching, Knox takes inspiration from music, culture, and the urban environment.
1:52.3	His methods are unconventional, and they work.
1:57.4	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI Co-Op Studios production, presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Op MasterCard.
2:09.9	Knox Robinson, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
2:13.8	I'm excited to chat with you.
2:15.7	I'm super excited to be here. Thanks for having me.
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