Podcasts by Coaching Runners Podcast
The Coaching Runners Podcast helps coaches hone their craft via in-depth interviews with elite coaches and accomplished athletes, as well as sports scientists and strength and conditioning coaches. Jay Johnson hosts the show. Links and notes from each episode can be found at www.coachjayjohnson.com.
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028 - 800m Mentality with John O'Malley from 2023-03-13T16:18:50
John O'Malley discusses how the 800m is different than XC, and the mentality needed to run the race well.
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027 - Mental Skills for 1600m from 2023-03-07T12:31:15
Here from John O'Malley, Shannon Thompson, Kelly Christensen, and Sinclaire Johnson.
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026 - What should you do when an athlete is ill? from 2023-03-05T15:11:53
In this mini-episode Coach Jay explains what coaches should do when an athlete is ill. Hint: Lowering the volume, but expecting them to run workouts that replicate the demands of the race is the...
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025 - The best way to use Tuesday meets from 2023-03-05T14:57:10
In this mini-episode Coach Jay talks about how to use Tuesday meets to get kids ready to run fast at a Saturday invitation.
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024 - Alex Lyons - What Makes a Great Teammate from 2021-01-10T12:18:30
This is an excerpt from Alex's presentation at the Boulder Running Camps 2020-21 Winter Virtual Camp.
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023 - Speed Work: What does it mean? from 2020-11-21T23:56:44
In this episode, Jay Johnson explains why he doesn't use the term speed work. He goes into detail about how he thinks coaches should use the term speed. It's his contention that the term 'race p...
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022 - Alex Lyons from 2020-11-21T23:51:24
Alex Lyons is a tremendous coach and I'm so happy he not only joined me on the podcast, but th...
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021 - John O'Malley - Burnout in Coaching from 2020-11-09T17:41:19
John O'Malley is the boy's cross country and track coach at Sandburg High School in Orland Park, Illinois. He is the only person to have coached two Footlocker national champions. On the track, ...
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020 - Jonathan Dalby - Burnout in Coaching from 2020-11-09T17:37:02
Jonathan Dalby is the girl's and boy's coach at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. His teams have won multiple state titles in cross country and have made multiple NXN appe...
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019 - Kim O'Malley - Burnout in Coaching from 2020-11-09T17:34:27
Kim O'Malley is a former high school coach - nine years in both California and Colorado - who is a content developer for Listen
018 - Jessie Magoto - Burnout in Coaching from 2020-11-09T17:28:49
Jessie Magoto, the girl's cross country and track coach at Minster High School, in Minster, Ohio, is my guest on this episode. We discuss burnout in both coaching and teaching. Jessie explains h...
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017 - Special Covid-19 episode with Jeff Messer, PhD from 2020-03-23T19:53:11
Jeff Messer, PhD, and Jay discuss how coaches and athletes can view training during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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016 - Tony Holler - Part 2 from 2020-02-26T02:27:18
Tony and Jay spend most of this episode focused on training, specifically discussing what distance coaches can adapt from the sprint world to improve performance. Listen
015 - John O'Malley, Dr. Jeff Messer and Jeff Boelé from 2020-02-17T15:40:42
014 - Tony Holler - Part 1 of 2 from 2020-02-10T07:00
Note: Explicit content in this episode.
Tony Holler (@pntrack) is the head track coach at Plainfield North High School in the Chicago area. Tony Holler has ...
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013 - Scott Steffen from 2020-02-06T01:02:33
Scott Steffen is the boy’s and girl’s coach at Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, IN.
His boys team won the state...
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012 - Jay Johnson - New Format from 2020-02-03T15:25:15
Just a quick update to let you know that a new episode will be released every Monday. Most episodes will be interviews, but every so often Jay will do a Q&A.
Jay goes into a bit of detail...
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011 - Jessie Magoto from 2020-01-02T19:18:33
Jessie Magoto is my guest on this week’s podcast. She is the girl's coach at Minster HS in Minster OH, a town of 3,000 people. Minster has won four state championships in a row in cro...
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010 - Kim O'Malley from 2019-12-21T14:49:06
Kim O’Malley is a Youth Development Specialist with 20 years of experience designing and delivering leadership ...
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009 - Alex Ostberg from 2019-10-02T21:34:43
Alex Ostberg is currently entering his 5th year at Stanford University, where he has been an All-American in both cross country and track. This podcast is rooted in a presentation Alex did at th...
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008 - Dr. Rebecca Breslow from 2019-08-11T11:09:44
Dr. Rebecca Breslow is a Sports Medicine physician in Boston, Massachusetts. She has specific interests in running and road race medicine, non-operative treatment of musculoskeletal injuries, sp...
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007 - Tonya McDonough from 2019-06-16T05:56
Tonya McDonough is the girls cross country and distance coach at Iowa City Liberty High School in Iowa City, Iowa.
006 - Howard Russ from 2019-01-16T16:57:12
Howard Russ just completed his 11th season as men’s and women’s head coach for Beavercreek High School in Beavercreek, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton.
In 2018, Russ’s girls won their first OHSA...
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005 - Tony Holler from 2019-01-13T02:24:04
Tony Holler is the boy's track coach at Plainfield North H.S. (IL). In 2018 Coach Holler's team swept the sprints - 4x100m, 4x200m, 100m, 200m - at the IHSA State Mee...
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004 - Jeff Messer from 2019-01-09T14:36:33
003 - Jeff Boele from 2019-01-06T06:05
Jeff has a unique background as a coach, in that he was a distance runner in high school and college. He moved to Boulder, Colorado, to train, and found himself c...
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002 - John O'Malley from 2018-12-31T19:15:17
John is the only person to have coached two Footlocker Champions (Lukas Verzbicus and Dylan Jacobs). He’s also had tremendous success coaching 800m runners: 26 boys h...
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001 - Chris Lear from 2018-12-27T21:50:25
What a pleasure it was to interview my friend Chris Lear for the first episode of the Coaching Runners podcast.
Chris is known primarily as the author of Listen
Welcome to the Coaching Runners Podcast from 2018-12-27T20:17:24
Welcome to the Coaching Runners Podcast, hosted by Jay Johnson.
The goal of the podcast is to help high school coaches broaden their knowledge of the craft of coaching and help them take...
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