Coaching Runners Podcast
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsThe 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
March 13, 2023 16:18 - 11 minutes - 25.3 MBJohn O'Malley discusses how the 800m is different than XC, and the mentality needed to run the race well. Visit CoacJayJohnson.com to learn more about the Mental Skills for High School Runners course, which this excerpt is from. Enjoy!
027 - Mental Skills for 1600m
March 07, 2023 12:31 - 49 minutes - 113 MBHere from John O'Malley, Shannon Thompson, Kelly Christensen, and Sinclaire Johnson. You can find the full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr-510ZW1Ac&feature=youtu.be More mental skills videos at www.coachjayjohnson.com/mental_skills_HS Here's what coaches and athletes are saying about the Mental Skills course: https://testimonial.to/mental-skills-for-high-school-runners/all "I look forward to Jay's weekly emails because they are phenomenal reminders for me as a coach." - ...
026 - What should you do when an athlete is ill?
March 05, 2023 15:11 - 9 minutes - 21.8 MBIn 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 way to go. Let's go!
025 - The best way to use Tuesday meets
March 05, 2023 14:57 - 10 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this mini-episode Coach Jay talks about how to use Tuesday meets to get kids ready to run fast at a Saturday invitation.
024 - Alex Lyons - What Makes a Great Teammate
January 10, 2021 12:18 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBThis is an excerpt from Alex's presentation at the Boulder Running Camps 2020-21 Winter Virtual Camp. It's a fantastic presentation and both the athletes and coaches who were fortunate to learn from Alex. If you're a coach and you want your athletes to learn from coaches like Alex have them (and their parents) visit BoulderRunningCamps.com and learn about our educational offerings. We offer more than just in-person camps and serious kids, who are eager to race faster, can learn a tremen...
023 - Speed Work: What does it mean?
November 21, 2020 23:56 - 41 minutes - 57 MBIn 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 pace work' can often be used to assign training to athletes. Check out Jay's other podcast, Running with Coach Jay, to hear his views on why this term is also problematic for adult runners.
022 - Alex Lyons
November 21, 2020 23:51 - 2 hours - 172 MBAlex Lyons is a tremendous coach and I'm so happy he not only joined me on the podcast, but that's he's part of the Boulder Running Clinics 2020-21 Winter Webinar Series. Alex is the girl's coach at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois. The girls have had tremendous success in both cross country and track during his time as the head coach. Alex spent part of his collegiate running years at American University where Matt Centrowitz was his coach and we discuss how Coach Ce...
021 - John O'Malley - Burnout in Coaching
November 09, 2020 17:41 - 57 minutes - 79 MBJohn 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, his boys ran an average time of 7:44 in the 4 x 800m for seven consecutive years (averaging 1:56 per athlete). John is part of a panel discussion on burnout as part of the Boulder Running Clinics Winter Webinar Series. This is a series of 12 webinars, each roughly 90 minutes, that you can attend liv...
020 - Jonathan Dalby - Burnout in Coaching
November 09, 2020 17:37 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBJonathan 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 appearances, including in 2017 when the boys were third and the girls were sixth. Jonathan is part of a panel discussion on burnout as part of the Boulder Running Clinics Winter Webinar Series. This is a series of 12 webinars, each roughly 90 minutes, that you can attend live or watch/listen to the reco...
019 - Kim O'Malley - Burnout in Coaching
November 09, 2020 17:34 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBKim O'Malley is a former high school coach - nine years in both California and Colorado - who is a content developer for Girls On The Run International. Kim is part of a panel discussion on burnout as part of the Boulder Running Clinics Winter Webinar Series. This is a series of 12 webinars, each roughly 90 minutes, that you can attend live or watch/listen to the recordings. Visit BoulderRunningClinics.com to learn more about the webinar series and to register. Make sure to use the d...
018 - Jessie Magoto - Burnout in Coaching
November 09, 2020 17:28 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBJessie 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 how she keeps her energy high throughout the year. Jessie is part of a panel discussion on burnout as part of the Boulder Running Clinics Winter Webinar Series. This is a series of 12 webinars, each roughly 90 minutes, that you can attend live or watch/listen to the recordings. Visit BoulderRunnin...
017 - Special Covid-19 episode with Jeff Messer, PhD
March 23, 2020 19:53 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBJeff Messer, PhD, and Jay discuss how coaches and athletes can view training during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Messer references two papers and summaries them in this podcast. 1. Debunking the Myth of Exercise-Induced Immune Suppression: Redefining the Impact of Exercise on Immunological Health Across the Lifespan. Campbell JP1, Turner JE1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713319 2. The compelling link between physical activity and the body's defense system David C. Niemana,⁎ an...
016 - Tony Holler - Part 2
February 26, 2020 02:27 - 1 hour - 122 MBTony and Jay spend most of this episode focused on training, specifically discussing what distance coaches can adapt from the sprint world to improve performance. If you listened to episode 005 with Tony you know he strongly recommends distance coaches use wickets (aka mini-hurdles) with their athletes. He tweaks that suggestion a bit and points out that it's very common for distance runners to run a set of wickets with poor mechanics. He then goes into detail with a progression of drills ...
015 - John O'Malley, Dr. Jeff Messer and Jeff Boelé
February 17, 2020 15:40 - 2 hours - 213 MBThree former guests on the podcast discuss a variety of topics, starting with a definition of the term “speed” and how that term fits into the training of distance runners. Specifically, Jeff Boelé and John O’Malley discuss acceleration and why it may or may not be useful for distance runners. The conversation then moves on to a discussion of terminology across a spectrum of intensities, including threshold and vVo2max running. Later in the podcast John and Jeff Boelé address a question ...
014 - Tony Holler - Part 1 of 2
February 10, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBNote: 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 coached track for 38 years, football for 28, and basketball for 15. In June of 2019, Tony retired after his 38th year of teaching (Chemistry). He remains as the head track coach. Holler’s teams have won three state championships. In 2018, his Plainfield North team swept the sprints in Illinois, winning the 100m, 200m, 4x1, and 4x2, se...
013 - Scott Steffen
February 06, 2020 01:02 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBScott Steffen is the boy’s and girl’s coach at Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, IN. His boys team won the state cross country championship in 2019. Indiana has a single classification championship and Concordia Lutheran has an enrollment of just over 700 students. His boys went on to finish 4th at the NXR in unquestionably one of the toughest regions. In this podcast Scott talks about the challenges of coaching at a small school and the challenges of having a small team. S...
012 - Jay Johnson - New Format
February 03, 2020 15:25 - 15 minutes - 28.1 MBJust 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 about the 2020 Boulder Running Clinics, which is an example of the only ads that will be on the podcast - ventures that help Jay keep the podcast going. Please join his email list by going to coachjayjohnson.com. If you have a question that you'd like him to answer on the podcast please send it to jay...
011 - Jessie Magoto
January 02, 2020 19:18 - 1 hour - 259 MBJessie 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 cross country and won the track championship 2019. She has coached at Minster for 21 years. She coaches Sunni Olding who finished 10th and 5th at the Footlocker nationals. In this podcast we talk about the importance of athleticism and why she has her girls in the weight room. She strongly believes is one of the ...
010 - Kim O'Malley
December 21, 2019 14:49 - 1 hour - 174 MBKim O’Malley is a Youth Development Specialist with 20 years of experience designing and delivering leadership curriculum in a wide range of settings. Kim has been a public high school teacher, head cross-country and track coach, an outdoor trip leader, a parent education facilitator and a professional development coach, blogger, public speaker, mom, and seasoned ultra-marathoner. Kim’s coaching career began as an undergraduate student at Northwestern University when upon discovering the u...
009 - Alex Ostberg
October 02, 2019 21:34 - 2 hours - 332 MBAlex 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 the 2019 Boulder Running Camps titled, "The Ten Things I Wish I Knew As A High School Runner." Alex is passionate about both the sport and helping high school athletes improve, which makes this podcast is a must-listen for high school coaches and athletes. Alex has been running competitively for 11 ye...
008 - Dr. Rebecca Breslow
August 11, 2019 11:09 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBDr. 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, sports injury prevention, fitness and exercise. A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Breslow did her medical training at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. An internist by training, she joined the faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2010. Dr. Breslow is a life-long runn...
007 - Tonya McDonough
June 16, 2019 05:56 - 42 minutes - 20.2 MBTonya McDonough is the girls cross country and distance coach at Iowa City Liberty High School in Iowa City, Iowa. This conversation focuses on summer training for high school girls, specifically Tonya’s three juniors who want to make a jump this summer. The starting point for the conversation is a brief overview of the concepts she learned in Jay’s Fundamentals Education Course, then the two go in-depth about factors that must be considered regarding summer training: heat and humidi...
006 - Howard Russ
January 16, 2019 16:57 - 48 minutes - 22.5 MBHoward 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 OHSAA Division One state championship, and Russ had his first state champion individual with junior Taylor Ewert. Ewert is a 4-time All-American including a 3rd place finish at NXN and 4th place at Footlocker in 2018. She was also the New Balance Outdoor National champion in 2000 meter steeplechase in 2018. ...
005 - Tony Holler
January 13, 2019 02:24 - 2 hours - 122 MBTony 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 Meet, setting two state records. He’s been coaching high school athletes for 38 years. Tony is the owner of “Feed the Cats,” a system for training sprinters that is being implemented throughout the United States by high school track coaches. He is also the co-owner of Track Football Consortium, a site where he not only writes on...
004 - Jeff Messer
January 09, 2019 14:36 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBDr. Jeff Messer serves as department chair for the Exercise Science Department at Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona. Dr. Messer also serves as a volunteer assistant coach for boys' cross-country and track-&-field at Desert Vista High School, Phoenix, AZ. In addition, Dr. Messer serves as a personal coach for professional runner Jessica Tonn. Dr. Messer is the former head coach for girls' cross-country at Xavier College Preparatory (Phoenix, AZ.) and Desert Vista High School....
003 - Jeff Boele
January 06, 2019 06:05 - 1 hour - 108 MBJeff 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 coaching the jumps at Lyons High School, just north of Boulder. He took the challenge of becoming a great jumps coach seriously, and that meant taking a deep dive into the speed and power world. Jeff has a tremendous understanding of how distance runners can benefit from that training. We get a bit technical during the interview,...
002 - John O'Malley
December 31, 2018 19:15 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBJohn 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 have run under 1:58 and 9 under 1:54 under his guidance. This interview with John O’Malley was recorded in November of 2018, soon after a disappointing cross country season for his team. John talked about elements in the program he’ll be working on in 2019. John’s candor during this first part of the interview is really special...
001 - Chris Lear
December 27, 2018 21:50 - 1 hour - 164 MBWhat 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 Running with the Buffaloes and Sub-4. Most people don't know that Chris broke 4:10 for the full mile as a high school athlete, and was an All-American, running the 1,200m leg of the DMR for Princeton, when they finished fourth in the NCAA. Chris talks about his training in high school and highlights elements that high school coaches w...
Welcome to the Coaching Runners Podcast
December 27, 2018 20:17 - 7 minutes - 16.6 MBWelcome 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 their programs to the next level. Jay interviews coaches at all levels of the sport, as well as athletes, sports scientists, and medical professionals. These interviews, ranging in length from 60 to 120 minutes, are released on Sundays. Most Wednesdays shorter episodes are released, featuring content ...