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Chris Lear – Episode 001 – Coaching Runners podcast

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 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 will find useful.

I ask Chris what the one thing a high school coach can do tomorrow that Mark Wetmore and Ron Warhurst do with their athletes.

Chris also talks about the role talent plays in distance running.

Thanks Chris for kicking off the podcast with a great interview!

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Running with the Buffaloes at 20: Author Chris Lear reflects on the running cult classic in an in-depth interview.

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This episode of the Coaching Runners podcast is brought to you by my Fundamentals Education Course and the Boulder Running Camps.

If you have questions or comments, please email me at Jay@CoachJayJohnson.com.

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Coaching Runners Podcast

Welcome to the Coaching Runners Podcast. I’m your host for this podcast.

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.

I interview 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 from High School Running Coach and the Boulder Running Clinics.

If you have questions or comments, please email Jay at Jay@CoachJayJohnson.com.

Enjoy the show!

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Q&A: Minutes vs. Miles? Can Easy Days Be Too Easy?

What following is a transcript from the Run Faster Podcast. Thank you Jim – the four questions you sent were great and no doubt questions other readers and listeners have had. Click here to download a PDF of the podcast.

Hello, this is Jay Johnson and welcome to the Run Faster podcast. Today is a Q&A, so if you don’t like Q&As, you can fast forward. If you do like Q&As, that’s great. I hope you’ll enjoy this and that means that there’s no guest today. It’s just you and I. Okay? Four questions came from a reader. Jim. This was in response to a newsletter and I really appreciate these questions.

They’re rooted in a really good understanding of the information I’ve been putting out via the newsletters. I believe Jim has read Simple Marathon Training. If he hasn’t, I would be surprised given that these questions are in some ways rooted in the information in that book. I am going to come back to Simple Marathon Training at the end of this podcast in a little bit of a plug but more, and I’ll use this as an example.

I’m working with a couple new people who aren’t running the marathon and yet all of the things I believe in that apply to distance running, whether you’re a high school athlete training for the 1,600m or you’re an adult training for ultra marathons, it’s still the crux of it is in the Simple Marathon Training book. The marathon training is obviously different in that the focus on the long run and needing to utilize fat is important.

Okay, but I digress.

Here’s the four questions and we’ll see if you’re interested in listening further.

First question. ‘Do you always prescribe minutes to even advanced runners? If so, why?’

Second question. ‘Can you run your easy days too easy?’

Third question. ‘During your fundamental phase, do you see value in hill sprints as well?’

Forth question. ‘During your fundamental phase, do you see value in starting to progress a moderate speed long run in distance to prepare for marathon-specific training?’ [Read more…]

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