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Jacob Thomson is a sub-13:30/28:00/2:16 guy who is now training in Flagstaff for the 2024 OT marathon. He’s also a coach and, through the business he and his partners have created (Thomson Training), he’s now helping other runners perform at the next level. In this episode we journeyed through his career as he went from top high school recruit, to SEC champion at Kentucky, to a 12th place finish at the Chicago Marathon. Listen for tips on training as well. One of my favorite stories he told was how a runner he coached skipped the 15s entirely en route to a 14:55 5K.

Update: Jacob wound up running 2:11 at the 2022 California International Marathon (USA championship) and took 2nd place overall.
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Laura has coached hundreds of runners and is completing her masters degree in applied exercise science. In this episode we really get into the physiology of training. What you’ll hear will either confirm what you already know or introduce you to the most novel and evidence-based approaches to training.
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Jason was a 4:48 miler in high school who went back to his alma mater as a coach and now continues their winning tradition. Jason teaches and coaches at St. Joseph Ogden High School, one of the top XC and track programs in the state of Illinois. In this episode we talked about the importance of building relationships and having fun. We also talked about consistency and the general outline of their training.
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Amanda is a highly sought after coach and lifestyle entrepreneur. Through her writing and through the online communities she’s created, people who once thought themselves to be slow and “not really a runner” have been emboldened to enjoy running for its own sake, pursue their goals, and view themselves in a new light. In this episode we talked about how she’s evolved as a runner over the past 20 years, what she considers to be important when coaching other runners, and some general training principles that have guided her work. Among these are low intensity training and the value of building strength. You can purchase a copy of Amanda’s latest book “Run to the Finish: The everyday runners guide to avoiding injury, ignoring the clock, and loving the run” here:

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Dennis Barker is the author of “The River Road.” He’s coached at many different levels throughout his career. The 2:25 man from Minnesota coached at Augsburg University for 20 years. He also coached 2004 Olympian Carrie Tollefson and her Team USA Minnesota teammates. We covered a lot of ground on this episode from how he was exposed to high quality aerobic training in college to how he now prescribes training for a wide variety of athletes.
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Jacob has a masters degree in kinesiology and works with a variety of athletes to improve their strength and conditioning. He’s been coaching since high school and owns his own commercial gym in Sandersville, Georgia. In this episode we talk about the training errors he made early on his career and how he’s improved over time (14:33 5K). It’s great to hear a guy who would like to take a shot at an OTQ marathon someday talk about the importance of max velocity training and power lifting.
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Mike Fanelli’s entire professional career has revolved around track and field in one way or another. From his days as a club runner where he went 2:25 in the marathon to his days as a distance coach for Team USA to the work he’s done since then to promote the sport as an agent, commentator, archivist, and writer. Now Mike is 65 years old and his love for the sport shows no signs of decay. He is still running (in fact he’s training for a marathon on the 50th anniversary of his first one) with over 113,000 miles in his legs to date and is looking forward to coaching at the high school level soon. As always we pick the coach’s brain on training and Mike, as usual, never fails to deliver to the track nerd audience.
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Dante Ottolini has coached at the HS, collegiate, and professional level. He coaches Nathan Martin, the fastest black marathoner born in the United States (2:11:05). In this episode we go deep into the experiences that have shaped Dante’s career up to this point and that have enabled him to guide the training of a potential Olympian. This is a long one but I think you’ll appreciate the breadth and depth of Dante’s reflections.
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Mike is a coach for Luke Humphrey Running and an original member of the Hansons Distance Project. His personal best in the marathon is 2:14:22. He is also the Disney World Half Marathon course record holder (1:05:26). In this episode we traced through his running career and touched on his coaching/training philosophy.
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Peter Thompson is the performance director of the Spirit of Oregon club and is one of the world’s leading experts on coaching education. He’s been coaching for over 50 years and he worked for the IAAF for about 20 of those years. Peter believes very strongly that we need to move from knowledge-based coaching to competence-based coaching. We also touched on lactate dynamics, biokinetics, and what he calls the new interval training method.
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