Coaching Runners Podcast

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, sports …

Tonya 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 T…

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 OHSAA Division O…

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 Meet, setting two state records. He’…

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 coaching the jumps at Lyons High Schoo…

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 have run under 1:58 and 9 under 1:…

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 pe…

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 their progr…