The Microcosm Coaching Podcast helps endurance athletes—whether you're a road runner, trail runner, or training for your first marathon or 100-miler—get more out of their training with evidence-based advice, effort-based coaching, and expert mindset support. Hosted by professional coaches and athletes, each episode explores practical strategies for race prep, running recovery, mental performance, and sustainable training. If you want to build fitness, avoid burnout, and find more joy in running, you're in the right place.
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 03/17/2023:
This episode is all about planning for your first ultra, but veterans, don’t stop listening. There are tons of important takeaways that can be applied to ath…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 03/03/2023
This episode is all about beginner runners, but if you aren’t a beginner, don’t stop listening. There are tons of important takeaways that can be applied to at…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 02/24/2023
We all have a really special guest this week, he’s written a new book called The Big Thing Effect: How to Transform Your Life Forever.
This book will grab …
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 02/10/2023:
Today’s call is all exploring the concept of building confidence through a running lens. In this call, we define confidence as our belief in our ability to ac…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 01/27/2023
Today’s call is all about developing your mental performance toolset! We hope that by providing these techniques you’ll be able to build out your mental perfo…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 01/20/2023
The “Never Enough” mentality and approach to work, life, relationships, and financial status is an ever present part of today’s culture. It shows up everywhere…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 01/13/2023
As many athletes on our team continue to get their race schedules ready for 2023, we wanted to start this year's calls off with the question, How does an athle…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 12/16/2022:
This week's call is split into two sections, the first encompasses a really interesting, and ongoing discussion with athlete, coach and chaplain Chris Morgan …
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 12/09/2022:
On this week's call, we go into a deep dive on the menstrual cycle and birth control and their impacts on training. We discuss how athletes who menstruate c…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 12/02/2022:
On this week's call, you will hear from coaches Sarah Strong and Kylee Van Horn on their takeaways from the 2022 season. What went well, what they’d like to i…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 11/18/2022:
On this week's call, you’ll hear expressions of gratitude and reflections on 2022 from our team of coaches and athletes. Gratitude is one of the values we ho…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 11/11/2022
On this week's call, we took a deep look into our coaches 2022 seasons, discussing their high and low points. We focused in on some of the specific takeaways e…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 11/04/2022 We had a great call this week, diving deeper into the topic of mental setbacks and dealing with prolonged injury and illness. We started the conversation off …
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 10/21/2022
This week’s call consists of three parts. In the first part, we dive into the mental side of training setbacks. Coach Sarah Strong, our resident clinical socia…
On this week's call we dive into How to Respond to Training Setbacks! As athletes, it’s important to accept the inevitability of facing training challenges in training. From overuse to serious injuri…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 09/30/2022:
On this week's edition of Rapid, not so Rapid Fire Friday, we get into a ton of questions from our team and listeners. We start off by talking about traveling…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 09/23/2022
The long steep hill is my greatest frenemy! Nothing makes me cringe more when I look at my plan and see something like 6 x 3 minute steep hills mod/hard, 20 mi…
On this week's call we do a round-table Q&A session with Coaches Kristen Schindler, Drew Conner and Sarah Strong -- Our Conversation touches on air quality and treadmill runs, gear and planning for s…
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 09/09/2022
All things group runs! The benefits, the pitfalls, group run doubles, comparison traps & advocating for your training!
Microcosm Coaching Team Call 09/02/2022:
First, I apologize for the length of this call. I know it’s a bit longer than usual, but this was a big topic with many facets and nuances to touch on.
Ok, s…