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Jorge Torres

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61 minutes

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Feb 19, 2015

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2002 NCAA Division I Cross Country Champion, 1998 Footlocker Champion and 2008 Olympian for the United States at 10,000m, Jorge Torres is the first guest on the Run Faster Podcast.

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Feb 19, 2015

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Adam Goucher: Adam Goucher is our fourth guest on the Run Faster Podcast. Adam won the 1993 Footlocker National Championship as a high school athlete, beating Meb Keflezighi. He attended the University of Colorado and ran for Coach Mark Wetmore. Adam... by Run Faster Podcast
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Dr. Jeff Messer - Part 1: Dr. Jeff Messer is both a high school coach and an exercise physiologist. He is widely recognized as one of the best high school coaches in the country. This interview is a rebroadcast of an interview between Jay Johnson and Dr. Messer from... by Run Faster Podcast
64 min listen
Doug Petrick: Doug Petrick is a serious runner, a high school coach, a high school educator and a father with young children. He's extremely busy, as are many of the listeners of this podast. I coached Doug online for a season and he did a great job... by Run Faster Podcast
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Travis Macey: Travis Macey is the author of the book, The Ultra Mindset. He's is a competitive adventure racer and ultra marathon runner. This a great interview that covers a variety of topics. by Run Faster Podcast
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Nate Jenkins: Nate Jenkins is our seventh guest on the Run Faster Podcast. Nate is an American marathon runner who has taken the time to share his training logs over his career at nateruns.blogspot.com. Nate does a wonderful job explaining why he does what... by Run Faster Podcast
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Bob Kennedy: Bob Kennedy joins us for the third episode of the Run Faster Podcast. Bob won both the high school national championship, which was then called the Kinney National Championship, and won the NCAA Division I Cross Country Champions as both a... by Run Faster Podcast
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Lee Troop: Lee Troop is my guest on the fifth episode of the Run Faster Podcast. Lee represented Australia in three different Olympics. He broke Ron Clarke’s Austrailian national record in the 5k, a record that stood for 33 years. He then... by Run Faster Podcast
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Steve Magness: Steve Magness is not only a guest on the Run Faster Podcast, but he’s one of the speakers at the Boulder Running Clinic’s July 2015 High School Coaches clinic. Steve is many things: A coach, scientist, author, blogger and now a... by Run Faster Podcast
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Bart Yasso: Bart Yasso is our sixth guest on the Run Faster Podcast. Bart has the title of Chief Running Officer at Runners World. What is that you ask? Bart explains in this interview. Bart has been running for 38 years and has a wealth of... by Run Faster Podcast
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Charlie Kern - Excerpts from High School Running Coach: Charlie Kern is the boys track coach at York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois. This podcast is a collection of excerpts from his full interview on High School Running Coach. He talks about the face that caring for athletes is more... by Run Faster Podcast
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Dathan Ritzenhein: Dathan Ritzenhein is a three-time Olympian who is working hard to make his fourth Olympic team in 2016. Prior to becoming one of the best professional runners in the U.S. and in the world (with a marathon best of 2:07:47 and a half-marathon best... by Run Faster Podcast
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Vern Gambetta: Vern Gambetta is one of the premier strength and conditioning coaches in the world. But, unlike many of his peers, his roots are in track and field. He considers himself a coach, first and foremost. Many of you are familiar with his... by Run Faster Podcast
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Dr. Jeff Messer - Part 2: This second interview with Dr. Messer is a rebroadcast of his interview with Jay Johnson for High School Running Coach. Dr. Messer is widely considered one of the best high school distance coaches in the country and in this interview he discusses in... by Run Faster Podcast
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Mike Callor - Excerpts from High School Running Coach: Coach Callor has had success with both boys and girls teams, both in cross country and track. He has coached footlocker finalists and teams that have both made NXN and run well there. High School Running Coach is lucky to have Mike as a... by Run Faster Podcast
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Alia Gray: Alia Gray recently finished 10th in the women's U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. She was one of only three competitors to run a PR at the event, as the starting temperature was 73º and the temperature at the finish was 82º. She... by Run Faster Podcast
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Carwyn Sharp, PhD: Dr. Carwyn Sharp is, in my opinion, one of the brightest minds in endurance sports. He is the Chief Science Officer at the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Carwyn contributed significantly to my Simple Marathon Training book and in this... by Run Faster Podcast
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Jonathan Dalby - Excerpts from High School Running Coach: This episode of the podcast features excerpts from Jonathan Dalby's interview on High School Running Coach. Coach Dalby talks about the social side of running and building a culture of running in the high school setting. He also addresses how... by Run Faster Podcast
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Dan Iverson - Excerpts from High School Running Coach: Dan Iverson is the girls coach at Naperville North HS in Naperville, Illinois. This is a collection of excerpts from Dan's full interview from High School Running Coach. In this interview Dan talks about goals vs. targets, yoga, the... by Run Faster Podcast
22 min listen
Q&A with Jay: In this Q&A Jay talks discusses how fast you should run your long run, what to focus on when you improve your form and what are some of the key concepts in his upcoming book Simple Marathon Training. Join Jay's newsletter to get his best... by Run Faster Podcast
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Just Athletics Podcast Simulcast: This was a lot of fun - a simulcast with the Just Athletics podcast, hosted by Josh Rowe and Chris Johnson. Josh has worked with world class athletes in sports marketing at both Nike and New Balance. Chris is a hard working HS coach and English... by Run Faster Podcast
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John O'Malley: Coach John O'Malley is one of the best high school running coaches is in the country. He's had tremendous success as the boys cross country and track coach at Sandburg HS in Illinois. Not only has he had success in cross country, but his boys 4x800m... by Run Faster Podcast
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Dimity McDowell - Another Mother Runner: Dimity McDowell, along with her business parter, Sarah Bowen Shea, are the two mothers behind Another Mother Runner. AMR started as a blog, chronicling the challenges of being both a mother and a runner. AMR has three books for sale, a very popular... by Run Faster Podcast
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Mark Hansen - Part 2: A 7-minute PR in the half marathon since the last podcast! "You couldn't punch the smile off my face" is how Mark describes his post race excitement. In this podcast we talk about the eight weeks of training leading up to the race. We focus on... by Run Faster Podcast
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Dr. Richard Hansen - Part 2: Dr. Richard Hansen (@DrRichardHansen) joins us again and speaks on a variety of topics. Not only is he a world class chiropractor, but he's also the coach of the Roots Running Project, a group of elite post collegiate runners based out of... by Run Faster Podcast
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Amy Feit - Part 2: In this episode Jay and Amy discuss what she should do in her training now that she has identified that she can spend more time training. Simple question. Some of the answers will be obvious and some of the answers may surprise you. by Run Faster Podcast
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Zach Hancock: My favorite podcast thus far - which saying something as I love them all - due to the content and banter with one of my dear friends, Zach Hancock. Zach was the primary editor for my Simple Marathon Training book. We walk through the... by Run Faster Podcast
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