John O'Malley discusses how the 800m is different than XC, and the mentality needed to run the race well. Visit CoacJayJohnson.com to learn more about the Mental Skills for High School Runners course, which this excerpt is from. Enjoy!

027 - Mental Skills for 1600m

Mar 7th, 2023 49m 12s

Here from John O'Malley, Shannon Thompson, Kelly Christensen, and Sinclaire Johnson. You can find the full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr-510ZW1Ac&feature=youtu.be More mental skills videos at www.coachjayjohnson.com/mental_skills

026 - What should you do when an athlete is ill?

Mar 5th, 2023 9m 32s

In this mini-episode Coach Jay explains what coaches should do when an athlete is ill. Hint: Lowering the volume, but expecting them to run workouts that replicate the demands of the race is the way to go. Let's go!

025 - The best way to use Tuesday meets

Mar 5th, 2023 10m 48s

In this mini-episode Coach Jay talks about how to use Tuesday meets to get kids ready to run fast at a Saturday invitation.

024 - Alex Lyons - What Makes a Great Teammate

Jan 10th, 2021 1h 5m

This is an excerpt from Alex's presentation at the Boulder Running Camps 2020-21 Winter Virtual Camp. It's a fantastic presentation and both the athletes and coaches who were fortunate to learn from Alex. If you're a coach and you want your at

023 - Speed Work: What does it mean?

Nov 21st, 2020 41m 30s

In this episode, Jay Johnson explains why he doesn't use the term speed work. He goes into detail about how he thinks coaches should use the term speed. It's his contention that the term 'race pace work' can often be used to assign training to

022 - Alex Lyons

Nov 21st, 2020 2h 4m

Alex Lyons is a tremendous coach and I'm so happy he not only joined me on the podcast, but that's he's part of the Boulder Running Clinics 2020-21 Winter Webinar Series. Alex is the girl's coach at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Il

021 - John O'Malley - Burnout in Coaching

Nov 9th, 2020 57m 31s

John O'Malley is the boy's cross country and track coach at Sandburg High School in Orland Park, Illinois. He is the only person to have coached two Footlocker national champions. On the track, his boys ran an average time of 7:44 in the 4 x 80

020 - Jonathan Dalby - Burnout in Coaching

Nov 9th, 2020 45m 7s

Jonathan Dalby is the girl's and boy's coach at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. His teams have won multiple state titles in cross country and have made multiple NXN appearances, including in 2017 when the boys were thir

019 - Kim O'Malley - Burnout in Coaching

Nov 9th, 2020 55m 49s

Kim O'Malley is a former high school coach - nine years in both California and Colorado - who is a content developer for Girls On The Run International. Kim is part of a panel discussion on burnout as part of the Boulder Running Clinics Winter

018 - Jessie Magoto - Burnout in Coaching

Nov 9th, 2020 38m 39s

Jessie Magoto, the girl's cross country and track coach at Minster High School, in Minster, Ohio, is my guest on this episode. We discuss burnout in both coaching and teaching. Jessie explains how she keeps her energy high throughout the year.

017 - Special Covid-19 episode with Jeff Messer, PhD

Mar 23rd, 2020 52m 4s

Jeff Messer, PhD, and Jay discuss how coaches and athletes can view training during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Messer references two papers and summaries them in this podcast. 1. Debunking the Myth of Exercise-Induced Immune Suppression: Redefi

016 - Tony Holler - Part 2

Feb 26th, 2020 1h 28m

Tony and Jay spend most of this episode focused on training, specifically discussing what distance coaches can adapt from the sprint world to improve performance. If you listened to episode 005 with Tony you know he strongly recommends distance

015 - John O'Malley, Dr. Jeff Messer and Jeff Boelé

Feb 17th, 2020 2h 35m

Three former guests on the podcast discuss a variety of topics, starting with a definition of the term “speed” and how that term fits into the training of distance runners. Specifically, Jeff Boelé and John O’Malley discuss acceleration and wh

014 - Tony Holler - Part 1 of 2

Feb 10th, 2020 1h 56m

Note: Explicit content in this episode. Tony Holler (@pntrack) is the head track coach at Plainfield North High School in the Chicago area. Tony Holler has coached track for 38 years, football for 28, and basketball for 15. In June of 2019, Ton

013 - Scott Steffen

Feb 6th, 2020 1h 11m

Scott Steffen is the boy’s and girl’s coach at Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, IN. His boys team won the state cross country championship in 2019. Indiana has a single classification championship and Concordia Lutheran has an enro

012 - Jay Johnson - New Format

Feb 3rd, 2020 15m 8s

Just a quick update to let you know that a new episode will be released every Monday. Most episodes will be interviews, but every so often Jay will do a Q&A. Jay goes into a bit of detail about the 2020 Boulder Running Clinics, which is an exam

011 - Jessie Magoto

Jan 2nd, 2020 1h 52m

Jessie Magoto is my guest on this week’s podcast. She is the girl's coach at Minster HS in Minster OH, a town of 3,000 people. Minster has won four state championships in a row in cross country and won the track championship 2019. She has coach

010 - Kim O'Malley

Dec 21st, 2019 1h 16m

Kim O’Malley is a Youth Development Specialist with 20 years of experience designing and delivering leadership curriculum in a wide range of settings. Kim has been a public high school teacher, head cross-country and track coach, an outdoor tri

009 - Alex Ostberg

Oct 2nd, 2019 2h 24m

Alex Ostberg is currently entering his 5th year at Stanford University, where he has been an All-American in both cross country and track. This podcast is rooted in a presentation Alex did at the 2019 Boulder Running Camps titled, "The Ten Thin

008 - Dr. Rebecca Breslow

Aug 11th, 2019 1h 19m

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 injury prevention, fitness and exercise. A g

007 - Tonya McDonough

Jun 16th, 2019 42m 55s

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 Tonya’s three juniors who want to make a jump

006 - Howard Russ

Jan 16th, 2019 48m 18s

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 One state championship, and Russ had his first

005 - Tony Holler

Jan 13th, 2019 2h 28m

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’s been coaching high school athletes for 38 y

004 - Jeff Messer

Jan 9th, 2019 1h 50m

Dr. Jeff Messer serves as department chair for the Exercise Science Department at Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona. Dr. Messer also serves as a volunteer assistant coach for boys' cross-country and track-&-field at Desert Vista High School