Coach Pat Henner Shares Exclusive Insights On Improving As A Runner in 2025 From His FOURTY Years As A Successful Coach + Insights From Coaching Hobbs Kessler In Speed Development

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast is an exploration and deep dive into how to go from "good" to "great" in the sport of running in the coming months, and many insights on training, racing, and well-being. All with Coach Patrick Henner, one of the greats.

If you're not familiar with Coach Henner, Coach Henner has coached Mike Smith (current coach of NAU), Chris Miltenberg (current coach of UNC, formerly Stanford), Brandon Bonsey (current coach of Georgetown), and more in his tenure. He has also coached studs Isaiah Jewett and Will Sumner over the past few years.

This past year, Coach Henner worked extensively with Hobbs Kessler going into his performances at the US Olympic Trials, where he placed in the top-3 in both the 1500m and 800m to send himself to the Paris Olympics, where he then went on to place 5th in the 1500m.

Prior to successful coaching stints at Georgia & USC, Henner was the director of track and field and cross country at Georgetown from 2007-15, and prior to that he had spent eight seasons as the Hoyas' head men's cross country coach and assistant coach for the men's and women's track and field team. Henner's coaching resumé also includes a nine-year stay at James Madison, where he led both the men's and women's cross country teams to their first CAA titles, trained 28 track and field All-Americans, and was twice named CAA Coach of the Year. He began his coaching career at Blacksburg High in Blacksburg, Va., where both the men's and women's teams won state championships in 1984, 1985, and 1986.

In today's conversation, Coach Henner and I dive-deep into training theory, speed development, the things great athletes do during this next month of the year, his thoughts on racing, lessons and insights from working with Hobbs Kessler, and so much more.

This one is PACKED with wisdom from truly one of the greatest coaches of all-time. You'd be a fool not to listen. It's free wisdom.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You've got to focus on the process, the process of training and the process of racing.
0:07.0	And let's say you're doing all the training and it's all up to the level that it should be.
0:12.0	And now it's time to race. You've really got to focus on the process of racing.
0:16.0	And I break that down into effort, execution, leadership, and fun.
0:21.6	And if you, pretty much any race that you run, if you can check off those boxes, you're either
0:27.6	going to have a good or a great race.
0:30.6	And if it didn't go well, you can usually look at one of those boxes and you didn't do something
0:35.6	very well in one of those boxes. And the thing I like
0:39.1	about those boxes are they're under your control? That's Coach Patrick Kenner and today's
0:49.7	podcast is an exploration and deep dive into how to go from good to great in the sport of running
0:55.2	in the coming months as you guys are approaching a new year 2025. And we also dive into so
1:00.9	many insights around training, racing, and well-being, all with the man, the myth, the legend,
1:06.0	coach Henner. If you're not familiar with Coach Henner, he's coached some of the greatest
1:10.0	coaches in the NCAA in NCAA history, quite frankly. He's coach Coach Henner, he's coached some of the greatest coaches in the NCAA
1:11.4	in NCAA history, quite frankly.
1:13.6	He's coached Mike Smith, who's now a head coach of NAU, Chris Miltonberg, who's coach of
1:17.8	North Carolina, formerly of Stanford, Brandon Bonzi, current coach of Georgetown.
1:22.1	I've had all three of those on the podcast before.
1:24.7	And he's also coached so many studs, including Isaiah Jewett, Will Sumner.
1:28.7	And this past summer, he also coached and worked extensively with Hobbs Kessler going
1:33.3	into his performances at the U.S. Olympic trials, where I'm sure many of you guys are familiar
1:37.5	with his results where he placed top three in both 800 and 1500, qualifying him for the
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