Inside the Mind of Coach to Olympians Dennis Barker

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🗓️ 26 August 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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I try to listen to your requests for podcast guests. One request that comes up often is to interview other coaches who are interested in sharing their coaching philosophies. Another is to hear from elite athletes to find out what life is like for them. In this interview we will be doing both. So expect to hear about what the life of an elite athlete is and how our guest coach prepares his group of elites for their races.

Dennis Barker has been the coach of Team USA Minnesota since its inception in 2001. Team USA Minnesota is a team of professional runners based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Coach Barker oversees the training of both male and femal [...]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.
0:12.0	And now your host, Tina Muir.
0:15.0	Hello, this is Tina Muir.
0:18.0	Welcome to another episode of the Rannis Connect Run to the Top podcast.
0:22.0	You may have noticed that I've been listening to your requests.
0:25.6	I've mentioned a few times that guests coming on the show are people I know you want to hear from,
0:32.0	and those of you who have been brave enough to reach out to me to share what you were looking for,
0:37.2	I've made sure we either get that person or we get someone just as good. And trust me, I'm trying to get some of the big names
0:44.6	you keep requesting, but so far no luck.
0:47.8	And one of the requests that we hear from often
0:50.2	is for other coaching philosophies.
0:53.0	Another is to hear from elite athletes
0:56.0	and kind of what life looks like for them.
0:59.0	Today, I was able to do both
1:01.0	by interviewing the head coach at Team USA Minnesota.
1:05.0	You're going to hear about the life of an elite athlete and what he does to prepare them for
1:10.6	their races. So my guest today is Coach Dennis Barker. He is the head coach at
1:16.4	Team USA Minnesota since formed in 2001. He's coached Olympians and professionals at distances for 800 to the marathon.
1:25.0	This includes 23 US national champions and he's coached athletes who have qualified for 29 US teams competing in world
1:35.4	championships at cross-country, indoor track, outdoor track and the road.
1:40.9	And he also has 72 top three finishes in the US Championships.
1:46.0	I'm sorry his athletes do not him.
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