All right. We're live from the Cidious Cafe here at the Hoka Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York City.

And we're joined by the one and only NAZ elite head coach, Jack Malaney. Jack, this is what, year two on the job?

Year two, yeah, yeah. I actually started the week after the Chicago Marathon last year.

So how are you feeling?

Yeah, really good, really good.

It's been a pleasure just to work with all of our athletes up in Flagstaff.

We have a great staff in place as well and just really have enjoyed the transition and working

with our athletes.

Yeah, so for you, I guess, to go from Portland to now handling some of the best on the

track, qualifying people for the Olympics, having people run crazy PRs all throughout the year.

What's like the most rewarding part of the job?

I think really just seeing the pleasure that the athletes get in their own development. We had some

great moments over the course of the last year. Adrian Weldskid getting 10th at the Olympics.

He ran seven races this year, and every single race he ran, he either set a national record,

won, or did both. So it was a great year.

And so like for somebody like that, just to see them go through that and have these

breakthroughs every single time they said foot on the track was really exciting.

And there's been plenty of others too, but really it's just that journey of, I always say like

the pleasure of being a coach is that you get to bear witness to the process of what goes on behind the scenes.

You know, the fans only get to see what people do for a performance, but you get to kind of know what's actually been going on, all the ups and downs.

And being able to kind of bear witness to that process is such a pleasure because it makes those great moments mean even more. Yeah. What do you feel like was the hardest part transitioning from

coaching collegiately to now coaching on the professional level? Yeah, that's a good question. I think,

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