Office Hours with Mark Coogan On Coaching Elle St. Pierre To Gold, Emily Mackay To Bronze At World Indoors
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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"When Elle races in a championship, I always say, ‘You want to be in the race with 400m to go for a shot at making the team or winning. Just give yourself a shot.’ Because you can’t control what other people are doing and you don’t know how the chips are going to fall. I was really confident she was going to be there with 400m to go. I was just watching her closely. I watched her chop her steps a couple of times and was thinking, ‘Gosh. She’s just chomping at the bit.’ I didn’t know she was going to beat (Gudaf) Tsegay because she’s run 14:00. But, (Elle’s) an animal."
This is an episode of Office Hours with Kyle Merber and Mac Fleet kicking back and chatting with coach Mark Coogan of Team New Balance Boston. We had a chance to just catch up with him at The TRACK at New Balance on our recent visit to Boston for New Balance Nationals and the NCAA Indoor Championships.
At this year’s World Indoor Championships, he was trackside to watch Elle St. Pierre win gold in the 3000m and Emily Mackay take bronze in the 1500m. He takes pride in the fact that he’s been able to help develop their talent coming out of the America East conference. He discusses what he looks for in athletes, how he carefully approaches their training intensity and how his philosophy has changed or not really with all of these modern advances.
Host: Kyle Merber | @kylemerber on Instagram
Host: Mac Fleet | @macfleet on Instagram
Guest: Mark Coogan | @mark_coogan on Instagram
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| 0:27.0 | Support for the City Smack Podcast comes from New Balance Running. I've been waiting a few |
| 0:35.0 | weeks to finally put this ad read together because I'm excited to share my review of the New Balance |
| 0:40.8 | SC Elite V4. It is the shoe that I wore to break three hours at |
| 0:45.1 | the Houston Marathon and now it could be yours. I had my first chance to try on a |
| 0:49.7 | pair with a secret all-white prototype at the New York City Marathon and I came away from that race a bit bumed about my time but with zero issues on my feet no hot spots or glisters and my legs weren't as beat up so So while I could have opted for any other shoe I stuck with the |
| 1:06.2 | SC Elite V force. It's got a new Piba fuel cell mid-sole and they updated the carbon fiber plate design to have a more four foot stiffness |
| 1:15.0 | so you get more pop than the other previous versions. |
| 1:18.0 | They also changed the upper to phantom fit so it secures your foot down. |
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| 1:25.4 | awesome. So if you're looking for a race day shoe, my recommendation right now is a new |
| 1:29.9 | balance SCLE v 4. If you're looking for some other new drops from new balance, there's a new |
| 1:35.0 | a new balance. There's a fuel cell rebel which is a lightweight everyday training |
| 1:38.2 | shoe that's out now. The old reliable Fresh Foam X 1080 also has some new |
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