s5/e02 The Runners Who Became Coaches: Our Stories! with The Running Explained Coaching Team
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Coaching isn’t just about writing workouts—it’s aboutguiding, supporting, and adapting to each athlete’s needs. This week, Coach Elisabeth welcomes FIVE of the Running Explained run coaches to chat about their coaching journeys, favorite races, fueling strategies, and whatreally matters when guiding athletes. From breaking down common coaching myths to exploring the deep impact of the coach-athlete relationship, this conversation highlights thehuman side of coaching—because coaching isn’t just about training plans, it’s about understandingyou!
We dive into the challenges and joys of coaching, the importance ofcommunication and trust, and why coaching is a collaboration, not a one-size-fits-all approach. Whether you’re a runner looking for guidance, an aspiring coach, or just love learning more about thewhy behind great training, this episode is packed with insights to help you run smarter, train better, and enjoy every step of the process.
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🎤Soundbites:
🗣️“Coaching is a two-way relationship with feedback.”
🗣️“Every runner, at every pace, deserves support.”
🗣️“Being intentional with goal setting matters more than chasing PRs.”
🗣️“Great coaching looks at the whole athlete, not just their mileage.”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Coach Elizabeth. My goal as a run |
| 0:06.8 | coach is to help you become a better, smarter, faster runner and help you achieve those goals |
| 0:12.7 | that you are chasing and feel amazing while you're doing it. Whether that's working one-on-one |
| 0:17.2 | with a run coach on the Running Explain coaching team, following a downloadable training |
| 0:21.2 | plan, or joining group coaching in the Run Club app, there is something for every runner and every |
| 0:26.1 | goal. This week, we have a very special episode. We are going to meet some of the Running Explain |
| 0:32.3 | run coaches and have a chat about coaching. You've met a couple of them already. You've met Nick, |
| 0:55.5 | you've met Amanda, you've met Jesse. They've all been in the show before. But we have a couple new coaches who have joined the team and some coaches that you haven't even met yet through the podcast. So I'm very excited about this conversation. We wanted to really give a peek behind the curtain about what run coaching is. There's a ton of misconceptions, kind of misunderstanding about coaching in the process and what it is and what it isn't and who can benefit and who might not benefit. And so I |
| 1:00.7 | really just wanted to take this time to help you get to know our coaches a little bit better, but also |
| 1:05.4 | understand like the run coaching process just a little bit more. And of course, if you are interested in working with any of our coaches one-on-one, or you want to learn more about group coaching, or you want to learn about my downloadable training plans, you can find all of that on my website, runningexplained.com. And if you do want to get started with one-on-one run coaching, that's a one-on-one run-co, that's a mouthful. You can visit runningexplained.com |
| 1:29.8 | slash run coaching and we'll get started. Hello and welcome back to the Running Explain podcast. |
| 1:36.1 | I am so excited today to be joined by five of the Running Explained, Amanda Mick, Nick, |
| 1:44.7 | Nick, Andrew, and Jesse. |
| 1:46.4 | And today we are going to be picking their brains, |
| 1:49.6 | getting to know them, and talking about run coaching. |
| 1:53.1 | There are so many questions about run coaching, |
| 1:55.5 | how to become a coach, |
| 1:56.9 | why even to work with a coach, |
| 1:59.0 | what run coaching is or isn't. |
| 2:02.4 | And I thought it would be a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone and, yeah, talk about coaching and meet some of |
| 2:08.0 | the coaches. So hello, everyone. You can all talk at once. You can go say hi. Hi. And don't worry, |
| 2:14.7 | it'll be going through individual introductions. You may have met some of these coaches on the show before, but I know that a couple of them may |
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