Thank you for taking some questions from the Colorado Coyotes Youth Running Club. Can you first tell us about yourself, your background as a runner, and your coaching career? I grew up in New York and New Jersey and went to high school in...
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One of my favorite books of 2018, was Alex Hutchinson’s “Endure: Mind, Body and Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.” Alex holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge and was a pretty quick runner in his day, with a PR of...
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Tabor, thanks for taking the time out of what I’m sure is a busy schedule for an interview with the Colorado Coyotes. I was thinking we could start with the past and work our way to the present. I think the first time I saw you and your family...
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Allen Iverson once said, “We talkin’ about practice, not a game, not a game, we talkin’ about practice.” Growing up, I thought practice was practice. If you wanted to get better at something you simply practiced more and...
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One of the most amazing cross-country running stories of 2017, was the Battle Mountain Huskies (Edwards, Colo.) girls cross country team taking third at Nike Cross Nationals back on December 2nd, in Portland, Oregon. A small high school in...
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Matt Canterbury has been the head cross country coach at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado for four years. We’d like to thank Matt for taking the time to answer some questions and to get the perspective of running for a...
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Prior to my senior year of high school, I attended the Luther College Distance Running Camp. It’s where I fell in love with Luther College and ultimately decided to run for the Norse. Dee Brown was heading into his senior year at Luther...
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University of Colorado coach Mark Wetmore has been the head coach at CU for 23 years. In that time CU has won seven national titles since 2000. His bio speaks for itself, Coach Wetmore is one of the top cross country coaches in...
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Steve Magness is the head cross country coach at The University of Houston and the author of “The Science of Running” and the upcoming “Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of...
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Alan Versaw has been the head boys and girls cross country coach at The Classical Academy in Colorado Springs since 2000. In that time he has led the boys and girls cross country teams to 15 state titles. In 2016, he was named the Colorado...
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You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Measure. Something I’ve always loved about running is that it’s not just a battle to determine the winner. Most kids will never win a race, in a race with 100 kids, only one can be the...
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One question I frequently get asked is what shoe should I run in, or should my kid run in. If you ask 100 Colorado runners what shoes they should run in, you’re bound to get 100 different answers. First let’s talk about running...
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