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Alex Gibby on Taking Harvard From 1 Point at the Ivy League Championships to Two NCAA Champions and What Separates Good Runners From Great Ones
Nobody builds a distance program at Harvard. Alex Gibby did it twice over
Alex arrived at Harvard in 2017 and inherited a program that had almost nev…
6 hours ago
Natasza Dudek, America's No. 1 High School Girl, on Sweeping NXN and Brooks XC, 35-Mile Weeks, and Growing Up With a National Champion Sister
Natasza Dudek only wanted a PR. She got history instead.
Now a junior at Ann Arbor Pioneer and the reigning Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Pla…
2 days, 6 hours ago
The Scientist Who Helped Eliud Kipchoge Break 2 Hours: Dr. Andy Jones on the Limits of Human Performance and Possibility
The woman who breaks four minutes in the mile has probably already been born.
That's the opening claim from Professor Andy Jones, the Exeter physiolog…
2 days, 23 hours ago
He Got Rejected by 217 Schools & Then Became Josh Kerr's Coach: Danny Mackey on the Road to the Mile World Record
After Josh Kerr's mile world record, Danny Mackey had 478 unread texts. He answered about 20 of them.
The founding head coach of the Brooks Beasts Tra…
5 days, 6 hours ago
Ranked 41st of 42 in the Northeast: Todd Witzleben on Bringing Back Manhattan University, a Program That Once Won an NCAA Title, and The Keys to Rebuild Any Program
Some coaches chase talent. Todd Witzleben builds it.
When Witzleben took over at Manhattan University in June 2025, one regional ranking had the Jaspe…
1 week ago
He Ran So Fast People Asked If He Was Doping: Vinny Mauri on the 138-Mile Weeks and the 30-Mile Long Runs Behind His Chicago Build
Vinny Mauri got drug tested at a Planet Fitness.
Five months after his 2:05:54 marathon at Glass City made him the fastest marathon debutant in Americ…
1 week, 2 days ago
Hit Singles, Take Walks: Sean McCafferty on the Boring Habits Behind 400 Straight Wins and How to Build a High School Cross Country Dynasty
Four hundred straight dual meet wins don't happen by accident.
Sean McCafferty, entering his tenth year as head cross country coach at Christian Brot…
1 week, 3 days ago
Ethan Strand’s Breakout Rookie Year: Beating Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Cole Hocker, Inheriting a US Title From a Doper, and Why He Says Doping Makes You “Just a Bad Person”
Ethan Strand is a national champion who still believes he finished second.
He found out Jonah Koech had been busted for doping in the middle of a trea…
1 week, 6 days ago
Nobody Is Watching. You Are: APL on Keeping Your Word to Yourself, Faith, and the Promise Behind Every Backyard Ultra Win
Aleksander Lingauer is stepping away from running. He says it out loud here for the first time.
This one was recorded in person in Columbus, the fourt…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
No Watch, No Mileage Log, No Fear: How Marcelo Mantecon Trains and Thinks as America's No. 1 High School Runner
Marcelo Mantecon has spent his whole career as the young guy. Not anymore.
The Belen Jesuit senior joins Dominic for the next episode of our Fleet Fee…
2 weeks, 3 days ago