Socialing The Distance featuring Lance Brauman, Clip 5, &#8211; Diamond League Champs vs World Champs

RunBlogRun presents Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder, featuring Coach Lance Brauman, PURE Athletics

Lance Brauman is the coach of the PURE Athletics. Among Brauman’s athletes, one would find Shaunae Miller Uibo, 2016 Olympic champion at 400m, and Noah Lyles, 2019 WC at 200m. While he coaches mostly sprinters , he also coaches one long jumper, and advises a decathlete.

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We spent 40 minutes with Lance, via Zoom a couple of weeks ago.

I have always admired Lance, and have been lucky to observe him with his athletes. Lance instills confidence in his athletes. He teaches them how to hone their skills, and manage the challenges in the world of elite athletics.

This is clip 5 of the Socialing the Distance series on Lance. The topic is how Lance Brauman worked with his long jumper, Jazmin Sawyers, during COVID-19.

Special thanks to Lance Brauman for his time and the Shoe Addicts (Mike Deering and Adam Johnson-Eder) on capturing the interview, and managing the production!

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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