RunBlogRun presents Socialing The Distance, Featuring Coach Danny Mackey of the Brooks Beasts Track Club

RunBlogRun presents Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder Featuring Coach Danny Mackey of the Brooks Beasts

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This is the complete interview of Coach Danny Mackey, and we have reposted it to provide some background on our feature on Josh Kerr and Danny Mackey. The coach/athlete relationship, and especially a successful one, is quite complicated. What makes such a relationship successful? That is what we are trying to ascertain.

Danny Mackey is a coach who understands that coaching is both an art and a science. Mackey has been the coach of Brooks Beasts since its founding in 2013. Danny is an absolutely fun interview.

We have spoken with Danny Mackey on several occasions and learn something new each time. Like most successful coaches, Mackey knows that he will continue to learn from his experiences and that coaching is about evolution.

Danny Mackey is a positivist. He is close with his athletes and is enduring COVID-19 like the rest of us.

One day at a time, he knows that his sponsor, Brooks, gives him the room to succeed with his athletes.

It was a well-spent 40 minutes.

Thanks to Danny Mackey and Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts for the production.

RunBlogRun presents Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder, Featuring Coach Danny Mackey of the Brooks Beasts

Jump to any topic with these timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction

0:36 – Typical Coaching Day

1:57 – Coaching Changes with COVID

3:33 – Plans for races in 2020

5:12 – Experience at the 2020 Olympic Trials Marathon

8:56 – Athletic Careers/shelf life

14:08 – Garrett Heath

15:56 – Katie Mackey

16:31 – Biggest lesson learned coaching the Brooks Beasts

21:23 – Total athletes in Beasts TC

22:43 – What does Brooks want to achieve with the Brooks Beasts?

25:34 – What do you love about Coaching

27:23 – How do you motivate your runners?

29:27 – On The Blocks: 3 Words to Describe Athletes

30:56 – Do you have a favorite Coach (Coach Role Model)?

32:06 – Epilogue

To learn more about Coach Mackey, check out this interview, https://www.runblogrun.com/2018/05/danny-mackey-explains-it-all-the-strategy-behind-training-for-the-800-meters.html

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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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