Socialing the Distance, Featuring Garrett Heath, Head of Sports Marketing at Brooks & former Brooks Beasts TC / Professional Runner, Episode 127

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Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder

#TheJourneytoCompete: Ten Athletes Talk Cross-Country, Tips from the Nine athletes from the SWOOSH Track Club (Flagstaff) and their guest, Moh Ahmed!

#TheJourneytoCompete, Cross Country: Cross-Country Training Tips from the members of the SWOOSH Track Club (Flagstaff)!

The Brooks Run Guide Interviews, Episodes 1-10, Fall/Winter 2025

Featuring Garrett Heath, Head of Sports Marketing at Brooks & Professional Runner

Garrett Heath was named Head of Sports Marketing at Brooks Running just a week prior to the 2023 BAA.

Boston Marathon.

Garrett has had a long career in running, beginning at high school, then at Stanford, and for fifteen years as a professional runner, including a decade

as a Brooks Beasts TC. Garrett Heath competed as a cross-country runner and track athlete, then moved to roads and trails.

In this interview, which was done just weeks after the 2023 Boston Marathon, we speak with Garrett about his new job, the move from runner to running

business, and the new lessons he is learning in his new position.

Also, here are some fascinating observations about Olympic bronze medalist Josh Kerr.

I also enjoyed Garrett’s observations on Jesse Williams and his thoughts on the Sound Running events and their effect on the sport.

A final admission. I have spoken with Garrett for over a decade and always observed his observations, and his love of the sport is quite obvious.

So happy to see such a friend of the sport in the business of the sport.

Good luck, Garrett Heath!

Oh, and a final treat, Garrett Heath was our RBR Athlete of the Month in 2016 after his big cross-country win in Edinburgh, Scotland: https://www.runblogrun.com/2016/02/satvrbr-garrett-heath-runblogruns-cross-country-athlete-of-the-month-for-december-and-january.html

Find Garrett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_garrettheath

Find Garrett on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garrettheath/

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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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