The Journey To Compete, Episode 1, NIKE NIL coach, Juli Benson, Clip #3 &#8211; Discussing her approach to tempo runs for high

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The Journey To Compete

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Episode 1 with Juli Benson,

Clip #3 – Discussing her approach to tempo runs for high school athletes

This is clip 3 in The Journey to Compete: Coaching Tips, a collaboration between NIKE and RunBlogRun. We hope you enjoy it!

Coach Juli Benson is coaching some of the finest middle distance runners in the US, as well as advising up and coming athletes for the NIKE NIL program.

RunBlogRun spent some time with Coach Juli Benson, a 1996 Olympian, and her techniques on how to teach the hard lessons of our sport, this one, in clip 3 is on Tempo Runs.

Tempo runs are critical for the development of young middle distance runners. Coach Juli Benson offers a few suggestions, and emphasizes the individuality of athletes, new to the sport and elite to the sport, on tempo and their workout needs.

To view the entire 40 plus minute zoom interview with Coach Juli Benson, please go here: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/11/thejourneytocompete-interviews-episode-1-juli-benson-nike-elite-athlete-coach.html?swcfpc=1

Find all of our Socialing The Distance interview series here: https://bit.ly/34czL0e

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Find all of our Conversations with Larry here: https://bit.ly/30io2vY

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Special thanks to Mike Deering, original member of The Shoe Addicts, who edits, clips, manages and produces the podcast for Fortius Media Group, LLC and RunBlogRun.com.

Special thanks to Juli Benson for this thought-provoking interview and NIKE Sports Marketing for their kind support. NIKE Sports Marketing and NIKE running believes that we build the sport, one athlete and one coach at a time.

To learn more about NIKE Running, please go to www.nikerunning.com We highly recommend the NIKE Vomero Premium and the NIKE Pegasus PLUS ! (And the new NIKE Structure PLUS!)

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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