Summary: In this episode, we have a special guest, the director of Track and Field at Georgetown, Mike Smith. In an in-person conversation at the Olympic Trials we discuss innovation within coaching. With the three of us having been in the collegiate and post-collegiate world we discuss the tendency for the NCAA system to lock coaches into a stale state where we get stuck utilizing certain patterns of training. We get locked into a 7 day cycle with Saturday races and the church of the Sunday long run. We start to become reactive coaches, seeing only as far as the next race this upcoming weekend.<br> Starting with the perils of the NCAA system and having to be ready for Cross-Country, Indoors, Outdoors, conference meets, Penn Relays, Stanford, and so forth, we then venture out into the world of coaching as a whole. This 50 minute sit down conversation is all about 3 coaches drinking coffee and asking if there is a better way. Consider this podcast an exploration on how we continue to innovate as coaches and put ourselves in position to, despite our constraints.<br> Steve and Jon<br><br> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/stevemagness">@stevemagness</a><br><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/jmarpdx">@jmarpdx</a><br> <br> <br> Subscribe:<br> <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63029&refid=stpr">Subscribe on Stitcher</a><br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/magness-marcus-on-coaching/id961516002">Subscribe on iTunes</a><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceofrunning/MMpodcast">Subscribe through RSS</a><br>
