Podcast appearances and mentions of chris lear

In this episode, I talk about the major themes and lessons I drew from Chris Lear's book, Running With The Buffaloes, which follows the the 1998 cross country season of the Colorado University Buffaloes men's team. It provides some very unique insights into the mind of legendary coach, Mark Wetmore, as well as members of the team, like Adam Goucher, Mike Friedburg, Jay Johnson, and Chris Severy. I enjoyed the book so much that I listened to the audiobook twice in a row. If you want some context for how much further and faster you may be able to push your body before it breaks, this provides some useful lessons. It will probably get you fired up for a long run, too! 

If you like wasting your time on pointless activities, join us as we talk to Chris Lear from the Magpie Crossword Magazine and discuss why humans enjoy puzzles. In this podcast, we explore the weird and wonderful world of the cryptic crossword community. We also try to solve the puzzle of why we willingly devote time and energy to tasks which are deliberately designed to be difficult and have no obvious benefits. Finally, you can try your hand at answering one of our guest’s fiendish clues. Answers on a postcard to Aleph Insights. A few things we mentioned in this podcast: - Magpie Crossword Magazine: https://www.piemag.com/ - Categories of insight: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/3857/Categories%20of%20insight.pdf;jsessionid=EC7EB351382427E244C7566AC18448C3?sequence=1 - Need for Cognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_cognition - Need for Cognition and the Big 5: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223989709603517#:~:text=Significant%20positive%20direct%20relationships%20were,and%20engage%20in%20effortful%20thought - SPOILER ALERT: Chris Lear gives an example clue in this episode. Want to check the answer after you have listened? Scroll to the bottom of these notes. Find more Cognitive Engineering episodes here http://podcast.alephinsights.com and for more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com Image: Karlo Pusic via Stock Snap . . . . Answer to Chris Lear's example clue: ‘Taylor’s hit a brown-to-black clearance?’. The answer to this is ‘TWENTY-TWO’, and the clue is in a particular cryptic form known as the ‘double definition’. In this case, the two definitions are ‘Taylor’s hit’ and ‘a brown-to-black clearance’. The first definition refers to Taylor Swift’s 2012 hit ‘22’, and the second is the score for a brown-to-black clearance in snooker. What makes this a great clue is the consistency of the ‘surface reading’ (what it looks like the clue means), which seems to refer to the 1980s snooker legend Dennis Taylor. In addition, the clue has several components that might mislead a cryptic crossword fan - e.g. the word ‘hit’ which could indicate an anagram, the word ‘black’ which often means the letter ‘b’, and the word ‘Taylor’ which might look like an alternative spelling for ‘tailor’, which again could indicate an anagram.

Become a LetsRun.com VIP: Join our Supporters Club: Exclusive content, exclusive discounts (extra 20% off running shoes right now), and if you sign-up by Sept 1 a free 1:59:40 GOAT T-shirt. Details here: https://www.letsrun.com/subscribe You fall racing season get cancelled? Just want to train smarter? The LetsRun.com Fall Training and Racing Program is here. Train with the best. Details here: https://www.letsrun.com/fall Running with the Buffaloes author Chris Lear was our surprise guest @ 66:32 to talk cheater spikes, gambling, whether Alan Webb & Adam Goucher are clean and stock picks. Before that -Karsten Warholm threatened the World Record in Stockholm, Donavan Brazier and Timothy Cheruiyot kept winning, Laura Muir kept impressing, London showed why it's the top marathon in the world, Galen Rupp & Mo Farah updates, and NCAA XC in the spring? Got feedback? Email pod@letsrun.com or call us 844-LETSRUN (844-538-7786) and hit option 7 to leave a voicemail. (Rojo's deep voice disappears 5 minutes in) Show notes: Start: Warholm in Stockholm, Warholm v Benjamin and Samba 9:37 Donavan Brazier, Laura Muir 20:11 Japanese 1500m record at Tokyo Olympic Stadium 25:41 London THE Marathon of 2020 34:55 Galen Rupp update 36:01 Forgotten Runner of the Week: Mo Farah 39:54 Virtual NYC Marathon, what marathons if any will take place in US this fall? 42:03 Will return of fans at NFL lead to return of racing? 48:54 Sunset Tour & King Cheserek, Final Big Friendly meet 56:35 NCAA XC in the Spring? 64:42 Message Board Thread of Week: The Obesification of the U.S. 66:32 Running with Buffaloes Author Chris Lear End- Bonus content: Rojo Rant PS Please tell one friend about us or rate and review us on apple podcasts. Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/4408cb98-9d93-4bea-a79e-a4c188603704

What does it take to build positive injury experiences and inclusive teams? I sit down with five individuals to discuss these questions. Guests include Marisa Turner, assistant track and field coach at Williams College, Chris Lear, author of Running with the Buffaloes, Ethan Barron, head coach of men's track and field coach at Williams College, Jordan Carpenter, head coach of men's Cross Country/Track and Field at Pomona-Pitzer and Alex Gibby, head coach of mens and women's cross country at Harvard University,

(HOKA NAZ Elite Coach Ben Rosario joins podcast for an hour at 83:53).Noah Lyles beat Christian Coleman for the first time ever at 100m and we may have the rivalry the sport needs. JUCO star Kenny Bednarek pulled a sub 20/sub 45 double that is almost unheard of but Michael Norman may have had the best 200 of the weekend. What about 100/200/400 high schooler Matt Boling? We have sprint talk the first 20 minutes of the podcast. Then a little discussion of another World Marathon Major (21:48), before we turn to discussing whether Paul Chelimo is in trouble or just starting the season more slowly because Worlds are later in the year (26:45). Then Running with the Buffaloes author Chris Lear is a surprise caller and he tells us about Noah Lyles parents and how Lyles' dad was great Seton Hall sprinter Kevin Lyles (35:48). We then discuss Sydney McLaughlin's Diamond League debut (40:00) and the incredible Shaunae Miller-Uibo. Our listener audio of the week (47:43) is from Fred and he wins a free pair of HOKA Carbon X shoes which are now here and he talks how hard it is to watch pro track and field in America and Jonathan Gault's love life and being a minority on LetsRun. We talk Gwen Jorgensen's surgery, the Bowerman Track Club and Alberto Salazar at 58:12 before discussing pro women runners and Alysia Montaño taking on Nike in the quest to get paid maternity leave (64:23). We then talk controversy at the Iowa State meet and deleted threads of the week at 74:09, before HOKA ONE ONE NAZ Elite Coach Ben Rosario joins us at 83:53 for an hour talk. The NAZ Elite group has been on fire of late with a 2:09 by Scott Fauble in Boston, 2:26 marathons from Kellyn Taylor and Aliphine Tuliamuk, a USA half marathon title by Stephanie Bruce followed up by a 5k PR 2 weeks later.

This episode begins with a short introduction including announcements about a live podcast recording at Rogue on May 17th with Michael Wardian and Charlie Engle. We will do a run at 6 pm and then Q&A with Michael and Charlie at 6:45/7:00 pm. You can find event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/300818644149908/ Then at 7:15 into the episode, the audio begins from my live (with audience) recording with Chris Lear. We talk about the story behind the book Running with the Buffaloes and about how he dropped everything to pursue this idea. We talk about his methods to capture the story and how he made ends meet with his job at CompUSA while finishing the manuscript. Then, we talk about the story itself and what he learned from Adam Goucher, Mark Wetmore, and the team. Plus, we dig into his second book Sub 4:00 about Alan Webb in his first and only season at the University of Michigan and then find out where Chris is now. 

Ryan Hall stopped by the Running Rogue podcast studio in February, and I am excited to release this interview with him on his new book: Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step. The book covers lessons from Ryan's career as an elite-level marathoner as well as his new passion in weight training. Ryan Hall needs no introduction, but he a two-time Olympian and the fastest ever US marathoner with a PR of 2:04:58 and also the current US half marathon record holder.  You can pre-order the book here and then purchase it after its release on April 16th. https://www.amazon.com/Run-Mile-Youre-Finding-Every/dp/0310354374 Details from the intro: - Event with Chris Lear at Rogue on April 4th: https://www.facebook.com/events/539074903282944/ - Boston Marathon meet-up opportunity: Sunday, April 14th from 2-3 pm at the Westin Copley, 7th floor, Empire Room.

In this episode, we jump straight into the interview with Adam Goucher on the book Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear. The book chronicles Adam’s pursuit of the NCAA Cross Country title in 1998 at the University of Colorado.  Adam (aka Mr. Kara Goucher) is a 4 time NCAA champion, Olympian in 5K and has the highest US male finish in World Cross (6th) since 1986. He now runs the business Run the Edge with his friend Tim Catalano. Learn more about Run the Edge and their Run the Year challenge at www.runtheedge.com.

If you don't follow the sport of ultrarunning outside of the big trail races, you may not know the name Geoff Burns…but you should. Geoff is one of the top road ultramarathoners in the US; he is the 2016 national champion at 100K, and has finished fifth at each of the last two 100K World Championships. He's also a doctoral student in biomechanics at the University of Michigan, and he joined the show to help get us back in touch with our science-of-the-sport roots. We talked about running for the Wolverines (2:30), his recent research on stride frequency (9:30) and the implications it has for training and racing (28:00), the utility of wearable power meters for runners (36:30), representing the US in international competition (45:20), his experience at Comrades (where he placed 12th) in 2018 (52:30), his plans for 2019, and more.LinksGeoff's paper in JAPAlex Hutchinson's article on Geoff's research (our interview with Alex here)Chris Lear's Sub-4:00, about Alan Webb and Michigan runningDesert Island Picks: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoefsky, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, Trader Joe's Beef Tamales, Taylor's 1963 Vintage Port

What a pleasure it was to interview my friend Chris Lear for the first episode of the Coaching Runners podcast. Chris is known primarily as the author of Running with the Buffaloes and Sub-4. Most people don't know that Chris broke 4:10 for the full mile as a high school athlete, and was an All-American, running the 1,200m leg of the DMR for Princeton, when they finished fourth in the NCAA. Chris talks about his training in high school and highlights elements that high school coaches will find useful. I ask Chris what the one thing a high school coach can do tomorrow that Mark Wetmore and Ron Warhurst do with their athletes. Chris also talks about the role talent plays in distance running. Thanks Chris for kicking off the podcast with a great interview! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This episode of the Coaching Runners podcast is brought to you by my Fundamentals Education Course and the Boulder Running Camps. If you have questions or comments, please email me at Jay@CoachJayJohnson.com

20 years after he won the NCAA individual cross country title, Adam Goucher joins the CITIUS MAG Podcast to take a trip down memory lane and re-visit that special 1998 Colorado Buffaloes team. The story of that team is captured vividly in Chris Lear's book "Running With The Buffaloes." We talk at length about that book and that team. We hit on Colorado and legendary coach Mark Wetmore's training philosophy. We also take some listener questions including the tough one...Adam has to assemble his all-time Buffs top 7. Episode 100!! Thanks to everyone who has supported the show and helped us get to this point. --- This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Kudos. They're our new partner and they're providing a great new way to show off race medals. Check them out at www.kudos2u.com/citiusmag/ If you hit that link and get yourself a coaster, a portion of the sales come back to CITIUS MAG so that we can continue producing these shows that you enjoy. Follow them on Instagram: www.instagram.com/akudos2u/

Episode Thirty Seven (Chris Lear)

After reviewing our new years resolutions, author Chris Lear joins us to talk about his running, writing Running with the Buffaloes and Sub 4:00. We have an in the news update, your tweets, and more.

Author, and former Princeton All-American runner, Chris Lear discusses the inspiration, motivation, and process behind writing the books Running With The Buffaloes and Sub 4:00. Chris also discusses the conclusion of Alan Webb’s remarkable professional running career.