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Chris Lundstrom is going to Paris!As head coach of Minnesota Distance Elite, Lundstrom gets to work with 2x Grandma's Marathon champion Dakotah Lindwurm, who qualified for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics via a third place finish at the US Olympic Trials in February.Not only does Lundstrom work with Lindwurm, he also oversees the training programs for several of the up-and-coming American distance runners from the team's home base in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.He joined the podcast to talk more about his team, formerly called Team USA Minnesota, and about the next few months as he and Lindwurm get ready to take on the Olympic marathon course in August.
Dennis Barker is the author of “The River Road.” He's coached at many different levels throughout his career. The 2:25 man from Minnesota coached at Augsburg University for 20 years. He also coached 2004 Olympian Carrie Tollefson and her Team USA Minnesota teammates. We covered a lot of ground on this episode from how he was exposed to high quality aerobic training in college to how he now prescribes training for a wide variety of athletes.————————————-Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/3OZQ_Ul-Tfs————————————-Support my work on Patreon and receive bonus podcast content: https://www.patreon.com/steadfastrunning—————————————Subscribe to my free newsletter:www.steadfastrunning.weebly.com—————————————To connect with Dennis:Website: www.coachbarker.comHis book “The River Road” is available here:https://www.amazon.com/River-Road-Becoming-Runner-1972/dp/1533191883—————————————To connect with me:Instagram: @steadfast_running Twitter: @coachmederosEmail: run12795@gmail.comAlso on Facebook and Linked In (Jonathan Mederos)
Dennis talks about his time at Iowa State and briefly holding the 10,000-meter record there, the most talented runner he coached at Team USA Minnesota, the Minnesota runners and the events of 1972 that inspired him to write "The River Road," the new book he is working on and why he's coaching track and field at a private college preparatory school. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lance-bergeson8/support
Carrie goes for a run with Team USA Minnesota runner Katy Jermann! They chat about her upcoming race at the Olympic Marathon Trials, her work as a teacher, and how she's worked through her history of injury.
As I sit down with Coach Lundo I jump right into a pressing matter of the summer - how to acclimate to the heat. He shares a tip he's had his runners in Minnesota use to do a winter to summer acclimation as well as how long he usually sees it take for real heat acclimation to occur. I ask him about how he came to running and he tells me about revelations he had as a kid about where his talents lay versus where his dreams wanted to take him. We then talk about his transition from shorter endurance races to post collegiate competition in the marathon resulting in his 3 olympic trial appearances. I pose to him a simple question: if sprinting is largely genetic, is long distance running also genetic or is it more trainable? In the middle of my talk with Coach Lundo I ask him about his work as head coach of Team USA Minnesota - how does he recruit athletes and what are their daily lives like? In an effort to help feel better about my own collegiate career being constantly sidetracked by injuries I ask Chris whether his time at Stanford was derailed at all by injury - his answer was at least a little comical. I ask him about one of his graduate research studies where he hoped to figure out how to accurately predict an athlete's marathon time through shorter distance testing. In the last segment of my talk with Coach Lundo I ask him about another study he conducted where he tested to see if there were any significant effects of using plyometrics for recreational runners training for a marathon. We talk a little about the problems with athletic studies - the shortfalls that are somewhat necessary and errors he sees in other studies that occur. A new study he's helping facilitate with a grad student seeks to verify data that's not easily attributed, but often cited from hillrunner.com As our talk winds down Chris shares a short, but funny story about adventures in modifying the default setup of a treadmill to accommodate marathon training for hilly courses. Shop the Solpri store at https://solpri.com
Carrie goes for a run with Queen of the Road Mile, Heather Kampf! Heather discusses the frustrations and challenges of dealing with injuries and how she's easing back into running. She also talks about her 2018 racing plans, and her aspirations after the sport. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Heather Kampf Heather is a 2005 graduate of Rosemount High School in Minnesota where her prep career included state titles in the 800m and 400m. At the University of Minnesota, Heather was the highest decorated Gopher women’s track athlete. She was a 9-time All American, NCAA champion, and the only Gopher to compete in every NCAA championship in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track during the time she attended the university. Heather joined Team USA Minnesota in December of 2009, was sponsored by Asics America in 2010, and became a Nuun elite ambassador in 2014. As a professional runner, she has raced in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 olympic trials (7th in the 800m in 2012), is a 4x USA 1 mile champion (2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016), and was a finalist for Team USA at the word indoor championships 1500m in 2014.
Carrie goes for a run with elite marathoner and former Team USA Minnesota member Michelle Lilienthal! They chat about the importance of training partners, taking time off training and Michelle's move to Portland, Maine. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Michelle Lilienthal Michelle is a four-time US Olympic Marathon trials qualifier, most recently qualifying for the 2020 trials at the 2017 Chicago Marathon. She is a former member of Team USA Minnesota and ran some her best races on Minnesota soil, including her marathon PR, 2:34 at the Twin Cities Marathon, and her half marathon PR, 1:11 at the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in Duluth. She currently lives in Portland, Maine with her fiancé, Marc, and cat, Squeaks. She works for Apple Inc. and is loving life running on the coast of Maine as a semi retired serious hobby racer.
Carrie goes for a run with Team USA Minnesota coach Chris Lundstrom! Chris discusses coaching, teaching at the University of Minnesota, and offers actionable advice for anyone looking to tackle the marathon. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Chris Lundstrom Chris is a native of Northfield, Minnesota and competed on the NCAA Championship track and cross country teams at Stanford University in the late 1990s. Following his collegiate career, he was an original member in 2001 of the Team USA Minnesota Distance Training Center. During his years as a competitive runner, he finished third (2001) and then fourth (2006) in the USA Marathon Championships, was a three-time qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials (2004, 2008, 2012), and represented the U.S. in the 2007 Pan-American Games marathon and in the 2010 World Mountain running Championships, with the team capturing the silver medal. As a coach, he has 18 years of experience at the high school, college and post-collegiate level including coaching seven women to the 2012 Olympic Trials Marathon, and coaching track and cross country at San Francisco State University in 2004-05 when he was on leave from Team USA Minnesota. In the Twin Cities, he coached cross country and track at Como Park High School in St. Paul from 2005-2012 and was named St. Paul City Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2010. More recently, he coached at Washburn High School in Minneapolis for three years and helped take the boys cross country team to state where it placed second in 2015, and also placed an individual second at state in the 1600 meters on the track. Chris is the Head Coach of Team USA Minnesota. He is responsible for recruiting, retaining, developing and managing a team of 10 to 12 male and female professional distance runners in events ranging from the 1500 meters up through the marathon – on the roads, track and in cross country. Chris has his Ph.D. in kinesiology (2015), with an emphasis in exercise physiology, and did his dissertation on running performance. He is well published and a well-regarded researcher and, along with coaching and competing, has been on the faculty for 10 years at the University of Minnesota. In addition to teaching classes in sport science, exercise science techniques, weight training and conditioning, and psychology of coaching, he developed the marathon training class and taught some 700 novice marathoners.
Welcome to Episode 59 of the Final Surge Podcast where today we welcome legendary coach Dennis Barker. Dennis was the long-time coach of Team USA Minnesota where his athletes achieved 75 top 3 finishes in US Championships and 29 different athletes made world championships teams. We talk about some fundamentals of training and his new book The River Road. How did you get your start in running? You founded Team USA Minnesota in 2001, at that time there was Team Hanson, Mammoth, maybe Oregon Project around that time, how has that team aspect lead to a resurgence in American distance success? We were solid in the 70’s and 80’s, and we have had this resurgence, what happened in the 90’s where the US fell off the map so badly? USATF teaches a strict periodization where coaches such as Salazar do more year-round training, how have you seen that change? You mentioned you ran a lot of local races. If you look at local 5k/10k runners, how should they structure their year of training? How does a coach who has coached 29 World qualifiers move to high school coaching? How is training different besides just the volume? Your new book The River Road is a novel, the running community had Once A Runner, was your goal to write the next great running novel? As you wrote this you got the chance to think about the last 30-40 years of running. What has changed the most over that time? Final Surge 5 questions in under a minute Favorite running book? - Coe/Martin Training Current trainers you are wearing? - Asics Favorite race? - Carrie Tolleson 1500 Final 2004 Olympic Trials Favorite recovery meal or recovery drink? - Octoberfest Beer Your favorite workout - 8x1200, 24x100m hills CoachBarker.com River Road Book Dennis on Twitter
I try to listen to your requests for podcast guests. One request that comes up often is to interview other coaches who are interested in sharing their coaching philosophies. Another is to hear from elite athletes to find out what life is like for them. In this interview we will be doing both. So expect to hear about what the life of an elite athlete is and how our guest coach prepares his group of elites for their races. Dennis Barker has been the coach of Team USA Minnesota since its inception in 2001. Team USA Minnesota is a team of professional runners based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Coach Barker oversees the training of both male and femal [...]