RunBlogRun presents Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder, featuring Lance Brauman, PURE Athletics
Lance Brauman is the coach of the PURE Athletics. Among Brauman’s athletes, one would find Shaunae Miller Uibo, 2016 Olympic champion at 400m, and Noah Lyles, 2019 WC at 200m. While he coaches mostly sprinters , he also coaches one long jumper, and advises a decathlete.
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Lance Brauman, at Adi Dassler stadium, 2016, photo by Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts
A fine athlete in high school and college, Lance is a no nonsense kind of coach. One knows where they stand with Coach Brauman. Once I asked Noah Lyles how he knows when Coach Brauman believes he was ready to race? “Coach smiles.”
We spent 40 minutes with Lance, via Zoom a couple of weeks ago.
I have always admired Lance, and have been lucky to observe him with his athletes. Lance instills confidence in his athletes. He teaches them how to hone their skills, and manage the challenges in the world of elite athletics.
This is clip 3 of the Socialing the Distance series on Lance. The topic of the clip is Noah Lyles’s win at 200m in Doha WC last fall. Noah’s win in Doha was his first global championship title, and the 200m event was spectacular, with a battle between three fine sprinters.
Special thanks to Lance Brauman for his time and the Shoe Addicts (Mike Deering and Adam Johnson-Eder) on capturing the interview, and managing the production!
Author
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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