2017 HOKA ONE ONE Coaching Series, Part 6: Tom Nohilly, on how high schoolers should use fartlek

Tom Nohilly made the World Championships in the steeple in 1995 and 1997. What he learnt from his time as a high school, college and elite athlete he has used in his coaching. As an assistant coach with the HOKA ONE ONE New Jersey New York Track Club, Tom works with some of the finest developing elite American athletes.

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Tom Nohilly was asked the question, how do you use fartlek, or ‘speed-play’ with young athletes. Here is his response.

Special thanks to HOKA ONE ONE for their support of the HOKA ONE ONE Coaching series and to The Shoe Addicts, the digital partner of RunBlogRun for the filming, and project management.

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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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