It was my senior year of high school, and I had one last chance to achieve my goal: winning a state cross country title! Things were looking pretty good, I had an undefeated year so far and felt confident as I stood on the line waiting for the gun to go off. Bang! Soon we were coming up on the last 400 meters of the race, and as I dug down for a finishing kick, instead I began to see fuzzy stars. Next thing I knew, I was on the ground. I stood up, but could only make it a few

What are the benefits of a harder warm-up before a race or hard workout? This is a crude example, but think of how you feel when you roll out of bed and go for an hour run. When do you feel best? The first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes? In a workout, do you feel best the first 400 or the 3rd 400? In a warm-up, you are trying to take that principle and apply it to racing. You want your sympathetic nervous system to be primed and ready to go from the gun. What does a typical wa

Love that quote? Us, too. And it’s just one of the reasons why we’re pumped to share an exclusive interview with Brooks Beasts member Katie Mackey. She’s been with Brooks Beasts since it was created in 2013 and has PR times of 4:04 in the 1500m, 15:04 for 5K, and she ran on Team USA in last year’s IAAF World Relays 4x1500m team and placed second in the mile at the 2015 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Plus, she’s just downright cool and runs for all of the right reas

The middle-distance star has been setting PRs and winning big since joining a team. As they jogged 15 minutes up a dirt road in Sedona, Arizona, Katie Mackey and her Brooks Beasts teammates chatted about how their track workout at the local high school might unfold at 4,500 feet above sea level. The Seattle-based middle-distance group of 14 athletes, including Angela Bizzarri and Nick Symmonds, spent much of March and April sharing a house in nearby Flagstaff, where they hope

· What does a typical week of workouts look like for you? Usually we do two hard workouts a week on Tuesdays and Fridays to incorporate some sort of race-specific speedwork, tempo threshold running and aerobic training. Every Sunday, we do a long run of 90 minutes to two hours. These used to be my least favorite of the workouts, but now I kind of look forward to them! One of the most important parts of the week is the recovery run, we do these on Mondays and Wednesdays