I have friends in high places, I had the opportunity to interview the Brooks Beasts Track Club, a competitive, professional middle-distance track runners’ club sponsored by Brooks Running. Compared to some of the more established professional running teams, the Beasts are relatively young, having been established in January 2013 with Head Coach Danny Mackey and 1500m/miler Katie Mackey. The last two years has seen the addition of 12 more runners from around the country, all t

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

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