Hello and welcome to Episode #78 of Everyday Runners, I’m Andy Fuller, the host of this podcast and also a co-founder of Reading Sideways Press.

Firstly, I always say thank you to the supporters of this podcast: Jochem, Bob, Dominic, Nesrine, Levi, Joao, Gianluca and the original Bob. If you find value in this podcast, and are a regular listener, and feel like supporting what I’m doing, feel free to head on over to the Buy Me a Coffee platform. Running this podcast has a lot of ongoing costs - inclusive of my subscription to podbean and purchasing of equipment.

Running, or, athletics in particular, is largely inseparable from coaching. So, although I’ve had a few of my coaches as guests, this is the first opportunity for me to explicitly explore some theoretical questions about coaching. Two experts who have critically explored coaching, are Dr Zoë Avner from Deakin University in Australia and Kristi Skebo from the University of Alberta in Canada. I was drawn to their work for their use of Foucauldian thinking and the theories of Deleuze and Guattari in their article “Coach development as assemblage: mobilising assemblage thinking to examine coach learning within an endurance-running coach development intravention” published in Sports Coaching Review in 2024. Their work helps us to think about how we coach, how different kinds of agencies affect the practice of coaching and how ‘dangers and opportunities’ can be navigated in the athletic coaching space.

I hope you enjoy this episode and until next time - doi doi

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