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About Carrie Lane

I love bringing my wide array of track and field training to a variety of athletes. I have found a great balance in combining my knowledge of speed/power training, endurance training, and rehab progressions as I have worked with athletes of all abilities from high school to professional runners to competitive weekend warriors. I design strength, speed, and rehab programs for all of these athletes to keep them durable and performing at their highest levels.

I am also an instructor for the USTFCCCA Coaches’ Academy, where I teach other coaches about periodized training program design, weight training, and biomechanics.

I currently coach professional distance runners in Baltimore who are sponsored by Under Armour.

Have coached Olympic finalists, a World Championships silver medalist, several World Championships qualifiers, an NCAA champion, and 24 first team (top 8) NCAA All Americans
Worked as an NCAA Division I coach for 22 years with stints at University of Virginia and University of Nebraska

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Podcasts, Blogs, and Articles
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Track and Field Performance Podcast: Carrie Lane: Integrating Strength and Speed with Endurance Athletes.
Coach Carrie Lane works with Under Armours Elite group of distance runners based in Baltimore Maryland. This episode provides insights into her current role as well as some of the key principles she uses to guide her training philosophy.

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Gill Connections Podcast Episode 112: Carrie Lane, University of Wyoming
Carrie Lane sits down with Mike Cunningham, National Sales Director, to discuss her career journey

HMMR Media Podcast Episode 252: Talking Shop
We’re trying something new on this week’s podcast. We don’t have a theme or key topic, we just have some friends on to share some ideas and see where the conversation goes. Adam Kuehl, Carrie Lane, and Brek Christensen join us to talk about rethinking peaking, the benefits of hiking for power athletes, the skillset of mid major coaches, and much more.

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May 2019: Freelap Friday Five: Building a Global Training Philosophy
Carrie Lane coached for more than 15 years in the NCAA system, with stints at Eastern Illinois University, Coastal Carolina University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Nebraska. Currently, she coaches the throwing events at the University of Wyoming...

July 27, 2018: Training Peaks Blog: Your Glutes Are Firing, I Promise
Have you ever been told that your glutes are not firing? This common explanation for injuries and gait issues has become overused and oversimplified; if your glutes were not firing, you would not be able to walk upright...

July 25, 2018: Training Peaks Blog: The Best Core Exercises for Runners
We all know that “doing core” is important ancillary work for endurance training efforts. However, traditional “ab circuits” (high reps, short rests) actually do very little to prevent injury or provide the stabilizing benefits we are really seeking with “core” work...

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May 2018: HMMR Media blog: The role of sprint training for endurance athletes
Over the past few years speed development sessions have gained traction among endurance coaches. Successful endurance coaches of all levels—from high school to post-collegiate– are adding true speed development sessions to their year-round training regimen.

February 2018: Techniques Magazine: Strength Training for Distance Runners. Versatile Conditioning Improves Balance and Encourages Longevity
Many good distance coaches recognize that a strength training regimen will enhance their athletes’ durability, coordination, and therefore efficiency of movement. But where to start? Even if coaches do understand how to interface strength with endurance, they face countless logistical challenges such as managing their team numbers safely, lack of a weight room, and many more. With all the time constraints encountered by high school, collegiate, and post-collegiate distance runners, strength and power sessions can easily fall...

Episode 142: The Coaches' Classroom/ by Martin Bingisser.
Formalized coaching education and certification has been around for a long time, but as sport evolves so has the education structures that support it. On this week’s podcast we’ve got a roundtable discussion with several track and field organizations to look at what changes are on the horizon for coaches education. Joining us are Mike Turk (USATF Coaches Education Executive Committee), Carrie Lane (USTFCCCA Track and Field Academy Instructor), and Darren Ritchie (Scottish Athletics Heading of Coaching Development).

Final Surge Podcast Episode 57: Carrie Lane
We talk to Carrie Lane, former track and field coach at the University of Nebraska and Virginia. Carrie is now a Sports Performance Coach and is a USTFCCCA Strength Certification Instructor. Carrie talks about strength training for endurance athletes, plyometrics, warm-ups before workouts, and much more...

August 2017: Carrie Lane Podcast: Strength Training for Runners.
I am a big believer in creating dynamic runners. Dynamic in the sense of motor skills and the ability to move explosively in every direction and in every plane of motion. Strong runners are durable runners who don't get injured and explosive runners can carry their speed out as far as the rest of their training will let them. This doesn't come from running endless miles. It comes from strength ...

HMMR Media Video Lesson 8: Lifting for Runners:
In this lesson instructor Carrie Lane discusses why distance runners should need to be strong and how they should integrate strength training into their plan. With a background as both an NCAA Division I distance and throwing coach...

June 2017: 3-Part Blog Series on Strength Training For Runners:
As a college athlete, our field event teammates called us distance runners the “skinnies.” For us, the weight room was optional and any organized training program was, well, disorganized. Things are starting to evolve more recently and many distance runners are no strangers to weight rooms now. But for those who coach the skinnies, strength training can still be an overwhelming world of muscle-bound information that is difficult to pare down to what is...

HMMR Media Podcast Episode 51: From Running to Throwing and Back Again (with Carrie Lane) /by Martin Bingisser. In various roles as a distance running coach, throwing coach, strength and conditioning coach, and physical performance specialist Carrie Lane has helped athletes in almost every capacity possible. Her career has also come full circle in a way: she began as a runner and distance coach, then worked with some of the world’s best throwers like Adam Nelson, and is now back working with a variety of individuals including endurance athletes...

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