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John Marcus

Jonathan "Jon" Marcus (aka John Marcus, @jmarpdx) is a distance-running coach, director of High Performance West in Portland, OR, and co-host of the Science of Running / On Coaching podcast with Steve Magness.

Jul 4, 2026

6:59
John, do you remember the first thing you got in trouble for as a kid, if you ever got in trouble?
7:05
I sure did.
7:06
It involved my twin brother, who we were just talking about.
7:11
I got in trouble.
7:13
We liked ordering things from the Johnson Smith catalog.
7:17
It was called it was a novelty catalog out of Indiana.
7:21
I think we get all these little pranks and jokes and things.
10:02
I want to hear the truth anyway.
JamesHOST
27:34
Yeah.
27:35
"Let's, let's have a crack." And I'm, I'm not gonna lie, we, we, we sat there and had a conversation going, "There is a Best New Entrant award.
27:41
Like, I think our beers are at a point now where we're, we're probably able to try and, um"-
RyanADVERTISER
31:19
Yeah.
31:19
Um, it just...
31:22
Yeah, like it, it, it literally started m- my wife.
31:26
Um, she, you know, her, her, sorry, her dad was home brewing with the old kit and kilo, you know, the Coopers cans.
31:34
Um, never actually brewed in my life.

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