Ep 9: Do Hard Things, Favorite Teachers & The Longest Race (with Tammy Draughon)

Tammy Draughon joins Doug to talk about The Longest Race by Kara Goucher, but the conversation quickly becomes about much more than running. Doug and Tammy look back on nearly 30 years of friendship, beginning as young teachers at Enloe High School, and talk about teaching physics, coaching high school runners, doing hard things, surviving the Boston Marathon bombing, parenting, faith, and the responsibility coaches have to the young people in their care. Then they turn to Goucher’s memoir and its account of abuse, power, silence, and finding one’s voice inside the Nike Oregon Project. It is a conversation about endurance in every sense: in classrooms, on race courses, in families, in faith, and in friendship.Music by Eiren Caffall. Please check out her music on Spotify and visit her website at https://www.eirencaffall.com/.Chapters: 00:05 — Tammy Draughon and The Longest Race 01:13 — Thirty years of teaching, physics, and finding a calling 07:42 — Running, coaching, and becoming California Coach of the Year 11:29 — Do Hard Things 16:46 — Coaching herself, marathon training, and Boston goals 20:09 — The Boston Marathon bombing 24:56 — Family, faith, and the empty nest 27:11 — OK, now the book: The Longest Race by Kara Goucher 30:10 — Power, abuse, and finding your voice 35:18 — Reading Kara Goucher as a woman, runner, and coach 39:33 — Boston dreams and racing together