Michel Foucault was part of a French revolution of history seeking deeper understandings of history beyond narratives of "great men" and their events. As a historian of the body and power, Foucault`s work is applicable to move endurance running coaches beyond the narratives of great coaches and their knowledges and practices. Discourse and knowledge are well-used concepts in Foucauldian coach scholarship, but specific Foucauldian discourse analyses are rare. Given endurance coaches aim to produce fast runners, adopting Foucault`s work could be both intriguing and compelling. Following, as faithfully as possible, Foucault`s discursive method, we analysed six of the most popular endurance running coaching textbooks to show how the endurance body can only be articulated as a machine, which may undermine coaches and their athletes` development and performances.
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