Here’s How Kids Break School Records

Published December 8, 2025

Today, I want to focus on a few powerful things that the Track Training System can help you and your runners with over the coming season.

Let’s start with how it can help your kids set PRs throughout the season.

PR’s All The Time?

The reality is that when the weather is nice, and the competition is good, your kids should PR most of the time.

That might sound like I’m out of touch with reality, but I can assure you that I’ve seen this exact thing happen for many coaches who use the Track Training System.

For example, coach Scott Aker’s boys not only ran big PRs last spring, but they also broke school records from 800m-3200m.

“We’ve used the Track Training System for two years. It takes all of the guesswork out of planning training for athletes competing in many different distances.

The TTS is a program for all athletes, regardless of their ability. Our young, inexperienced athletes hit lifetime PR’s while our high level athletes experienced unprecedented success for our school.

Our 4x800, 1600, 800, and 3200 school records were all broken multiple times for our boys, and we had state qualifiers in each of those events for the first time in the history of our program.

I give the TTS two thumbs up!”
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- Scott Akers, Ohio

As I explained in last week’s emails, for PRs to happen all season, your runners need:

• A dynamic warm-up
• A progression of volume for easy runs
• A progression of volume for challenging aerobic workouts
• A progression of volume for race pace workouts
• A plan for strides that lead to “real speed” (starting the first day of practice)
• Thoughtful post-run strength and mobility training

The Track Training System has been carefully crafted by me to show you exactly how to structure your team’s training to give those things to your runners for the full 20 weeks of your next track season.

You have enough to focus on in your work life without having to figure out how to design 24 weeks of training that will set your runners up to PR all through the season, and maybe even set some school records.

The Track Training System will save you dozens of hours of time while giving you a proven method to help your kids set PR’s and stay injury free for the entire season.

Speaking of injuries…

Here’s How You Keep Kids Injury-Free

Sixteen years ago, I came up with a routine - based on what I had learned from a mentor - that focused on Hip Strength and Hip Mobility.

I called it Myrtl because Myrtl rhymes with “hip girdle,” and this routine focused on that area.

These days, Myrtl has been replaced by the Strength and Mobility - SAM routines.

But doing 5-10 minutes of SAM after a workout isn’t enough to guarantee kids will stay injury-free.

To do that, you need a complete progression of post-run work, which is all laid out in detail in the Track Training System. It’s well-designed and gradually gets more challenging as the season progresses.

Second, you need a progression of volume for all the running - easy runs, challenging aerobic workouts, and race pace workouts.

In the Track Training System, there are over a dozen plans for every level of runner, from kids who did just 30-minute long runs this fall, to kids who ran 90-minute long runs, to kids who will come out for the first day of official practice having done nothing.

My system is NOT a cookie-cutter system. If it were, there would be one or two training plans for all of these kids.

Here’s what Coach Honea has said about how the Track Training System helped his kids stay injury free…

“We started with the TTS going into track of 2023, and added the XC Training System in the fall.

One of the big things for me was trying to eliminate injuries. We had a very talented freshman in 2022 who missed several meets while dealing with shin splints, and he was so frustrated with being hurt, he didn't even run track that season, or cross country as a sophomore.

That runner came back for track this spring, and working within the Track Training System, stayed healthy while getting back into the sport.

He ended up breaking our school record in the 800 four times, finishing with a 1:55 that was third in the state meet. Obviously, a hugely talented athlete, but the key was keeping him healthy enough to enjoy the sport.”

If that last sentence doesn’t get you - “healthy enough to enjoy the sport” - then the Track Training System isn’t for you.

Why?

Because our sport is very simple…

If a high school athlete can stay injury-free, run 5-6 days a week, and run the workouts you assign, they’ll (a) love the sport and (b) PR over and over.

Training For Your Athletes - Peace Of Mind For You

Here’s the bottom line: You want your athletes to stay injury-free and run PRs. And you want to leave the last track meet of the year knowing you did everything in your power to make that happen.

In order for you to pull those things off, you need the right training for them, and you need a system that is both effective and organized so you can focus on the relationships with the athletes, rather than scrambling to figure out the week’s schedule every Sunday night.

The Track Training System has helped over 500 coaches get their kids to the championship races in April and May, ready to PR, without those coaches wasting hours of time each week trying to figure out how to structure the whole season’s worth of training on their own.

These coaches don’t leave the track the final day of the season with that dreaded feeling that things didn’t “click” at the end and that they could have done more for their kids.

The Track Training System includes…

• 24-week plans for every athlete on your team
• Race pace workouts for 800m, 1600m, and 3200m
• Post-run strength and mobility routines that will keep kids injury-free
• Weight room workouts
• Speed development workouts
• Priority email support with me
• Five live classes where you can ask me questions and learn from other coaches
• All the videos and training documents available on both your computer and phone

And you get lifetime access, including all the updates (and I update the system every year).

A Special Bonus For You: Eight Free Copies Of Consistency Is Key

If you sign up for the Track Training System before registration closes on Thursday, December 11th, you'll get eight free copies of the second edition of Consistency Is Key: 15 Ways to Unlock Your Potential as a High School Runner.

The second edition has three new chapters: Mental Skills, Health Science, and Recruiting. Plus there are two new team profiles - Niwot and The Woodlands. If you bought the old book - the one that was square - you're going to want this updated version.

This bundle of books would cost you $118 on Amazon, but you'll get them for free.

Free "The Craft of Coaching" Course

There have been over 60 videos of presentations at the Boulder Running Clinic that I started hosting in 2018. I've taken some of the best presentations from the clinic and a few videos from the Mental Skills Course, then added some short videos where I share how these presentations have shaped my coaching.

It's called "The Craft of Coaching" because it will help you hone your craft as a high school running coach.

I'm not going to sell this in the future. In fact, it will only be available when you get the TTS (or the XC Training System).

But you'll get this course - which, if I were to sell it, would cost $95 - for free when you sign up for the Track Training System.

Free Access to The Complete High School Runner

This is a course I created for coaches who want to help their athletes with mental skills, nutrition, and recruiting - everything beyond your training plan.

It includes a 55-minute self-talk presentation from Katie Follett Boelé (a licensed professional counselor and former professional runner), a comprehensive nutrition module with Maddie Riley (a registered dietitian and former elite athlete), and recruiting fundamentals every family needs to understand.

Over 300 coaches have used this content successfully with their teams. One coach told me the nutrition presentation was "hands down the best presentation on nutrition through the lens of a distance runner" he'd ever seen.

This course sells for $85, but you'll get it for free when you sign up for the Track Training System.

That's $270 Worth of Free Bonuses

Between the books ($90), The Craft of Coaching course ($95), and The Complete High School Runner ($85), you're getting $298 worth of free training materials if you sign up today.

…but this offer ends this Thursday, December 11th, right after the first live class of the Track Training System that night.

That class will happen at 8:30 pm ET/5:30 pm PT.

This is the best time of the year to invest in your program and to set your kids up for a season full of PRs.

If you have any questions about the program, just hit reply and ask me. I'll get back to you in less than a day.

Let's make 2026 your program's best season yet!