Published May 7, 2025
I hope you and your athletes are doing well and that they are ready to have their best races of the year this week.
Three things to keep in mind, the most important being:
1. Keep instructions/race plans short and simple.
They’re fit and ready to go, and they know how to be uncomfortable. Don’t complicate things with complicated instructions.
…that said…
2. Remind them that if they want to do things they’ve never ...
This article is for high school runners who run the 800m or 1600m or 3200m and are "stuck" at a certain time/performance.
I know how incredibly frustrating it feels when you've been stuck at the same PR for weeks or even months. So, here are 12 tips from my 25 years of coaching that will help you break through to a new PR.
Before we dive into the tips, I need you to embrace two ideas.
The first is that you and your coach must agree on what the...
This is an article for high school track coaches, but athletes and parents may enjoy it as well.Â
The long run is a key workout in my training most months of the year. Both cross country runners and 1600m/3200m runners gain significant fitness from weekly long runs (or a long run every 10 days).Â
And...Â
When an athlete only has three or four weeks left in their track season, however, the long run should not be a key workout.Â
“But don’t we n...
