Coaching Distance

No Such Thing as Middle Distance. Loved the presentation by @SprintersCompen last evening on how to train runners built for the 400/800m. A couple of takeaways 🧠 14-day cycles 💡Variety in training stimulus / multi-factorial approach 🧪 Learn how he tests his athletes at the beginning of each season D-Crew Members, here's your link to the recording: coachingdistance.com/team-2/ryan-ba…

It’s happening…

Tonight 🔥🔥🔥

Tonight 🔥🔥🔥

Coach Ryan Banta @SprintersCompen (author of The Sprinter's Compendium) will share the webinar🔥No Such Thing as Middle Distance🔥 next Wednesday @ 6 PM Mountain. I love learning different ways to train athletes and I have a feeling this is going to be a good one. RSVP here! coachingdistance.com/team-2/ryan-ba…

Come join us for what should be a spirited discussion on the "long sprints." I will share details and methods I have yet to share in other presentations on the subject. @TrackCoachTG @CoachJTAyers @BrendanThompsn @CoachKurtHines @MikeCunningham @ITCCCA

@steven_montoya I like that!

@CoachDistance 1. When in doubt, do less 2. Start where you’re at and modify until you no longer need to 3. The goal should always be “that wasn’t so bad” and “I could have done more but I’ll be ready for tomorrow”

📢Coaches: it's a new track season. How are you integrating kids who are just starting with your crew that's been training all off-season?

@CoachDistance New guys get a 3 week try out period where we have them learn expectations, learn how to run distance, have a Time Trial after 10 days, and decide after 3 weeks if they want to continue with us or not. Slowly scaffold expectations after that 3 week try out.

@steven_montoya @CoachDistance Train like there IS a tomorrow.

@marcusdickson94 40-55’ E in the AM

@CoachDistance Are they running their longer run in the morning then or cooling down a lot after the sprints?

Here's something that I am really liking with my HS crew: AM: Easy Run ------------------------------------------------------------ PM: Speed & Power Development 20' E + Sprint Drills Skips & Bounds Sprints: 2x80-60-40m, or something similar ...Threshold-based workout the next day ....Recovery Run on "Day 3"

@CoachDistance Do similar Monday Drills (include skips and bounds) 10 mins Easy Wickets Timed flys 8-10 x 20-30 meters Easy run 20-40 mins Tuesday - threshold day

Kudos to the Atlanta track club for the quick investigation and for paying out prize money. Love when people do the right thing.

@DrunkSixersFan 6 AM, done by 7 AM.

@CoachDistance How do you do the AM easy run? What time does school start for you?

Our agency had the second and third-place finishers at the USATF Half Marathon Championships yesterday, Carrie Ellwood and Annie Rodenfels, respectively. I am gutted for the athletes impacted by the on-course mishap and for the Atlanta Track Club team. I also understand the precarious position this places USATF, given their published selection criteria for the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen this September. The USATF selection procedures state that the top three finishers at the National Championships will earn automatic selection to the World Championships, with one additional at-large spot going to the top-ranked athlete in the World Athletics global rankings (full criteria below). Should any athlete on the podium decline, USATF will then fill those spots by order of finish, up to the fifth position. Earlier today, I had conversations with both Carrie and Annie. Both athletes prefer that the rightful team of Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley, and Ednah Kurgat be named to the team representing the Stars & Stripes, as it was a foregone conclusion that they had the team spots locked up, given their lead and proximity to the finish. I’ve had conversations with USATF today as well and understand by selecting those three they would be going against their selection criteria, as Jess (ninth), Emma (twelfth), and Ednah (thirteenth) finished outside the top-five designation. There is the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. The spirit of the selection criteria is to send the strongest possible team to the global championships, that spirit should win out here. Doing the right thing matters, and as a former athlete who has been on both sides of lead vehicle snafus—as the beneficiary (New Haven, 2000), and as the punished (Air Force Marathon 13.1, 2011)—I understand what the athletes are going through now. This is an opportunity for USATF to name Jess, Emma, and Ednah to Team USA. Should any of them decline, Carrie and Annie would happily step in, be ready roll, and do our country proud. 🇺🇸 I want to thank USATF for making this such a priority at this time. They're working hard on a solution, and I'm sure we’ll have one in short order. (Photo: Annie and Carrie in a gratuitous post-race doping control shot #CleanSport)

@CoachDistance Did something similar, switched Day 1 and Day 2 but same concept. Really liked the development and progression.