CBA training in depth, pressure of taking over a solid program.
Let’s start out with getting to know you a little bit. You were a successful runner at Princeton, can you tell us about your high school years and what you learned from those years that you are using now?
Coach Tom Heath was the long-time legendary coach who won 26 state titles, an NXN title and 343 dual meets in a row. He has announced his retirement and the program is now under your helm. You had a successful coaching career yourself before joining CBA a couple of years ago, so what is going to be the biggest challenge in carrying on this tradition?
What will you change and keep from tradition
Dual meets are interesting because while they are going away, it is a great way to learn how to race for younger kids without as much experience.
Run the same 1.5 mile loop every day for your distance runs?
A lot of the preseason writeup have you as one of the favorites in the NE this year. How did you train this summer to get ready for those expectations? - Great conversation about his training philosophy.
Your daily runs have a fairly good amount of quality to them, and if you are asking your kids to run that hard on the daily runs are your ‘workout’ days less intense or what does that look like for a program that goes pretty hard every day?
Can you walk us through this time of year when you may have a weekly meet what your week looks like?
Have you found that this type of training is better preparing them for college running?
You guys seem to be fit all year round with your training. Does it make it easier to always be ready for a big meet like a national meet and postseason over those who vary their training more?
How big of a school and how big of a xc team do you have? - Their freshman story and when they start is really interesting.
You have over 10% turnout, what unique are you doing that may help build the team?
Do you still do your big 2-mile time trial and how does that work?
If that went so well, what are the goals for this year?
To be successful year around you need to stay healthy, so what are you doing for core, strength work?