When it comes to qualifying for NXN, Southlake Carrol ranks as the school with the second most combined team appearances, only behind FM. We talk to him about his success
Background
School
Reed Brown discussion - sub-4:00 senior year
Discussion on how he works with the assistant coach to make sure kids are always progression no matter where they are.
Team building events
How is it determined who runs the final top 7 for the State meet
Training
How he handles the transition from State to Nike qualifying and Nationals
Dan Iverson - Naperville North girls head coach. The girl's team won the 2018 Nike Midwest Championship and were runners-up from the 2017 NXN.
Background
Run for fun and personal bests
Summer Training
Season
Resources
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Stephanie Bruce
Training
Coaching Girls
What does season look like?
Week
Dave Frank Central Catholic Introduction
You had a lot of success as a runner, why did you end up coaching high school?
How did your training differ between California and Oregon?
What was the team like when you arrived at Central Catholic and how has that changed, and what impact did Galen being there have on it?
You had a unique situation getting to work with Alberto Salazar, what were those years like and how was he with the kids?
When the report came out on Oregon Project how did that impact the team?
You have had a lot of success since 2003 being first or second at State every year but one
What did you do to get that buy-in in the early years?
What is your summer program?
What does early season training look like?
Workout examples
As we get to end, the last week, what does the last session look like?
You have built a program from nothing and consistent year after year, so what advice do you have for a young coach who may be taking over a program looking to build something out of it?
What is that team philosophy?
Introduction to Sal Gonzalez Rio Ranch High in New Mexico
School demographics
What was your previous school like?
When you took over the school split and things changed, did you try to keep the traditions of Rio Ranch like they were before you got there or did things change?
You talked about the injury rate is different at Rio Ranch, can you talk more about that and what you have had to do?
How much time do you spend on strength and how long is your practice?
What is the thinking of doing speed ladder and strides and hurdles before the run?
What kids will you work with for dual athlete kids in the same season?
What does the summer look like?
What is max mileage?
How about boys vs Girls
You talked about touching on energy systems, how does the structure change going into September and the season?
On long runs how do you structure the 'spice' and monitor
How often do you race
When you do race what does your week look like
Do your three-week cycles build upon each other so the last cycle is the biggest one?
Is State always the focus and how do you get ready for it the last two weeks?
Introduction to Coach Timo Mostert
School demographics
When did you decide you wanted to coach?
What do you want to talk about in this podcast, what is important to building a program?
How do we develop a good aerobic engine?
You have a first-year kid where do you start at and develop the newbie
Do you give them specific paces or do you run by feel for beginners?
What 2 track workouts do you during the summer?
You focus on taking out some of those faster 400 workouts and doing more aerobic. Your goal is to increase the long run
What else are the veterans doing for a harder workout?
For your veterans are you getting more than the one run over an hour?
Do you assign paces on easy and recovery days?
Doubles?
How much do you talk about things outside of running like sleep and nutrition?
On a race day, what does your race day prep look like?
Good mix of old school and new school. What do you do about form?
A week in mid-September
What is your hardest session and when does it fall?
You are doing what most coaches are doing, but you have all this success, what do you think you are doing differently?
To get the job done at a national level there has to be a race strategy, how do you deal with that?
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Colin Altevogt, the boys XC coach at Carmel High in Indiana. Colin has been coaching in Indiana for the past 11 years, the last six years as a cross country coach at Carmel. The team has captured four state championships and two state runner-up titles with two qualifications for Nike Cross Nationals (2014 and 2017), including a tenth-place finish in 2017.
Background
Why did you get into high school coaching
Speak to cross country and the traditions in the mid-west
Summer Program
What is PPM
Example 15:30 5k guy runs 5:00/mi what is this PPM workout for him?
Workout structure
Thresholds are an important part of your program, once in the season can you give us a weekly schedule?
Do you get requests for more variety?
Racing during season
Carmel team Culture
Coach closes talking about the outlook of State and NXN
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