Dr. Jason Saltmarsh

Nutrition

7-Day Meal Plan for Runners (With Grocery List)

June 29, 2026

7-Day Meal Plan for Runners (With Grocery List & Recipes) A few seasons ago I had a junior who could…

Nutrition

June 29, 2026

How Many Calories Does a Runner Actually Need? A Coach’s Guide to Fueling I have coached high school distance runners…

July 30, 2026

Running in the Heat: How Much to Slow Down, and When to Stop Why dew point matters more than temperature,…

Training

June 24, 2026

Isabella asked me this a few days ago, standing at the end of a grass field after an easy three…

June 15, 2026

Jack texted me before he’d even arrived home that night. He’d just gotten off the bus from the New England…

June 12, 2026

The first time I ran a cross country preseason meeting, I read from a clipboard for forty minutes. I covered…

Training

May 28, 2026

I’ve been coaching high school cross country and track for over two decades. Many of them are still running. Some…

Training

October 6, 2026

There are 22 events on a high school track meet program. Most of them are individual. Two of them, one…

October 20, 2026

She found me in the parking lot before the second week of August practice, fourteen years old and already crying….

Racing

June 2, 2026

It’s the second week of May and you’ve got a decision that’s been keeping you up for several nights. Your…

Nutrition | Training

May 14, 2026

It was the third week of October, and one of my athletes showed up to our State Meet warm-up looking…

October 13, 2026

A few seasons back, I had a kid come into my office in early March to tell me that he…