The 1600m/3200m Double: A Science-Based Guide for High School Track Coaches
It’s the second week of May and you’ve got a decision that’s been keeping you up for several nights. Your…
Training Articles for High School XC and Track Coaches
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Caffeine and Distance Running: The Complete Guide to Performance and Safety
It was the third week of October, and one of my athletes showed up to our State Meet warm-up looking…
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Anaerobic Speed Reserve: Why Your 400m Time Predicts Your 1600m PR
A few seasons back, I had a kid come into my office in early March to tell me that he…
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How to Race the 3200m: Tactics for High School Runners
I’ve watched a lot of 3200s in 23 years of coaching. Sectionals, state meets, dual meets on cold, wet April…
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Sleep and Recovery for High School Distance Runners: The Complete Guide
Let me tell you about Marcus. Junior year. Cross country. Second man on the team. The kind of kid who…
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The Sprinter Who Became the World’s Most Complete Distance Runner: The Hellen Obiri Story
At age 14, Hellen Obiri was recruited as a sprinter. She ran the 200 meters and 400 meters. Coaches identified…
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Keely Hodgkinson Training: The Complete 800m Blueprint (2026)
Keely Hodgkinson Training: The Complete 800m Blueprint From Leigh Harriers to Paris Gold, a World Record on the Day She…
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Alicia Monson: The Training Behind the American 5K & 10K Records
What Alicia Monson’s Career Teaches Every Coach About Patient Development, Adversity, and Building an Aerobic Engine Amery, Wisconsin has a…
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How Two Lactate Values Became the Most Important Measurements in Distance Running
Sometime in the late 1990s, a Norwegian distance runner named Marius Bakken got obsessive about a number. Bakken was a…
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The Grant Fisher Training Blueprint: How the World’s Fastest Distance Runner Was Built on 45 Miles a Week
Introduction: The Shocking Reality of Low-Volume There is a number that stops most elite running coaches cold when they first…
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How to Safely Increase Mileage as a High School Runner
Every May, I get some version of the same text. It comes from a junior who just ran 16:40 at…
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10-Day Training Cycle for High School Cross Country
You did not design the 7-day training week. You inherited it. Every coach who uses a Monday-through-Sunday training template is…
