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  • High school track coach writing a time-based threshold workout on a whiteboard, organizing athletes into three color-coded ability groups (Group A, B, and C).
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    The Three-Ring Circus: How to Coach Multiple Training Groups Without Losing Your Mind (Or Your Athletes)

    The Three-Ring Circus: How to Coach Multiple Training Groups It’s 2:50 PM on a Tuesday. The bell has rung, the locker room doors are banging open, and sixty high schoolers are spilling onto the track. You have your Varsity squad looking to qualify for States, a solid JV group that needs development, and a dozen…

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    How to Structure the Perfect XC Practice

    How to Structure the Perfect XC Practice: A Daily Blueprint for High School Distance Programs The season was three weeks old when I realized we were wasting an hour every day. Athletes trickled in across a 20-minute window. Kids disappeared to the trainer one at a time, each taking 15 minutes. Warmup was chaotic—some kids…

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