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Organization and Inspiration in Cross Country

Organization and Inspiration in Cross Country. Tips and Tales on Getting Your Program to the Next Level.

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Organization and Inspiration in Cross Country

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  1. Organizationand Inspiration in Cross Country Tips and Tales on Getting Your Program to the Next Level

  2. I. Organization: A few concrete, practical and specific tools that you can take home and try with your kids. (handouts and samples available on the web at:www2.sluh.org/sluhxc/2007season.html) II. Inspiration:A few stories and ideas to create enthusiasm on your team, recharge your batteries and help you remember the most important part of coaching. Introduction Can a Clinic Presentation Really Make a Difference in Your Program?(Yes, but a few disclaimers first!)

  3. I. Organization

  4. Workouts and Training Plans • Paul Enke’s presentation tomorrow • Handout: A loose recipe approach: • Key ingredients • Draft the season • Get feeback • Adapt as you go

  5. Daily Practice • Automatic Starts • Team Bulletin Board • Announcements for day/week • Attendance • Excuse notes/mailbox • Athlete reports (samples in a moment) • Today’s workout w/ specific instructions • Captains take over • Formal Finishes • Finish with structure, habit, accountability • Strides, cal, jog, stretch with leaders to the end • Ice, food, shower

  6. Work Groups • Handout: Workout data sheet samples • Groups by volume (off season miles, age) • Groups by pace (tied to race goal pace) • Finally, groups by rank • Makes individually targeted workouts possible • Kids must know their groups and what it means • Complex practices can be managed and reviewed

  7. Injury and Recovery • Of course, PREVENTION must come first! • Shoes. grass loops, proper work group, warm-up, cool down, preventative icing, “life is not fair” speeches • Accurate diagnosis • Kids and parents must take initiative! • Recovering Runner Reports (handout sample) • Filled out every day before practice • On my way out, I grab them from mailbox and review • Keep on file • Most important function of form: teaching the athlete to take a positive, active role in his/her health • Cross Training Reports (handout sample) • Initial consult w/ coach • Athlete and parents run program when we can’t

  8. Individual Training Plans • Quick review of handout

  9. Drills and Routines • Workouts and miles come first but… • Steady, habitual drill can make a big impact on young runners • Review: Drill and Routines handout

  10. Running Form • A few disclaimers: • Not magic; we’ll take talent and heart over form anytime! • Many good coaches and great runners will tell you it is a waste of time… and they have a point! But… • You can improve a kid’s form if you support it and structure it • Good form can make kids faster and help prevent injury • And, there are some HUGE “hidden” benefits to focusing on form. The mental “spiral”effect • Two tools you might want to adapt (handouts)

  11. Websites and Web Resources • The tremendous potential (and tremendous demands) of a team web site • One site that may help you to encourage off-season training, communication, team building and making runners students and fans of the sport

  12. The Study Group • Brief review of a handout you may want to adapt for your young people • Can be a great “conversation starter” for troubled kids

  13. Winter and Summer Training • In terms of training, this is the single most that helped our program get to the next level. • THEY have to do it, but we can provide the structure • Quick review of some of the material we use

  14. II. Inspiration

  15. A Team Philosophy • Put your heart on your sleeve right there next to the rules • Spend time trying to capture it, post it everywhere • Even if they still don’t read it, your attention to it will come through and they will get it • A few excerpts from SLUH document • A compliment to a Hall of Fame Coach

  16. “3 to 1” Discipline • A very simple concept… • ….very powerful results with young people, • …but sometimes very tough to do when you most need to do it!

  17. Telling Stories • The season is a story…tell it! • The program is a story (history, tradition), tell it! • Every athlete’s journey is a story. Let him know you are following it. You may have to tell him the story! • Behind every drill, face, course, workout, you’ll find you’ve got stories. TELL THEM! Stories WORK like nothing else. • Two State stories we tell, one good, one not so good, both instructive.

  18. The Power of “Stuff”

  19. Fanfares for the Common Man or Woman

  20. Everyone a Champion • Get EVERYBODY on board with some version of EVERYTHING you’ve got to offer

  21. When Things Fall Apart • Seven-week entropy • “Summer in the fall” practice days • Only when you really have to, make “the speech.” • Constantly reinforce the importance of “the details,” even the tiny ones. • Actively go after the “behind the scenes”conflicts and get groups and individuals to reconcile

  22. Lessons I Learned the Hard Way • The importance of recovery! • Acne medications • Low iron • Giving blood • Getting kids too keyed-up for big races • To much worrying about “peaking”

  23. “Another Day At the Office”

  24. Our REAL Work as Coaches • A DEDICATION….

  25. A Dedication • Automatic Starts • Formal Finishes

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