High school jumpers can do much more than sit around watching TV, playing video games, or scrolling through YouTube in the off-season. Here are things …
Skinning The Cat
By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning Every year in November the IHSA hands out six individual and team cross country championships. …
The Island
By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning Being a distance runner has it positives and negatives. On the positive side, you enjoy …
Delayed Gratification
John Prieboy Plainfield Central High School Girls Cross Country jpriebo1@psd202.org Twitter- @PCHSGirlsXC The 2017 season has been a learning experience for me. Over the past …
The Echo Chamber of the Experts
As coaches, we must choose between “sophisticated complexity” and “mature simplicity”.
XC Meets: An experience like no other
If you’ve never been to an XC meet, you don’t know what you are missing. It’s an experience vastly different than any football or basketball …
Welcome to the family
By By Jason Retz St. Joseph-Ogden Cross Country & Track @SJORunning Every team does their “thing”, but most successful programs have one thing in common. …
Football: Differentiating Sprint Practice from Non-Sprint Practice
If you coached football with speed as a priority, why not adopt the training methods of a sprint coach? Racehorses or plow horses? Max-speed or …