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by Jay Johnson

Mark Popp – Training Documents

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Filed Under: Season 3, Training Plans Tagged With: Cross Country, Mark Popp, Mark Popp Cross Country Training, Wayazata Cross Country, Wayazata NXN Cross Country

by Jay Johnson

A HSRC member’s take on Timo Mostert’s training philosophy

This guest post is by Doug Petrick, a member of HSRC, and the boys and girls track and cross country coach at Upper St. Clair High School, in Pennsylvania.

If you follow high school running, no doubt, you’ve heard of American Fork High School, coming straight out of Utah. This past spring, American Fork’s 4x1600m boys relay team smashed the National Federation of High School’s previous record by over 10 seconds! When you do the math with their record time of 16:41.30 for the event, it works out to 4 minutes and 10 seconds for each 1600m split leg!   

In fall 2015, American Fork finished second as a team at Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) and had the individual boy’s champion. This past fall, American Fork repeated as the second overall team at NXN and had three runners in the top 10 individually- along with the individual winner in the boy’s race. This is quite the model of successful high school distance running, and the coach orchestrating all this success is Timo Mostert.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: Coaches Tagged With: 4x1600m, American Fork, Cross Country, Doug Petrick, NXN, Timo Moster

by Jay Johnson

Dr. Jeff Messer Interview Excerpts

This interview/podcast contains the highlights of Dr. Messer’s full interview.  He discusses Aerobic Power and various ways he tries to constantly improve the aerobic metabolism.  He also discusses why he uses minutes and not miles to structure his training plans.

This is a great interview in itself.  If you would like to listen to the full interview, become a member for $8.09 a month by clicking here.

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Filed Under: Coaches, Interviews, Podcasts Tagged With: Cross Country, Dr. Jeff Messer, High School Running Coach, Minutes VS. Miles

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