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by Jay Johnson

Greg Weich Q&A – Audio and Notes

Greg Weich has accomplished a great deal in his coaching career, coaching five different Footlocker Finalists, including Katelyn Kaltenbach, who won in 2003.

Greg now coaches at Broomfield High School and his teams are consistently in the hunt for state cross country titles.

What follows is Q&A with Greg recorded a few years ago at the Boulder Running Camps. You can listen to the audio, or, at minimum, read the notes below.

Thanks Greg for your time, not only during this interview, but also for being part of Season 1 of HSRC.

NOTE: The following audio will be in a future episode of the Run Faster Podcast, which also features many HSRC coaches.

https://highschoolrunningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GregWeich.mp3

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When Do You Individualize Programs for Athletes and How Do you Do It?

  • Greg gives an specific example of a CU runner demonstrating elite tendencies during his junior year in high school.
  • Greg discusses extending a foundation period of training to prep for a specific meet at a certain location.
  • Greg describes how the traits of motivation, personal goals,  and skill set for each athlete will dictate the specific customizing of workouts.

How Has Running with Athletes Helped Your Program?

  • He describes himself as an intuitive coach and how it is important to get athlete feedback as you run with them.
  • On a run with athletes you can use cues such as breathing, mental readiness, physical readiness as a coach to determine the execution of that day’s workout.
  • Running with athletes permits you to determine which athletes should work harder and which should ease up.
  • Athletes typically give the coach a little more respect or understanding if they know he/she can do the workout too.
  • Coaches running with athletes help build culture as motivation for the program

All of the Foot Locker Finalists Were Obviously Successful, What Were Their Strengths and Weaknesses and How did You Address Those?

  • It’s enjoyable to coach athletes that are students of the sport, most high achieving athletes are highly motivated and passionate about the sport.
  • Being highly motivated can be a gift and a curse during high school training for athletes (lack of rest).
  • Some common strengths of high achieving athletes are having a large aerobic engine and having a high capacity to train daily.
  • Some common weaknesses of high achieving athletes are not knowing when to back off, listen to your body, and rest.
  • Having an athletic background is an important and unique criteria for success in distance runners.
  • Transitioning from High School to College running can be a challenge for high achieving athletes that rarely lose in the High School setting.

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Filed Under: Free Training, Interviews, Podcasts, Q&A Tagged With: Adams State, Brent Vaughn, Broomfield, Footlocker Finalist, Footlocker Finals, Greg Weich, Greg Weich Interview, Joe Vigil, Katelyn Kaltenbach, Smokey Hill

by Jay Johnson

Greg Weich – Training Summary

Coach Greg Weich has built a successful program by stressing consistency in training and building a culture. He has done this  by getting the kids to run more as a group all year. He is also a big believer in the coach setting the tone by showing up every day and being excited about running. Unlike many of the other successful programs, Coach Weich’s athletes do not run 7 days a week, but they consistently run year round for 48 weeks a year. Greg thinks the biggest difference in his program, since he took over, has been building the running culture in the school.

Building a successful distance runner is not a short term project. Coach Weich learned from Adam’s State coach Joe Vigil early on that you need to take a long term approach to building a successful distance runner.

Some key points about Coach Weich and his program [Read more…]

Filed Under: Coaches, Free Training Tagged With: Broomfield, Greg Weich, Smokey Hill

by Jay Johnson

Greg Weich – Interview and Transcript

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Filed Under: Coaches, Interviews, Podcasts Tagged With: Brent Vaughn, Broomfield, Footlocker Finals, Greg Weich, Katelyn Kaltenbach, Smokey Hill, Summer Cross Country Training

by Jay Johnson

Greg Weich – Featured Coach, June of Season 1

We’re extremely excited to feature Greg Weich in our first month of Season 1 of High School Running Coach.

We will be sharing three months of Coach Weich’s training tomorrow and we will share a 90-minute podcast with Coach Weich on Wednesday.  Later in the month we will do an interactive Q&A with Coach Weich where you can ask him questions about his training.

Here is Coach Weich’s bio.  Five Footlocker finalists, one Footlocker Champion, and a 8:45 3,200m runner that isn’t part of the Footlocker list.  Wow!

Greg Weich has served as the head coach at both Smoky Hill High School and Broomfield High school in Colorado. At Smoky Hill, Weich amassed three state championships, five FootLocker finalists, including 2003 national champion Katelyn Kaltenbach, and the 2004 Nike Team Nationals runner-up girls team. Notably not among his five FootLocker finalists is Brent Vaughn, who ran 8:45 for 3200m. At Broomfield High School, Weich coached his boys team to the 2013 Colorado State Cross Country championship and the 3200m relay state championship.

Filed Under: Coaches Tagged With: Brent Vaughn, Greg Weich, Ketelyn Kaltenbach, Smokey Hill

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