Have any of you read that CCCS book by Joe Newton? What did you think of the workout schedules? There's way more intervals than anything I've ever seen, but he had great results.
Also, do you have other recommendations for high school XC books?
Have any of you read that CCCS book by Joe Newton? What did you think of the workout schedules? There's way more intervals than anything I've ever seen, but he had great results.
Also, do you have other recommendations for high school XC books?
Jack Hazen's training for Cross Country, Vigil' s Road to the Top, Daniels' Running Formula quickly come to mind.
I'm not sure I'd follow the training parts - it worked for Newton in his situation, but your situation is likely different. This is where the art of coaching comes in. Get kids to run a lot and do an appropriate amount of intensity every week. Through experience, you will find out " a lot of running" and "an appropriate amount of intensity" is in your context.
The brilliance of that book is what Newton did to make xc running a big deal at York High School. Focus on those lessons, not the training part. Note training is only one chapter in that multi chaptered book. That's a clue right there.
Frosty the Bro Man wrote:
I'm not sure I'd follow the training parts - it worked for Newton in his situation, but your situation is likely different. This is where the art of coaching comes in. Get kids to run a lot and do an appropriate amount of intensity every week. Through experience, you will find out " a lot of running" and "an appropriate amount of intensity" is in your context.
The brilliance of that book is what Newton did to make xc running a big deal at York High School. Focus on those lessons, not the training part. Note training is only one chapter in that multi chaptered book. That's a clue right there.
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The Joe Newton book was re-published and re-written by Pat Tyson.
Training Young Distance Runners is also good.
Joe started when no one knew anything.
You will find that common among many great coaches who are still coaching or retired recently. It seems like it would be harder to dominate now because the information is all over the web.
What you need to do is what is best for your kids. Everyone is an individual and special.
Carl Spackler wrote:
The Joe Newton book was re-published and re-written by Pat Tyson.
Same title (and publisher, I think?)--but, as you say, an entirely different book.
I'm from the Spokane area and have enormous respect for Pat Tyson, but I did not find his book to be nearly as helpful or informative as Joe's. If you're going to get a book with that title, make sure you get Newton's.
In fact, try to get Newton's "Long Green Line" book. (You can find it online.) That is the classic. As someone observed above, don't get it so much for the workouts (which Joe changed significantly from the book's first publishing to his last years at York), but for all the organizational and motivational material, which is priceless.
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