Settle down fellas wrote:
I am a throws coach, so like many other technical event coaches I spend around 5 hours per day at practice. It’s not ideal being that I am at a place with no operations person or recruiting coordinator. Our distance coach does a great job, but averages probably 1.5 hours a week at practice. To me the hard part of being a distance coach would recruiting. A good recruiting year a throws coach is signing 4-5 athletes. A distance coach trying to field 2 competitive XC teams probably (should) recruit double the amount of people most other event coaches do.
I like your post. When I stopped running with the guys on the easy days, I thought to myself, "What the hell am I supposed to do on an easy day at practice?"
Now in reality, it's not like that. I started having the mid-d guys workout on the day the xc guys were running easy. But yes, distance coaches don't need to see them workout individually. In fact, it's preferred that they workout together. That being said, if I had unlimited time, I"d probably have at least 3 different workout in track. 800, mile, long. And if I truly had unlimited time maybe six groups as you'd have begnning and advanced. That would take up time, but still not 4-5 hours a day.