LetsRun.com's High School and College Summer Training Program is Here! & John Kellogg is Back

Looks good but hey you guys need to see a barber..LOL sorry had to have a dig. You guys look straight out of the 1970's

Now the only question I would pose to you is how many high schoolers have you coached recently?

JK did about 30 years ago....

I think back in my early high school days well...I couldn't have afforded it but even in the mid 80's athletes were going out and finding personal coaches. That didn't go well when the newspapers did an article on it.

Good luck but make sure high schoolers have checked with their coaches before paying you guys for a summer program.

Cheers

from the American coach who guided a 34 min 10k runner to top 50 at Women's WXC in Aarhus

wejo wrote:

RunCzar wrote:

What about us adult runners? I would totally be interested in a program for us runners in our 30s that still love running and racing. Maybe for road 5ks or club XC events 8k-10k ?

I've always wondered what JK training plan would be like, from what I've read on this website over the years he seems like a running genius.

I thought about this after the logo hyping the program went live. I realized it doesn’t say high school or college. And then I thought ‘there are probably a lot of adults who might want a running base endurance phase program over the summer’ especially during covid when they may not know what event to focus on in fall.’

We’ll talk it over.

Could the program also apply to masters runners (over age 40) who have been running since high school? I remember reading John Kelogg where he wrote that masters runners have to train differently...

For monitoring of progress maybe you could schedule some sort of time trial (track or measured course if tracks are closed) or indicator workout at the start, middle, and end of the program ...

More than happy to sponsor a young high schooler realise his dreams of training with you guys. I have a few Trump dollar's laying around. Happy to give back to the sport that has provided me with so much.

Just look up Summer of Malmo kids. It's free and all you need.

Way to promote the sport Brojos. :eyeroll:

Honestly, $150 is a bargain for coaching and a training plan. That type of insight, from an actual quality coach (not just the local road race hero who starts a "coaching company") - especially one with years of experience at all levels of the sport, doesn't come cheap.

$145 is roughly equivalent to two days of summer camp that millions of American kids attend. So it's a steal if it works, IMO. If I were trying to build the business, I might offer a discount (or a free summer) to the first 10 kids who agree to have you share their progress here. That would generate a lot of traffic to the site, I suspect, and also be great advertising if your training produces good results.

I coach my kids over the summer, and I can tell you for sure that they are not ready to self-guide using online resources. They just don't have the level of interest in studying the physiology and coaching theory that one needs to make good decisions about what to run, when, where, how fast, with how much recovery . . . etc. So it's not just idiots who could use input like this from a coach.

Because we are stuck in a horrible coaching situation, I've been coaching my kids through the past two years. Overtly over summer/winter miles and subvertly during XC and Track. But, I quickly realized that as my kids progressed I may be in over my head with my old school running history and lack of time to do a deep dive into current physiological approaches.

So I signed up my sophomore. The workouts given and the responses to my questions have been in depth and timely. I like the overarching philosophy behind the training plan and they're not saying anything that I haven't already told my kids so it helps to show them that I've got some credibility. It also helps that the workouts are coming from someone else.

I'd have no problem with sharing the progress my son makes over the next year as long as it could be anonymous.

So two thumbs up from me.

What if I am a recent college grad looking to get competitive on the local scene (for example I want to drop my 1:14HM to sub 1:12HM)?

You are welcome to try my "Summer of JS". I think I can give you a very good training schedule over the summer to half the fee the brojos charge.

Rojo + Wejo:

1 piece of constructive criticism here: Please take some video media training classes. How to present material, how to stand, how to interact with one another, how to engage the audience, etc. Maybe include some video editing with bullet points ("Everyday has its meaning" for example), a sample graphic of what the buyer would receive in the inbox or sign-up, etc.

You're really close to having a successful online coaching tool.

I'd love to get progress reports on the high school kids who go through your program.

It's the kind of story any current or former high school athlete can relate to.

There's a strategy in the anti climate change movement to just barrage climate scientists with trolling comments to harass, derail, and annoy the research scientists. The same dumb technique is happening here. Don't fall for it, Wejo! While I appreciate your well considered and reasoned responses, the posters aren't engaged in genuine debate and don't genuinely care about your responses. This thread is not for them. There are plenty of others who can see the offer to get coaching and understand why it's valuable.

If direct contact, feedback, and support is what a runner wants, then why wouldn't someone sign up for your summer coaching program? There's more value to a coach than just a prescribed daily mileage/pace. I'm a student of the sport, but I also have a coach because this takes so much of the mental drain away from the daily grind.

I guess the haircut joke was enough to get me blocked from posting. Oh well see you in Bathurst NSW

Yikes when fall sports are cancelled at the college and HS level will the kids need a summer training program? Anyway I've seen non school posters ask if they can get the coaching too, have Wojo or Rojo addressed that? I'm an average runner that wants to improve but needs someone to just tell me what to run. I'm too busy to read books and blogs and figure out how I'm going to improve my Turkey Trot time this year.