XC camps in New England (North of NYC to Maine okay)

Northeast Kingdom Running Camp (NKRC). It’s in northern Vermont. For training, they group kids based on ability (pr’s and milage). You get your pick of state champions and basically a who’s who’s of New England running in the top group or two. Aside from that, there’s another 20 groups of kids ranging in ability. Like group 7 or 8 was probably 4:50s mile range , group 20 was probably 8:30 mile pr’s. Tons of evening activities, good food, dorms are fine had no complaints. Always spikeball being played in the quad.

In the morning you can either do like a 3 mile slow run, pool workout, or yoga, then the afternoon we take busses to places within like 20 minutes and run there. Normally dirt roads. I did runs every morning except for one and hit like 50 miles on the week.

Seconding NKRC. Balance of fun , education, and serious training.

It's good you are asking. We run one with our team where the head coaches come with their teams.

I have heard some nightmare stories with some of the camps. Time trials, split into groups and then beat you up for the week, and big price tags with coaches that have no idea what your background is.

Sounds like the one in Vermont sounds like it might be a good option. indoorszn --- Can you tell us more about how the training was individualized there?

Really appreciate the idea. Will look into it for sure and had not seen in via Google search.

Acadian Running Camp is really fun up in Maine. It's in Bar Harbor so you get the carriage trails and there are always really strong training groups. Probably my favorite training setting I've ever been in.

TDogger wrote:

Any views on HS running camps in the North East for a solid but not a star rising senior boy. Green Mountain, Nike Rock Hill, AIM HIgh RC? Any views welcomed. Others?

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If you want the best experience of you life...hands down NKRC.

Excellent area to train, awesome set up in terms of living in dorms and not shotty cabins, as well a terrific line up of guest speakers and running education.

https://nkrc.camp/

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otter wrote:

It's good you are asking. We run one with our team where the head coaches come with their teams.

I have heard some nightmare stories with some of the camps. Time trials, split into groups and then beat you up for the week, and big price tags with coaches that have no idea what your background is.

Sounds like the one in Vermont sounds like it might be a good option. indoorszn --- Can you tell us more about how the training was individualized there?

Sure. So aside from breaking you into groups off of ability for runs, you basically pick your milage. Don’t want to do the whole 8 mile run? Turn around early. Also, you can move up or down groups if the intensity or pace isn’t fitting you.

There’s daily “breakout sessions” where you can choose stuff to do, from core, to watching race videos in the lecture hall.

All the training is easy milage. No workouts. Lot of dirt roads and hills.

Thank you. Sorry, but dates don't work.

Northeast Kingdom is the best one by a mile. The location is perfect for training

Gold Medal Running Camp is pretty great at Dartmouth. Not sure if they are going to run it this summer though.

The running school, you can look it up on the internet. It is located in New York north of NYC.

I second this, I've never been but I know lots of people who have, and I'll be going this year.

TDogger wrote:

Thank you. Sorry, but dates don't work.

I’ve always heard good things from friends that went to Green Mountain Running Camp (ironically in the white mountains). Not sure about the dates but it’s a Nike camp

I'll second Foss Running Camp! The running is awesome - dirt roads and trails that are right out your door, and that you do NOT have get on a bus to reach - which I think is true of Northeast Kingdom? Not sure about that. Someone else mentioned dorms instead of cabins. Cabins are one of the reasons to GO to Foss! You really get to know 10-12 cabinmates by living with them for a week, and the inside jokes last the whole year. Plus, everything is right there - lake for swimming/cooling down, beach volleyball, gagaball, stuff like that to do when you're not running. Just time to hang out and meet other runners and learn a lot about what other teams do for training. Tons of serious athletes there as well - Burnt Hills from NY, Lexington from MA, etc. Foss is awesome.

Also - to someone else's point - there are no assigned "training groups" or "workouts" at Foss. You can literally do your own thing, at any one of the 3 running times each day that suits you (morning, afternoon or evening). Find a kid on another team who's just as good for you and head out for a workout. And the big culminating event of the week is the long run, for which you determine your own goal and they put out music and water stops. At a lot of camps culminate in a "race," which only makes the whole thing feel adversarial. Long run day at Foss is great because everyone ends the week congratulating each other on accomplishing their long run goals, no matter what that was.

TDogger wrote:

Any views on HS running camps in the North East for a solid but not a star rising senior boy. Green Mountain, Nike Rock Hill, AIM HIgh RC? Any views welcomed. Others?

Buyer beware. A lot of these “camps” have little knowledge of periodization and shove everything they possibly can into the micro cycle. Kids come out glowing about what they “accomplished” but don’t realize they need a week just to recover. That’s not the point of developmental running.