I coach at a small school in Illinois. My sprints and hurdlers are getting work done in the hallways, but my mid and distance are running out of workout options.
Normally, we'd shovel out a lane on the track or run on a nearby bike path. But, the track is under 1-2 feet of ice and drift snow, and the bath paths are all ice.
How are other HS programs without indoor tracks coping?
Fo' sho' do. It's 86* here!
coachquestion wrote:
I coach at a small school in Illinois. My sprints and hurdlers are getting work done in the hallways, but my mid and distance are running out of workout options.
Normally, we'd shovel out a lane on the track or run on a nearby bike path. But, the track is under 1-2 feet of ice and drift snow, and the bath paths are all ice.
How are other HS programs without indoor tracks coping?
For winter conditioning we actually did laps inside the school. Our HS was, thankfully, VERY big and each lap that we traced through the hallways was 350m,I think.
winter blows. Expect the top athletes at non and other big spring meets to come from droughtifornia and Florida this year.
Suck it
yes, we also did laps in the school for our conditioning phase. tap the wall, turn around and keep going. those were the days
Clearing the track would be a good upper body/strength workout for a day.
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Ryan Foreman wrote:
I know this is probably a serious question in want of serious answers. But the montage scene from Rocky IV could provide some inspiration.
Absolutely! In bad northern Minnesota winters, which is every winter, I would do "intervals" through shin deep snow at a park. Just go by time (1 minute on, or 3 minutes on etc.) and effort to simulate the work you would want to be doing on a track.
We have a fair amount of parking lot space that gets plowed. Back and forth, it's cold, but... it'll have to do. When there's less snow often the track is covered but some quiet nearby neighborhoods will be open. We'll run there as a group and run/do hard work in there.
The winter of my 10th grade year was in Great Falls, Montana, where it routinely reached 40 below zero.
The track was buried under snow, and no outline was visible. The whole area looked like just a snow covered field. I found the curb, stepped along the edge, then stepped around my steps until I was able to run. The first part to melt was the part where I ran.
Other than that, I ran on the sidewalks and streets, being careful to not slip on the ice. Sometimes I ran the clear or snowy parts and walked the parts with the ice.
You can't get them to a gym with treadmills? You can do decent aerobic interval sessions on a treadmill.
Swimming and cycling are also good substitutes short term.