How do I get a distance job?

If you are female you will be hired for a college job immediately.

College coaching is an old boys network. It has nothing to do with knowledge, skill, or accomplishment. The overwhelming majority of college coaches get their feet in the door by having backgrounds as elite or at least competitive collegiate athletes. The running community is stupid, and most think knowledge is proportionate to athletic accomplishment. In reality the two are completely independent of each other, running ability mainly being a function of genetics and coaching “success” being a function of recruiting success. If you were never a great runner you’ll have no choice but to kiss @ss for people who were for years as a volunteer assistant and work your way up by continuing to kiss the @sses of morons who don’t know anything about running or physical training in general, and only appear successful because they coach talented athletes. It’s not something I would ever do. For anything .

You have the best shot to get hired onto the coaching staff at the school you attend. Your chances are good if you if you're in the top third of this list (With one of these items on your resume you could get hired at a different school too), and your chances are modest if you're in the middle of the list. In all sincerity if you have great success at a lower level and work hard, number 9 is always possible even if it's not probable.

1. Set an NCAA record

2. Win an NCAA title

3. Be an All-American

4. Set a school record

5. Win conference championship(s)

6. Get a scholarship to run

7. Walk on

8. Lick the coaches grundle

9. Get lucky

Shave your legs and then he was a she, take a walk on the wild side.

Skip the college ranks and go straight to the pros.

NOP has one less coach now. Apply there perhaps.

That bad huh?

Try to volunteer or work as a student manager for the college team. See if you like it. Most coaches don't really care what you did as a high school coach. I had two state champions and one team title and it didn't really help me one way or another. I was willing to throw all of that away and start working as a volunteer.

The next important thing is just networking like crazy, doing good work for your bosses at the college so that they want to recommended you for positions in the future.

All I gotta say is he prepared to move a lot. You basically need to climb the coaching ladder until your early 30s to land a stable head coaching job. Until then, it’s assistant positions at small colleges, then maybe XC head at another...

Problem is it is hard to become a head track coach without knowledge of other events. So get your knowledge base on the sprints and hurdles at least, but as many other events as you can is ideal.