Are you playing soccer in the fall? Field hockey?
Another sport?
If you live in Andover, North Andover, or anywhere else in the Merrimack Valley, the GTD Speed & Conditioning program on Monday evenings gives you the edge -- circuits, core, plyometrics, and endurance conditioning.
We encourage athletes to participate with their teammates to take advantage of guided drills that work on quickness, flexibility, balance, strength, and endurance.
Dates -- June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 21 (Monday evenings)
Time -- 6pm to 7:15pm
Location -- Andover High School track
More details Registration
Questions? Contact Dave
Are you playing soccer in the fall? Field hockey?
Another sport? Lacrosse, basketball football, baseball, ice hockey, softball, track, wrestling, volleyball, dance, skiing, cheering.
If you live anywhere in the North Shore, the GTD Speed & Conditioning program gives you the edge -- circuits, core, plyometrics, and endurance conditioning.
We encourage athletes to participate with their teammates to take advantage of guided drills that work on quickness, flexibility, balance, strength, and endurance.
Dates -- Monday,, Wednesday, Friday mornings, July 10 - August 13
Time -- 9am to 10:30am
Location -- Bishop Fenwick High School
More details Registration
Questions? Contact Dave
Merrimack Valley registration Merrimack Valley details New location for Merrimack xc program -- in Andover at the spacious back fields of the Greater Lawrence Technical School and beautiful trails along the Merrimack River.
Onsite sessions for both programs begin on Monday, July 10 and continue on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings until Friday, August 18.
The Comprehensive program ($195) includes two weeks of off-site prep conditioning, plus a written guideline for all 56 days of the program. The Onsite-only program ($170) includes the 18 onsite sessions.
Registration for the Spring Seasonal Coaching Program (program 1) with Fernando Braz is still available. The program began on April 17 and continues for 15 weeks to the end of July.
The program is designed for runners who have a specific racing goal, or a series of races to prepare for, or want to build or maintain their running fitness. Runners receive a written, 15-week outline that is targeted to their level and goal. The outline includes a weekly track session that may be done at a site convenient to the runner, or with Coach Braz on Tuesday evenings at the Beverly High School track.
Runners may register at any time for Coach Braz's one-on-one coaching program (program 2).
What's the difference between Seasonal Coaching (program 1) and One-on-One Coaching (program 2)?
Program 1 provides a training outline for the spring, fall, or winter season.
Program 2 provides one-on-one coaching from Coach Braz on a daily and weekly basis.
For more information, go to Program Options and FAQs.
An interval workout is simply a series of fast runs at a specified distance in a specified time with a specified rest. The variables are limited only by the imagination of the coach and the physical limitations quickly apparent in his athletes (it is one thing to write "10 quarters in 58 seconds with a 220 jog" and quite another to carry out these instructions).
While a two-mile overdistance run might be generally thought of as a pleasant diversion, very few of Cassidy's teamates thought of intervals as anything but a grueling ordeal, satisfying at best, horrifying at worst. It was precisely the kind of training, he knew, that tempered the body for racing.
Though the distance runner is constantly striving for aerobic efficiency, the race itself is primarily an anaerobic experience. Everyone, the winner in his painful glory as well as the loser many seconds behind in his equally painful anonymity, suffers the physical bankruptcy of total oxygen debt. And since interval training is usually sharp enough to bring the runner to grips with oxygen debt very quickly in the workout, he learns to deal with the debilitating fatigue from the first repetition on.
Other sports use an abbreviated form of interval training called "wind sprints," but where football and basketball players run 30 or 40 yards and take several minutes rest between each, the miler will run 220 yards, 440 yards, a half-mile, or even three quarters of a mile at a time. Each second of his minute or two-minute rest period is sweeter than life.
[Once a Runner, John Parker, Jr.]
Previous Issues of The Little Things
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Going the Distance is a coaching service for runners at all levels.
If you know someone who might benefit from the Going the Distance program,
tell them about us, and forward The Little Things to them.
Visit our website -- Going the Distance
Head Coach -- Fernando Braz
Assistant Coach -- Annie Starrett
Webmaster and Director -- Dave Smith
For more information, contact Dave at dave@goingthedistancefb.com
