If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.  — Renato Canova Renato Canova is one of the most brilliant minds in running and I’m not going to even pretend that I know what Renato Canova is talking about here, but the way that I’ve … More Learning From the Greats — Renato Canova

This is a pretty simple Summer 101, but I believe very important…FIND PEOPLE TO RUN WITH!!! I’ve seen some programs actually have city-wide practices and I know of runners from rival schools who will get together and train in the summer…YES!!! GET TOGETHER! The hardest months of the training year are the summer…find people to … More Summer 101 — Get together!

GTTC Elite team member Julia Pieper finished her LONG season last night in Germany with a 3000 meter season’s best time of 10:06. This performance just missed her personal best by 1-second, but was 6 seconds faster than she ran earlier in the year. It’s been a great year for Julia with several highlights, including … More Julia Pieper — 3000 meters — 10:06

4 miles of 1 min on / 1 min off Recovery: 1 min of easy running after each 1 min ‘on’ segment.  Splits: 5:55/mile average for 4 miles; ‘on’ segments were 5:20/mile down to 4:50/mile pace.  Ryan McSpadden, July 2018 Ryan runs for the Greater Texas Track Club Elite team and coaches the GTTC youth … More Workout of the Day — Ryan McSpadden

Every summer there are two books that I read…Running with the Buffaloes and John McDonnell’s biography. Both tell great stories from two of the all-time great coaches in our sport…Mark Wetmore and John McDonnell. I think for anyone looking to coach, you’ve got to read John’s biography…the way he built that Arkansas program on hard, … More Learning From the Greats — John McDonnell

I don’t typically like to assign higher importance to one run over another; honestly, it takes day after day after day after day…and so on and so on to be great at running…but if there were one run that had higher importance than the others, especially in the summer, that would be the long run. … More Summer 101 — The Long Run

At Rome in 1960 the world discovered that a New Zealand coach called Arthur Lydiard actually knew what he was talking about; two of his brightest pupils, Murray Halberg and Peter Snell, won gold medals on the Olympic track and a third, Barry Magee, ran the fastest marathon ever recorded by a white man. From … More Run to the Top — A Summary

4 miles tempo + 1 mile faster + 4 x 200 meters Recovery: 3 min rest between tempo stuff; 200 meter jog between 200 meter reps. Assigned Splits: 4-mile tempo — 5:36, 5:32, 528, 5:24, 1-mile faster — sub 5:20, 200m reps — cruising.  Matthew Hahn, November 2017 Matthew Hahn is an enigma…he’s a very … More Workout of the Day — Matthew Hahn

Nothing excites me more (as a coach) than getting those text messages from runners who say, “Coach, I ran a PR today!”, or “Coach, I got 1st place today!” And let me tell you, we had quite a few of those this week!!! One of the things that I am most proud of from our … More Big Results

Donnie Phillips is my dad and he is the Hull-Daisetta high school record holder for the the mile with his time of 4:40.8. He was the 1977 District Champion in the mile and once told me that you need to be sweating after your warm up to know that you are ready to race. I … More Learning From the Greats — Donnie Phillips