"Cross Country is a summer sport that is played out in the fall"--Coach Sage Canaday

Weekly Virtual Summer Learning:

Monday June 1, 2020:
"Summer of Uncertainty" Podcast
  • Welcome to episode 161 of the Final Surge Podcast. This week we do something different. We talk to 5 successful high school coaches from 5 different parts of the country about this summer of uncertainty. We get their advice on how they are dealing with the current environment and not knowing what the upcoming season will be like.
Monday June 8, 2020:
"Importance of Volume of Training" (link)
  • "In fact, total volume of training had the highest correlation with top performance at .75. This was followed by easy runs (with a correlation of .68), tempo runs (.58), and short intervals (.56). Long intervals had a very low correlation with performance (.22). And time trials and races had essentially no correlation..."
  • Thus, summer training should be 70% easy runs and building mileage to become aerobic monsters. 

Heritage Trail (meet at Parkside Creamery OR B-Y Park in Trafford)

"Yough Twister" or Sutersville trail head on Great Allegheny Passage 
-Directions to trail head on Youghogheny River