1. A Month By Month Progression for Foothill Technology Cross-Country
The Road to State
A Month By Month Progression for Foothill Technology Cross-Country

2. Website an Contact information
Builds on first presentation
Website
Address
Important text or call-just like the movies

3. How do we get on the pathway?
Do We Belong?
Can we get there?
Is there only limited access?
Why not us?
Where is the road map?
Reroute
When do we start?
Expectations with reality

4. Where does it all start? In the beginning How do you create the road?
Where do you want it to lead?
Do you want your team to do absolutely nothing?
It all starts with a plan
Detour or Road Closed

5. Are you willing to do the work?
The correct way or the right way?
Season training plan
Goals set
Individualize training
Keep records
Teach every practice
Develop the culture
Remove the barriers
Raise the funds

6. How we get there? Basic foundation is team set goals
Their goals, not your goals
Date pace, goal pace, dream pace
Once every four years or every year
Talent

7. Starting point for me On the drive home from State
Celebrate the season
Discuss the season with the athletes
Post season evaluation sent out when we get home
Reevaluate the training for the past season
Begin the plan for the next season

8. December Awards-Celebrate and publicize Postal-why Commit to track
Reup for the next year
Recruit from physical education
Winter break workouts s
Winter sport athletes
Time goals for the next year-magnet on my board

9. January Grouping by volume over break Scheduling for next year
Build a base
Create the next generation
Fill the holes
Focus on events
Not all distance
Pictures/gift cards

10. February My role/philosophy in track Continue base Switch focus
First meet
Award pins

11. March Lightly touch on goals for next CC season
Number of sub 6 minute/5 minute athletes
Every athlete will run 4, 8, 16, 32 sometime
Meet of Champions
Specialty events
Off events early on
Working for individual success
Everyone runs the 4 x 400
Finish of the 10,000 meters

12. April Team meets Travel meet (West Coast Relays)
Studs in relays at big meets (Arcadia, Mt Sac)
Invitations sent out to our invitationals
Cross Country Booklet
Facility use and transportation requests for CC
The Doors! “Come on baby”
Middle school brochure

13. Brochure Anacapa Balboa Cabrillo DATA Ventura Charter
Ventura Missionary

14. May Mentors Summer activity plan On campus student meeting
CIF Events for non seniors
Rest Period
Fundraiser

15. June Freshmen letters Welcome calls and signs Parent meeting-Club
Physicals
Mentors meet
Freshmen Academy
Athlete and Parent
Friends recruit
Weights-functional strength
Dead Period

16. Part of what is explained at Parent Meeting
Club rule
Other sports
Vacation
Log
Communication chain
Fall break expectations
How to make the team
College connection Expectations when we get to school

17. July Start July 17th Days a week Locations Purpose
Invitation only workouts
Swimming
Fundraising
Teach, teach, teach
When in town

18. August Increase practice days Big Bear Elite Camp
Introduce basics of program
Last week of summer
Start of school
Parents’ meeting two
Daily athlete s
Weekly parent s
Final tryout
Making the team-standards
First day comments by seniors to frosh
Reestablish mentors

19. When we get to school Practice expectations
Check out procedure
Meet expectations Who runs in what meet
Race plans
Coaches’ role at meets
Team role at meets
Dragons take care of Dragons
Behavior at meets

20. Basic concepts Start line, finish line Pick up procedure
Vocabulary/safe zone
Race pace daily
Cell phone rule
Class time (includes stretching and core)
What you do when noone is watching
Learn to train on your own
Pace day warm up/race day warm up
Long run bathroom rule

21. Tentative Weekly Plan Monday and Tuesday: Hills and Pace (flipflop)
Wednesday: Recovery
Thursday: Tempo most weeks
Friday: Recovery or Pre meet
Saturday: Long run or meet (early season, late) Sunday: Optional—run or cross train or off

22. September First meet Short races Early meets one division
Developing the team
Qualifying standards
Six Pack
Rotating Varsity
Rest days
Swimming
Purpose for every meet

23. October Team evaluation Travel Meet Championship race
League meet-6 and 7
Travel meet for non varsity
Adventure runs
Team activities
Ventura Marathon
Is this meet important?
My role at meets

24. October is reevaluation time
Are goals correct?
Is training correct?
Stay the course?
Believe in the system?
Train to race
Communication
Team evaluation

25. Always going to be twists and turns
Injuries
Conflicts
Trust the process
Train them all
Always a surprise
How big is varsity?
Senior talk
Pure capitalism

26. November League finals Who goes on (numbers) Benchmark workouts
Different locations
Recovery workouts
Magic
Fun
Prelims-who runs, what the purpose?
When do I let them know?
Car and room assignments
Finals-what is the purpose?

27. State Meet State routine Pre meet Once in a lifetime
Enjoy the experience
Hotel
Dinner (league)
Santa
Christmas lights
Meet Day routine
Celebrate
Evaluate
Start again