ex400-No, she is not a daughter; "She" is really a composite of 3 very similar girls who are 9th or 10th graders this year who are looking to "move up." However, their training ages and performances are very similar. I coached them during junior high, and they are now freshman or sophomores in hs. During the winter, they worked out alot together, mostly easy running on frozen Minnesota winter streets, and occ harder running on Sundays when the junior high gym is open. They are by no means the elite in the teams but they want to get better. Unfortunately there is no USATF or AAU club in the area, no indoor track nearby, and coaches(usually school teachers) are usually only involved during the sport season and not the off-season.
The intervals would be done on treadmills, and the anearobic endurance work would be done on Saturdays at a college indoor track about an hour away.
I am a parent of a younger (12 yrs) girl and two older boys(16 and 18 yrs) also in involved in T&F, but they are short sprint and jump competitors. I am trying to devise a program to offer them, so I have been reading up about a difficult subject and event–the 400/800 runner. So you can see–I really want to have a reasonable and effective plan to at least start out with. I believe one principle to remind myself is that all plans are subject to change depending how a novice athlete responds to a new training stimulus. Thanks.
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