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Youth & Teen Running Encyclopedia
by Mick grant & John Molvar
The best coaching guide for young runners!
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A coaching guide for youth and teen runners
BOOK INFORMATION
The Youth and Teen Running Encyclopedia is the first ever complete guide for middle and long distance runners ages 6 to 18, their coaches and parents.
It shows the proven formula of Mick Grant, who produced Hershey’s North American Final qualifiers 12 consecutive years, multiple Footlocker Finalists and National Champions several years in a row, including Hershey’s North American Final, USATF Junior Olympics, USATF Youth Athletics Nationals and National Scholastic Indoor Championships. All this from a group of ordinary local kids, near Mick’s home in Northeast Massachusetts.
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Introduction and Core Beliefs
I am grateful for the opportunity to coach young athletes. It is an honor to have worked with many of my kids for several years. I also have enjoyed working with Youth Runner Magazine…
Fun First
Fun First is an overriding principle throughout the book. In general, if it is not fun, don’t do it! Running should not be a punishment, it should be, and needs to be fun.
Our Philosophy
Part of coaching is allowing an athlete’s ability to reveal itself. As coaches we should have a plan, observe, and then adjust. There are two main coaching styles…
The Role of The Coach
Coaches should set the direction for the athletes to go and then adjust as the situation dictates. Do not blindly follow a rigid training plan if the athlete is not responding positively to the training..
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mick Grant &
John Mulvar
Mick Grant has been coaching youth athletes for over 30 years with astonishing success. Parents of many ordinary local kids have requested him to coach their children to become better runners. Mick rarely recruited athletes; they came to him and most had minimal or no background in the sport before starting with him. The results he has gotten are nothing short of remarkable including National Champions six consecutive years and having qualified athletes for the Olympic Trials, Hershey National Championships 12 years in a row. Several of his runners have gone on to become State and National high school champions including Russell Brown, who went on to run a 3:51 mile and Chantelle Dron, who ran a 4:22 1500 meter run at age 15.
John Molvar is a coach and private investor. As coach he has been involved in running and has studied the sport for 40 years. He has coached at the Youth, High School, College Division I, II & III and post collegiate levels. As a head college coach was named by his fellow conference coaches the Men’s Conference Coach Of The Year 4 times and also Women’s Coach of The Year. He is currently Assistant XC and Middle Distance and Distance Track Coach at UMass-Lowell, a position he has held the past 5 years. He is co-author of the 5 star rated Youth And Teen Running Encyclopedia. As investor he has been investing for more than 20 years and also previously worked as a nuclear engineer for 22 years before retiring at age 43. Investing in individual stocks he has beaten the stock market by a wide margin averaging 16.1% average annual returns versus 3.1% for the S&P 500 during the 15 year period from 1999 to 2013. He is the author of the 5 star rated Beginning Investing.
Reviews and Feedbacks
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
Jerry Palazzo – Head Coach
Equalizers Track Club – Southern California
While reading on a subject that I consider “my own”, my opinions danced in several directions, but at the conclusion, my impression was that this book is not only comprehensive, but serves as an invaluable resource for coaches, runners, and parents of runners; and one that I’ll use to make some modifications to future training regimens that I prescribe. Information on youth running is nearly non-existent, and sorely lacking; and the sport itself is questionable in many parents’ minds, unlike swimming and other comparable endurance sports. The “truth” lies within this publication, in how important it is for high school and college aged runners to begin as early in life as they do so many traditional sports. Development as a runner goes far beyond what talent can bring, and the process is lengthy in order to be healthy and lasting. I highly recommend this book as a mandatory starting point.
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The book lays out in detail how youth and teen athletes can achieve successively higher levels, year after year after year, following the proven success of Mick’s training program. What differentiates this program and this book from other programs and books is that it is a unique blend of building endurance and improving basic speed throughout the year, so that the athlete is much better next year than they are this year. The program uses a FUN FIRST approach, making sure the athletes enjoy what they are doing and stay healthy, to allow consistent training. It is the first such book to cover every topic imaginable for the youth and teen middle to long distance runner, jammed packed with almost 200 pages of vital information. This book is a must read for all youth runners age 6 to 18, and anyone helping youth runners starting on the way to a lifelong enjoyment of running, and a successful running career. While this book is geared to youth runners, it is a valuable resource to all middle and long distance runners and coaches, regardless of age or level, because the same basic principles apply to all middle and long distance events..
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