1. Physicals/Waivers—must have them!!!
2. Goals—Individual—set them, may be just to
improve time, place at sectional…
3. Fun/work---get out of this what you put into
it.
4. Athletic Code/School rules—follow them! Language, behavior at
practice, etc.
5. Grades—must be passing 5 classes—3x week ineligible off the team.
6. Practice:
Must be at—if not let me know, too many you will be done.
Plan on practice
everyday---we will try not to cancel. If
we do, we may just lift and do a light workout somewhere if possible, but there
is a chance that it may be called of. If
it is, especially due to weather—you can not stay! I do not want you out in storms, etc—even if
you are on your “own” you are still the school’s responsibility.
There may be some days where
practice is canceled ahead of time or I may not be able to be here due to
meetings. I will let you know ahead of
time if this is the case. Some days I
may get someone out here to cover for me until I get back or it just may be
canceled. This is why it is important to
be at practice to hear announcements about this and other things.
Understand that some will
have work, FFA, etc. Let me know!!! Do not just not show
up! Excused or unexcused is up to me,
but I will follow the normal concept—sick, death, injured, doctor, other school
activity, work if prearranged or other reasons.
Unexcused—you don’t tell me,
unexcused from school, doing school work—explain this one—at home—big project,
etc,
Too many unexcused you will
be dismissed.
7. Workouts assigned by me, must do them, if you
can do more, that is good, but must do that on your
own.
Typical:
Warm up on your own, stretch,
run, speed drills. Why on your own?
Announcements, must be here
for them, do not want to come out and someone tell me that so and so already
started…
3:45 Workouts—designed for everyone, can not make
everyone run the same # of miles a day, if you can more, great, but will have
to do the extra on your own. These
workouts will be 30-40 minutes long.
Monday---distance—Tempo, long
runs…usually 3-5+ miles
Tuesday---Speed---400’s,
intervals, hills or meets
Wednesday---Fartleks---easy
run (usually after a meet or before)
Thursday---Longer speed work
(800-1200-1600)
Friday----
Weekends—Saturday meets or on
your own.
Need to get 1-2 days rest
each week!!!!!
Always posted outside my
office on board
Most days you will be done with
the workout by 4:30, do a cool down of at least 10
minutes light jogging. You do not have
to come back and check in. So plan on most days being done by
Understand that I will on the
course working most days or I may get called away for AD stuff or even have to
leave to go to games, meetings…
8. Meets:
Schedule in packet, online, outside my office—no excuse to say “I didn’t
know” Everyone
goes to meets and runs unless hurt or excused by me. If you are unexcused from 3 meets you will be
dismissed from the team. This includes
not just going and/or going to the meet and deciding that you don’t want to
run. If you are hurt/sick—let me know
before you get on the bus.
Bus times on the schedule,
get out of class 10 minutes before, no announcement, must ride to and back
unless parent calls ahead to office or see me at meet. Most meets we will stop somewhere to eat or
get drinks—plan on bringing money for this.
At meets, warm-up on your
own/team and be ready, lots of times I will have to help in some way.
9. Basic concepts
---you must be here to get
better
---you get out of this what
you put into it
---it should be fun, but work
---I make the final decisions
on who runs, what we run…
Questions?