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We don't have one either, but our kids will go to the local rec center. The Jerome distance boys go there frequently as well.

You can do some good work if they can get to a pool once or twice a week. One of my favorite workouts for sprinters with bad shin splints is doing simulated sprinting in the deep end. They go hard as hard as they can, with good running form, for 8-12 seconds, then get a long rest holding on to...

The weight room and the warm up is essential. So it sounds like you are on the right track. If you can get them into (the deep end of) a pool, you can do some variations on the pool running distance runners do. If that's an option let me know and I can give you some workouts. On the bike...

I have used used Milesplit, Baumspage, Athletic.net and others and I can honestly say I find Athletic.net far, far easier to use from a coach perspective and a record keeping perspective than the other two. I also don't know any of the coaches I talk to regularly who think Milesplit is better...

Not being able to pull up data can be a problem with providers/proximity to cell towers. (For example, at the indoor state meet.) But the clunky, hard to navigate site is because the website's design is not good with mobile devices.

Psychodad, if Yappi isn’t good for rehashing the same questions, it’s not good for anything. 😉 I have coached at the regional meets at Troy and PN, and seen both in a variety of conditions. I have coached at both of the other courses, but never for the regional. Based on the data I keep for a...

I tend not to care much about 1-5 split as a coach. Precisely because that alone has a very low correlation for the success of teams I have coached. It matters when #1 is really good. Doesn't matter nearly as much when #1 isn't as good. I actually have found that 5-8 spread matters more...

Milesplit is just not well designed from a software perspective. So it is hard to get things to work consistently well, particularly with mobile devices. Actually, maybe it is not fair to say it’s not well designed. It is just out of date, and it wasn’t really designed to do everything it is...

http://milesplit.live/meets/568705

In the central district (TimingFirst) things were pretty smooth. But they weren’t using Milesplit.

The argument being made here is that it IS the main differentiating factor when you are comparing the top teams in the state. Such as when a thread is asking who is going to win the state cross country meet.

Once again, coaching matters. It's funny that we are having this argument about how much coach matters in XC, where it is possible to make a decent case that coaching matters less than in football, basketball, baseball, soccer and similar "team all working together to score/precent scoring"...

That's actually really easy to answer. Let's compare Mason and Dublin Jerome, because the enrollment data was already posted in this thread, and they have very similar demographics and good resources, so we are justified in ignoring those as factors for a quick look at the data. Masons...

Main contributing factor isn't really that meaningful. Posters here trying to show that the size of the school isn't that important typically will point to large schools that are not good at cross country as their proof. And then go on to say or imply that this citation shows that Mason's size...

Saying that Mason's size doesn't matter that much, that it's mostly coaching, is insulting. Because you are saying that they are better coaches because they beat those other D1 schools. That's the point being made. I honestly can't think of a year when Mason's girls couldn't have defeated the...

No one is arguing for asterisks beside Mason’s accomplishments. What I and others said in this thread is that arguing that size doesn’t matter or is only a small factor is just not true. And it’s insulting to a lot of very good coaches at smaller schools. The OHSAA literally separates schools...

Well this discussion again. If you think size doesn't matter, that's simply not true. Size doesn't determine who wins. Coaching, demographics, resources, culture and luck all play a part. (That last one plays a LOT larger part than most of us would like to admit.) The best teams in D3 can almost...

I am just arguing that the two are consistent conference rivals and rivals in the post season. When the rivalry is between schools that are so physically close together and in the same division of the same conference, you race against each other a lot. And the conference meet bragging rights are...

A bit self-serving, but I think the Coffman v. Davidson rivalry has been pretty good, particularly on the boys side. In the same division of the same conference, with some close finishes, going back quite a while. Here are just a few of the results over the years. 2019 was Connor Ackley's only...

I am not a throws coach (although I have coached throws). I have coached throwers at the state meet, but only one in my time as a head coach who threw both implements at the same state meet. I went back and looked at data from my athletes at our OCC meet (two days), district (one day) and...