Coach Reed

As a young coach I am thankful for good, science based companies like @ALTIS who provide high quality educational content that is largely backed by research. Their free content is helpful but every penny of my hard earned money I’ve spent on courses has been worth it!

I completed the “From Gun to Tape” course on running a fast 100m from @ALTIS this evening. Can’t wait to start the highly acclaimed “Coaching the Short Sprints” course soon!

TASK: Shatter a 43 year old school record in the girls 4x100m relay STATUS: ✅ PREVIOUS TASK FROM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO: Break the school record in the girls 4x200m relay STATUS: ✅

He race modeled this 100m race better than most of the multi-year track athletes on the track after only spending a couple of practices focused on it. The 100m is so fast and intense that it’s really easy to get sped up and not execute. But LB locks it in!

What sticks out to me the most about LB’s progress on the track is his ability to learn new skills and then execute them in high pressure situations right away!

Not many freshman will execute their 400’s like he does because they’re not strong enough to, and Amisi pays a steep price for executing them like he does. But the race modeling habits that he has learned to execute so well will lead to some big time results in the coming years!

Amisi is as gutsy of an athlete as you’ll find! He attacks his 400’s EXACTLY as I coach him to and executes at a high level. As he gets older and more trained that last 100 meters of the race is going to come along and he’s gonna be a FORCE🙌

Every track athlete benefits from running the 400m. There’s no better way for an athlete to learn how to be physically & mentally tough and to learn how to compete than by running 400’s. And, the 4x4 is pretty fun! We had lots of kids scared to death but ended up loving it!

I have the goal to make Olympus a 400/4x400 school. I’ve been hesitant to force it this season for a number of reasons but times are changing with my first installation of “everyone runs the 4x4 this meet”.

It was WINDY today. Like… so so so windy. But I wasn’t gonna let our first day with a non-snow covered track go to waste. And the best part? Not one single complaint about the wind or the really hard workout. Give me kids like that any day!

We’ve been stuck inside every day this week so I decided that instead of a normal warm-up we’d spice things up with a few rounds of sharks & minnos! We avoided any injuries… barely. Ike nearly got killed……. multiple times.

And while our sprinters/jumpers were inside because of snow covered track our distance crew was out doing this. Talk about a VIEW.

Fast teams run FAST. First workout of the year is in the books for the Olympus sprinters and was based around drills for sprinting FAST and then sprinting FAST.