The topic most coaching resources skip. What RED-S is, the warning signs that show up in training data first, real calorie needs for female distance runners, and how to develop athletes without breaking them.

SHOW NOTESFull article: Coaching Female Distance Runners, What the Science Actually Says https://coachsaltmarsh.com/coaching-female-distance-runners/When fatigue becomes overtraining: https://coachsaltmarsh.com/when-fatigue-becomes-overtraining/Zone 2 and the polarized easy/hard approach: https://coachsaltmarsh.com/zone-2-training-for-high-school-runners-solving-the-4-year-burnout-crisis/Strength training for high school distance runners: https://coachsaltmarsh.com/strength-training-high-school-distance-runners/The 22-Week Season Blueprint: https://coachsaltmarsh.com/store-coach-saltmarsh/If you or an athlete's family needs support with disordered eating, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders offers a free helpline staffed by licensed clinicians: https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com

Why so many promising freshmen are done by senior year, and why “more miles always” breaks them. The Zone 2 case for training slower to race faster, and the numbers that back it up.

SHOW NOTES

Full article: Zone 2 Training for High School Runners, Solving the 4-Year Burnout Crisis

https://coachsaltmarsh.com/zone-2-training-for-high-school-runners-solving-the-4-year-burnout-crisis/

What is an easy run? Zone 2 vs the Daniels method:

https://coachsaltmarsh.com/zone-2-training-vs-the-daniels-method-what-is-an-easy-run/

When fatigue becomes overtraining:

https://coachsaltmarsh.com/when-fatigue-becomes-overtraining/

Chronic sleep debt is wrecking your season:

https://coachsaltmarsh.com/chronic-sleep-debt-is-wrecking-your-season/

The Norwegian Method 14-Week XC Plan:

https://coachsaltmarsh.com/norwegian-xc-training-plan/

The 22-Week Season Blueprint: https://coachsaltmarsh.com/store-coach-saltmarsh/

Coach Jason Saltmarsh takes on the job almost nobody plans for: getting handed a middle school team. Most coaches make one of two mistakes with it. They water down the varsity plan, or they treat it as supervised recess. Both cost you the same thing, which is the freshman class that walks in two years later.

This episode covers what the job actually is, why minutes beat miles at this age, and how to deliver real training to athletes who will race anything you put in front of them.

• Why the number on the schedule should be minutes, not miles

• How to run a hard workout that a twelve-year-old cannot turn into a time trial

• The seventeen minutes of every practice that most coaches skip

• What USATF actually says about race distance, and the number to quote to a parent

• One loop, one clock, six doses: coaching grades five through twelve at once