The Youth and Teen Running Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide for Middle and Long Distance Runners Ages 6 to 18 - Paperback

by John Molvar (Author), Mick Grant (Author)

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. 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..

Author Biography

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.