r/CrossCountry

1st year coach with a small team at a small school. We have conference next Thursday. Last Friday we do a very cool night meet that the kids love and are always fast at. We had a meet yesterday at a school that is pretty close to us and is a good course. But the kids were all gassed from having ran on Friday.

There are some meets we can do on Thursday next year but I'm curious what people think about the idea of not having a meet the week before conference. We've always had one week where there isn't a meet and I've figured out a way to plug that hole earlier in the year.

I am a youth coach. I coach kids 7-12 years old. I am also a parent of a young runner. I follow a lot of XC content on Instagram. One of the new trends when high schoolers sign their letters of intent, they post a picture from when they first started running. If you follow MileSplit on IG, you can see a lot of these pictures. Makes me smile every time I see it, and I don't even know these kids. Keep this tradition alive as long as possible.