This year’s cross country clinic is going to be tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 at the University of Southern Maine’s Gerald Talbot Auditorium in Luther Bonney Hall on the Portland Campus.
The lineup is very similar to last year, with the addition of 3 world class athletes and a nutritionist, although Bob Bramen, the head coach of Florida State University, will not be in attendance.
Join Maine Running Company’s 2nd Annual XC Coaches and Athlete’s Clinic. Keynote speaker will be Matt Lane, Former World Class 5K (13:25) and 10K Runner, 4th in U.S. Olympic Trials 2000 and 2004, Lauren Fleshman (14:58 5K; 3 time NCAA Champ (Stanford); US Champ – 2006) and Louie Luchini, current world class 5K (13:25) and 10K (28:41) runner. Lane and Luchini both grew up in Maine and are considered two of the best to ever come from the state.
Their Topic will be: “What I wish I knew in High School that I know Now” They will discuss Training, Racing and TeamWork!”
I will have a post-clinic summary within a few days if you can’t make it tonight.
(More Info: Maine Running Company)
The clinic was great! I took about 20 pages of notes. I will be creating an article about my notes in the next day or two.
The venue was much better this year, so I got some good pictures (hopefully) -- the coaches took a back seat since we were fortunate enough to have 3 professional runners come in and answer questions (although to be fair one of them has retired and is now in law school.)