Join anytime: High School Distance Summer 2024

Registration Coming Soon

Our Summer season begins in early June (more information coming soon).

Come join our REAL Training High School Distance - Central crew for our Summer season! We train primarily in Niwot and the surrounding area. We’d love to add your energy to our group.

  • Build fitness

  • Develop speed

  • Gain confidence

  • Have fun training consistently with a BIG group of your peers

  • Prep for the XC season!

  • Learn how to be a healthy athlete

  • Move up on your team and help their chances this fall

  • Dream big

We welcome beginning runners and welcome back those athletes continuing their development in the sport.

Early June – August 10th

  • 5-6 Days/Week (!)

  • Mondays, Tuesdays, (Wednesday trail runs later in the summer), Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays

  • Stay tuned for times, locations, and end date.

Schedule/Training Locations (2023 locations shown for reference, 2024 locations coming soon)

Costs:

  • Registration Fee: TBD

  • Annual Fee (if first 2024 REAL Training season): $100

  • AAU membership: $20

  • Other potential costs: race entry fees, uniform/team gear, and travel/transportation.

Flexibility:

  • Please note: Athletes can and do join us anytime during the season & if athletes can't join every practice, we're happy to have part-timers. We'll talk about prorating registration fees & always provide an individualized training plan.

  • Come try out a practice or two before committing! We’d love to show you what we’re all about.

Financial assistance:

  • REAL Training aims to help athletes reach their potential as athletes and humans, while not excluding athletes who may lack financial means. Please contact Coach Christensen for more information—we don't want money to be a limiting factor in the development of young runners.

Questions:

We develop endurance, determination, and confidence. We train as a team to build up our runners so they're better equipped for whatever comes their way in running, school, and life. We prepare our runners for high school and college cross country and track.

What Does the Training Look Like?

Our practices include pre-run prep, helping our young runners with a full assortment of glute activation, hip mobility, athletic development, and just specifically getting them ready for what they're about to do—run. Our pre-run prep menu includes mini-band work, leg swings, group drills, agility ladders, speed cones, hurdle drills, and more.

Most of our runs will take place on soft surfaces with varied terrain—grass, hills, track, flats, gravel trails, and dirt roads.

Runs and workouts are varied. Hills are a common theme. Long runs, tempo/threshold training and Interval running all have a spot in the training program. Race paces and energy systems are introduced and developed during practice. Training will be varied, with some recurring workouts.

The runs and workouts are differentiated based on fitness, age, injury concerns, goals, and an athlete's talent.

REAL = Responsibility. Education. Athletics. Leadership.

Our guiding principles are present throughout our program and coaches are always looking for ways to help our kids grow as humans. We are running ambassadors in the community, making friends with our neighbors and fellow trail users. At practice, meets and races, we good teammates and grateful competitors, respecting our opponents and hosts, by leaving our area better than we found it, and being thanking for those who made the competition possible.