FAN CLOTH Fundraiser

My goal as an instructor is to build a program that will provide your student an opportunity to grow and develop not only as a student, but also as a member of the greater community. To do this to the best of my ability, our team requires additional funding so that we can provide a top-notch experience for your student.

This Fall (or other season), we will be partnering with Fan Cloth, the #1 fundraiser in the US for high school teams. Over the years, Fan Cloth has helped over 40,000 teams like ours get the funding they need by providing custom apparel for both teams and their fans to show their sense of team spirit.

Soon, your student will be bringing home the materials for this year’s Fan Cloth campaign. I strongly encourage you to read over all the materials and familiarize yourself with this awesome program. With these materials, there will be a special insert that will help you work with your student to reach our goals.

Here are a few tips that will help both you and your student throughout our fundraiser:

• ·         To make sharing as effortless as possible, Fan Cloth has a sharing tool you can use by texting your FC Catalog Number to 559-900-3222 to reach as many people as possible.
• ·         Reach out to friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to give everyone a chance to order.
• ·         Don’t forget to spread the word through social media.
• ·         Check in with your student during the campaign to make sure they always have their catalog and order form with them so that they can be actively selling to reach their incentive goals.

With your support, I’m certain we can reach our goals! Keep in mind, this will be the only chance to order custom gear with Fan Cloth this semester.

Here is a digital copy of our catalogue.  You should be receiving your paper copy by Monday. 

Sincerely,

Coach Bernard

Long Progression Run

Nationally ranked Edina HS from Minnesota doing a Long Progression Run. This is what I want groups 1,2,3 doing on Saturday this week.

Igloi Training Terminology

Way back in the stone ages, athletes from Hungary trained by a guy named Mihaly Igloi set 27 world records at distances from 1500m - 10000m.  His training would be considered unorthodox today, but back in the day, he got some great results.

One of Igloi's athletes, Laszlo Tabori immigrated to the United States where he coached a number of outstanding athletes.  One of his athletes, Bob Schul won the gold medal in the 5000m in the 1964 Olympics.  Another, Johnny Gray held the American Record at 800m for over 2 decades.

Johnny Gray went on to coach Khadevis Robinson, who explains the Igloi system a little bit in this video.

Khadevis Robinson On Igloi Paces

To Summarize

• Jog - We know what jog is, very slow, designed for recovery
• Easy - Easy effort, light bouncy steps
• Fresh - Faster than Easy, perhaps 5k-10k race pace.  Imagine there is a bar through your ankle you need to step over
• Swing - Same action of stepping over a bar, but now focus on driving off the back leg and driving the lead knee up.  Probably about mile race pace.
• Speed - This is the speed you would use in a finishing kick.  The focus should be on quickening the tempo while still maintaining the powerful stride mechanics.

Here is Bob Schul Winning Gold in 1964 He is #719.  Notice how he is in Fresh mode at first, then switches to Swing with about 600 to go then switches again to Speed with about 200 to go.