The cost of the clinic will be $100.00 for coaches, $40.00 for athletes.
If you would like more information on this clinic, where there will be plenty of give-a-ways from free shoes (as many as 50 pairs) to t-shirts from sponsors along with a BBQ luncheon. You should contact Rob McLeod at 816-547-8709 or email him at training_run@yahoo.com for price information.
This past week I had the pleasure of visiting with Rob McLeod, What a pleasure it was. For those of you who do not know who Rob is or are not old enough to know, Rob is a native a native Kansan. He is a 1972 graduate of Valley Falls High School, a former Cross Country runner and track athlete for the Dragons. Mr. McLeod, never won a state title in high school finishing third several times, he was a 4:28 miler and had aspirations of being the next Jim Ryan. This story does not end with that, Rob went on to attend Pittsburg State and was a 3X conference champion and a 5X time All American at Pitt State. After Pitt State he moved to California to train with the famed Santa Monica Track club with hopes of winning a spot on the 1980 Olympic team, that dream never materialized. So Rob moved back to Kansas and became a coach where he coached 4 conference champions and 4 All Americans at Pitt State in 1980-81 before the team was dissolved because of budget cuts.
Rob McLeod has spent much of his life training distance runners and now has a new dream. Mr McLeod is starting the Training Run Track Club out of Kansas City. This is a club that will give post collegiate athletes the opportunity to continue their careers as runners after college. Rob has a talent and a rare gift for coaching athletes to become elite and reach beyond what they thought was possible.
Mr. McLeod has started a professional track club in the heartland. Rob has backers a board of directors and sponsors to get the club rolling.
Now he is hosting a clinic with arguably two of the best distance coaches this country has ever had speaking at it.
John McDonnell whose accomplishments include
· 20 conference triple crowns since 1982, including eight straight between 1987 and 1995
· 25 consecutive conference titles in cross country with indoor track and outdoor track combined from 1987 to 1995
· 73 conference championships in the last 77 events Arkansas has entered since 1981-1982
· 84 conference championships overall since 1974 including 38 in the SWC and 46 in the SEC (out of a possible 50, or 90 percent)
· 12 consecutive NCAA indoor track championships (1984–1995)
· coached 185 track All-Americans, earning 652 separate All-America honors
· 34 consecutive league cross country championships, including 17 straight in the SEC (1974–2007)[1]
· 54 individual national champions
· 23 Olympians coached spanning three decades and six different Olympic Games including gold, silver and bronze medalists
· his 1994 indoor track squad won the national championship by the widest margins in the history of the sport as well as scored the most points (94) in the history of the NCAA event
· his 1994 squad scored a meet record 223 points at the SEC Outdoor Championships
· has been named national, regional or conference coach of the year a total of 140 times
· has coached 23 Olympians, including gold, silver and bronze medalists, 105 NCAA individual event champions and 331 individual event conference champions
Joe Vigil who has a resume of
· Head coach of men's cross-country at Adams State College for nearly 30 years
· 12 NAIA cross-country team championships
· First-Team All-Rocky Mountain Conference for football at Adams State in 1953
· 8 state high school track and field championships while coach at Alamosa High School
· 13-time NAIA cross-country coach of the year
· 2-time NAIA track and field coach of the year
· Long distance running coach for 1988 U.S. Olympic Team
· Head coach for 1997 Pan-American Games
· NAIA Hall of Fame member
These two men along with other well respected High School Coaches from the Kansas City area will be speaking.
This clinic is not only for coaches but athletes as well in hopes of getting more Midwestern runners to come join him and see what this newly formed club has to offer.
If you would like more information on this clinic, where there will be plenty of give-a-ways from free shoes (as many as 50 pairs) to t-shirts from sponsors along with a BBQ luncheon. You should contact Rob McLeod at 816-547-8709 or email him at training_run@yahoo.com for price information.
There is a reduced price for athletes and more information than the normal coach will be able to take in. If you consider yourself a distance coach you might want to come listen to the two keynotes they might have a few things up their sleeve you didn’t know.