Distance Training Simplified (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781720504023)

Sean O'Connor (or OC to his friends), is a high school cross-country and track coach in St. Louis, Missouri. OC began coaching distance runners in 2005 as an assistant at Pattonville High School. Lafayette (Wildwood) High School awarded him the head boys' cross-country coaching position in 2011 and the boys' distance position in 2014. An accomplished distance runner himself (OC has a PR at the Boston Marathon of 2:49), OC shares in this book what he learned from his mentors, his idols as well as from his failures and his many successes. Sean took the cross-country program at Lafayette High from mediocre to meteoric and the school's first state title in just four seasons. In his short tenure at Lafayette, he has coached two individual state champions in cross-country along with eight individual and three relay state champions in track, winning the respect of his peers and opponents alike. The "OC Funnel" method he created to train his runners is the basis for his training philosophy and colossal success.