Distance coaches, today is a big day for me. "Build, Don’t Borrow" is officially live on Amazon. I wrote this book for the coach sitting at the kitchen table in July with a blank spreadsheet, clinic notes spread across the table, a downloaded 12-week progression, and more saved workouts than they could ever use. I know that coach because that was me. For years, I could tell my athletes what we were doing. But when a season stopped following the plan, I couldn’t always explain what should change or why. The book grew from 23 questions I had to answer before I could build a training system I understood. "Build, Don’t Borrow: The Distance Coach’s Guide to Training Architecture" is the book I wish I’d had then. It is available now on Amazon. Link is in the replies.

I wrote a book. Been sitting on that sentence for two years and it still feels strange to type. Nobody taught me how to coach distance runners. I came out of a software career and got handed a roster. Everything I know I learned one season at a time, usually by getting it wrong first. At some point I stopped collecting workouts and started understanding why they work. That changed everything for my kids. This book is me writing all of that down so it doesn't take you twenty years like it took me. Build, Don't Borrow: The Distance Coach's Guide to Training Architecture. July 28. I'm proud of this one, coaches.