Sign In | School | Bookmarks | News | Columns |Speakers | Tips | About Us | Contact COACH ED'S PAGE Advice on Children's Running and More Coach Ed is an experienced youth coach and children's fitness specialist. Get your questions about training and much more answered here. ED AND HIS KIDS Activate Attleboro Step Challenge 2009 | Activate Attleboro Step Challenge 2008 | Activate Attleboro Step Challenge 2007 | Attleboro Step Challenge 2006 | Coach Ed Hired as Fitness Specialist | Youth Track Meets | My Coach SO YOU WANT TO START A TRACK CLUB Practice TRAINING Cost of Running | Tag | 12-year-old working very hard at running. | Warming-up | Drills for Breathing DISTANCE Miles with a Purpose | Kids and 5Ks | Distance | Pre-schooler and distance | Distance for 10-year-olds | Want more distance | What's a 5-minute miler? | 10K for 11 year old | Timed Distances for Karate Black Belt | Distance for Young Kids | Soccer Training...Distance SPEED Fast Running | Faster Mile | Improving my Mile Time | Getting Fast and Eating Well | Weights for Kids? | Want that Presidential Challenge Award | Breathing | Getting Faster Thanks to your Competition | Pressure of Racing CROSS-COUNTRY Strong Finish in XC | Summer XC Schedule | Improving mile time for XC runner | Just want to get started | That last push in cross-country | Cross-country starts tomorrow - coaching advice | Foot strike for young runners | How long does the off season last? | High school training for young kids????? | Coming back to running | Need Variety at Practice | Training for XC with Hypoglycemia | Getting Ready for XC | Strength Runner on a Flat Course | New at Coaching XC | Games for Middle School Cross-country | Building Up Running for XC | Increasing Mileage for Competition | Off Season XC Training TRACK AND FIELD Spikes for the 800 | Track Basics | Gearing up for the 1500 | Training for the 1000 | Want to be a Sprinter | Start Something (a track club) | Multi-Events: Should I? | Barefoot Running, Spikes, and 100 Speed | Getting Ready for an Elementary School Track Meet |Jumping Higher and Higher |Is my daughter fast enough to join the track team? | Spikes | Track Spikes for Young Runner | Choosing Between Sprinting and Shot Put | Condition During the Off Season | Cool Workout for 800m | Schedule for the 800 | Preparing for the 800 | Schedule for the 1500 NUTRITION Sports Nutrition COMPETITION Relax Before the Big Race |When you're the best CROSS TRAINING Getting Ready for XC and Football | Mile Standard for Football Tryouts | Getting Fast for Soccer | Quickness in Soccer | Baseball |Endurance for Soccer | Football Speed INJURIES Knee FORM Form | Specialty Drill for Running Form | Flat Footed Stride | Drill for Form OVERALL CONDITIONING 12 Year Old Wants to Get Better |Running to the Point of Exhaustion and Cramping | Vomiting OUR YOUNGEST RUNNERS The Finish Line TRIATHLONS Youth Triathlons | Triathlons for kids Ed Poirier, "Coach Ed", recently was invited by the United States Olympic committee to attend a workshop and training seminar at the Olympic training center in California. Feel free to email the kid's editor at rwedit@rodale.com with comments on this column.