Hanson's Coaching Services: 2010 and beyond.

Hello everyone, with 2010 well underway, it's probably a good idea to update everyone on what is going on with the coaching. 2009, despite the economy, was a good year for Hanson's Coaching. I am not saying I made a million dollars, but we at least stayed in business! I have a lot of ideas that I am working on to make me a better coach to all of you, and the coaching as good of an experience as possible. So, here is what I would like to accomplish over the course of the year.

1) Create a blog and make sure the website (http://www.hansonscoachingservices.com/) has current information on it. I would also like to be more involved on social networking sites like facebook, runnerslounge, athlinks, strands, and a couple of others. These are all great ways to post writings and be involved with athletes on a regular basis.

2) Develop training schedules that are an affordable option for everyone. My idea is to create training schedules based on event and weekly mileage intervals so that anyone can have a pretty specific training schedule for whatever distance they are training for. Currently, I have 20 week marathon schedules created and avaliable for download from my home site. The schedeules will be 20, 16, 12, and 8 weeks for the marathon, half marathon, 10k, and 5k. The weekl mileage will be for 20-40 miles per week, 40-60, 60-80, 80-100, and 100+ miles per week.

3) Update trainng notes and add to the training packets. I have been working on these too, ut luckily, the coaching has been busy enough, that it takes most of my time. I would like to update notes on all training variables and nutrition, core, resistance training, drills, etc.

4) Update our annual marathon clinics. I would really like to create some podcasts, mp3s of the presentations, including powerpoint presentations and discussions. This would allow for the clinics to expand beyond the 4 Hanson's Running Shop locations, since we can be a little crowded in a couple of the stores. Plus, it allows for people from anywhere to hear my lovely voice!

Those are the four big goals for 2010. We have begun work on most of them, while hopefully, the others will get some attention soon. I hope to hear from you and wish all of you the best this year!

-Luke