“They were setting barriers.” ‘A new stratosphere’ “I wanted them to realize they can run faster than they think,” Brosnan said. “I feel like that’s long,” said junior Lex Young after completing the elongated mile.Īfter the workout, he let his runners in on the ruse, explaining they had all just run three seconds faster than they had thought. More: Newbury Park produce perfect performance at CIF-SS cross country finalsīefore one particularly difficult workout in October, during the team’s four-week span without a race, Brosnan added a few extra meters after marking out the distance. “There’s better ways to train to get the results that we’re trying to get.” “There are a lot of programs who run more than that,” Tanya Brosnan said. The total barely eclipses 60 miles per week, typically.
The Panthers typically only have one “hard” workout a week, as well as one “long” run, a “tempo” run and a few easier training runs. On Tuesday, he told one runner to warm down in the middle of the workout. He adjusts in the moment, depending on what he sees. Just because he wrestled with the day’s plan the previous night, it doesn’t mean Brosnan will stick with it. “He realized he couldn’t watch them if he’s running with them.” “This is what he does,” said Brosnan’s wife, Tanya, who is an assistant coach.
But as they gained speed over the past five years, Brosnan began riding an electric scooter to keep his ever-watchful eye on his athletes as they trained, shouting out times to keep the runners on pace. The 44-year-old former Division 2 runner used to run with his teams. Which, on this day, involved both teams taking turns running specific distances at a specific split, pacing themselves as they would in a race. Sean Brosnan arrived an hour before his team on Tuesday morning.įour days before the Newbury Park High cross country team attempted to become the second cross country program to successfully defend both a boys and a girls CIF-State championship simultaneously - despite the year-long interruption of the pandemic - the head coach marked out the exact distance he wanted his teams to run on the forgivingly soft grass at Conejo Creek South Park in Thousand Oaks.īrosnan was up late, as usual, coming up with his workout plan. View Gallery: Newbury Park High School cross country team
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