Make the next training decision with a reason you can explain.
The Run By Numbers Coaching Toolkit helps high school distance coaches understand their athletes, compare workouts, build progressions, and shape a season without starting every decision from scratch.
You bring the athlete, the goal, and the situation. The Toolkit helps you see your best options and what each one would change.
Nine tools. Monthly or annual membership. Thirty-day First-Plan Guarantee.
Most coaching problems do not require a brand-new season.
They require an answer to the decision in front of you.
A runner has a strong 1600 time but keeps fading late in cross country races. What actually needs more training?
You found a workout you like, but your junior varsity runners are not ready for the version you were given. What can you change without losing the reason for doing it?
You want your athletes to handle a specific workout six weeks from now. What should they be able to do first?
Monday's workout and Thursday's workout both look good by themselves. Do they still make sense when you put them in the same week?
You know the questions.
The difficult part is finding an answer that fits this athlete, this week, and this point in the season.
Looking for an answer usually gives you more options.
You open a training book. Search through old clinic notes. Look at another coach's plan. Scroll through saved workouts. Add another tab to the spreadsheet.
Now you have six things you could do.
You still do not know which one fits.
The problem is not finding something you could do.
The problem is knowing why you would choose it.
More workouts are not the same as a clearer decision.
I built the Toolkit for the moments when the plan no longer fits the athlete in front of you.
I have spent twenty years coaching cross country and track at Texas 6A schools.
I have planned seasons that produced State champions and nine straight cross country State qualifications. I have also planned seasons that looked much better in July than they did once real athletes, weather, illness, racing, and school schedules got involved.
Those seasons taught me that coaches rarely need more possible answers. They need a better way to compare the answers they already have.
The Toolkit does not replace your judgment. It helps you slow the decision down, see what each option changes, and choose with a reason.
Bring one real coaching question. Leave with a decision you can explain.
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Start with the actual situation
Enter the athlete, workout, training week, goal, timeline, and constraints you are working with.
02
See what the evidence points to
The Toolkit identifies assumptions, compares options, explains tradeoffs, and shows what you should watch next.
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Make the call
Choose the option that fits your athletes and your program. Keep the reasoning so the decision can teach you something later.
The Toolkit does not coach your team.
It helps you see the decision clearly enough to coach them yourself.
Here is what that looks like with one athlete.
Your best miler has plenty of closing speed, but he keeps fading during the final mile of cross country races.
You think he needs more endurance. But you do not want to rewrite the season based on a hunch.
Read the athlete
The Capacity Profiler compares his race performances and shows whether the ratios support what you think you are seeing.
Name the training job
The Role Explorer helps you understand what kind of training would address the gap.
Choose and fit the workout
The Workout Selector compares several sessions. The Workout Translator explains what a workout actually does. The Workout Modifier fits it to this athlete without changing its purpose.
Size the challenge
The Density and Complexity Explorer shows how demanding the workout will be when you place it next to the rest of the week.
Place it in time
The Weekly Structure Interpreter shows how the session interacts with the other six days. The Progression Explorer builds the steps between what the athlete can do now and what you want him to handle later.
Connect it to the season
The Architecture Designer connects the decision to the rest of the season and gives you checkpoints for seeing whether the training is working.
Now the workout is no longer an isolated idea.
It addresses a need you can name, fits the athlete doing it, belongs in the week around it, and points toward the runner you are trying to develop.
Nine tools for the decisions that shape a season.
Every tool begins with a real coaching situation and ends with options, reasoning, and something specific to watch next.
Understand the Athlete
Before choosing training, find the gap worth closing.
Role Explorer
Know what kind of training can close the gap.
Choose the job you need the training to accomplish. See what develops it, how it fits the season, and what it should look like for beginner, intermediate, or advanced athletes.
Explore a Training RoleCapacity Profiler
Know what this athlete needs most right now.
Enter the athlete's race times and see whether speed or endurance is limiting the target event, which gap matters most, and what that means for training.
See an Athlete ProfileMake the Workout Fit
Choose, understand, or change a session without losing the reason for doing it.
Workout Translator
Know what a workout actually does before you use it.
Paste in any workout and see what it develops, who needs to be ready for it, where it fits, what should come before and after it, and the most common ways coaches misuse it.
Translate a WorkoutWorkout Selector
Choose a workout because it fits, not because it is familiar.
Name what you want the session to accomplish. Compare three to five different workouts that can train it, including who each option fits and why you might choose one over another.
Compare Workout OptionsWorkout Modifier
Make one workout fit different athletes without changing its purpose.
Start with the original session and get three versions built for the athlete in front of you. See what must stay, what can change, and what each modification costs.
Modify a WorkoutDensity & Complexity Explorer
Change the challenge without automatically changing pace or volume.
See how recovery, spacing, and execution demands change what a workout asks of your athletes. Compare ways to make the session more or less demanding while preserving its purpose.
Adjust the ChallengeBuild the Week and Season
Make sure today prepares your athletes for what comes next.
Progression Explorer
Build the steps between what athletes can do now and what they need to do later.
Enter a goal workout and deadline. Compare three ways to reach it, including milestone sessions, what changes at each step, what stays the same, and the warning signs that should make you change direction.
Build a ProgressionWeekly Structure Interpreter
See how the workouts in your week affect one another.
Lay out seven days of training and see the job of each session, how stress and recovery interact, what the week assumes about your athletes, and what the week is trying to build.
Read a Training WeekArchitecture Designer
Turn a season goal into a plan you can monitor.
Enter the goal, current performances, timeline, and constraints. Get a reality check, the most likely bottleneck, a phase map, evidence checkpoints, and three season approaches to compare.
Design a SeasonWhat changes when every decision has a reason?
- You can explain why two athletes may need different versions of the same workout.
- You can change a workout without accidentally changing its purpose.
- You can see when three good workouts create a bad week.
- You know what should improve before you move to the next step.
- A poor race gives you specific questions to investigate.
- A canceled practice does not automatically force you to rewrite the week.
- Next season begins with what you learned from this one.
The goal is not to remove uncertainty from coaching.
The goal is to know how to respond when uncertainty arrives.
See the work before you buy.
Every tool includes a complete demonstration based on a real coaching situation.
You can see what the coach enters, what the Toolkit returns, how specific the analysis becomes, and whether the reasoning would help you make a better decision.
No account is required to view the demonstrations.
Less than a clinic weekend. Useful every week of the season.
A clinic can give you new ideas. The Toolkit helps you decide what those ideas mean for your athletes.
Founding pricing rewards early action.
Subscribe in the first two weeks after doors open and your founding rate is locked for as long as you stay subscribed.
Your membership includes
- Access to all nine coaching tools
- A worked demonstration for every tool
- Unused monthly credits roll over, up to 300
- The thirty-day First-Plan Guarantee
Founding Coaches also receive
- A copy of Build, Don't Borrow
- A live season-design call
Monthly
$29.99/mo
100 Coaching Credits every month. Unused credits roll over, up to 300.
You'll create a free account first — it takes about thirty seconds.
Annual
$299/yr
1,200 Coaching Credits up front each year.
You'll create a free account first — it takes about thirty seconds.
Renews automatically. Cancel anytime — access continues to the end of your billing period.
Every subscription is backed by the thirty-day full-refund guarantee. Already a Founding Coach? Sign in →
The First-Plan Guarantee
Use the Toolkit to work through a real season, progression, or training problem. If it has not changed how you plan or adjust training within thirty days, email me and I will refund the full purchase price.
No form. No call. No exit interview.
Read the Refund PolicyThis is for coaches who want help thinking through the decision.
The Toolkit is a good fit if
- You want to compare options instead of receiving one unexplained answer.
- You want to understand why a workout belongs before using it.
- You want to adapt training to the athletes you actually coach.
- You want to keep the final decision in your hands.
The Toolkit is not a good fit if
- You want a finished season handed to you.
- You want software to make the final coaching decision.
- You coach only sprint events.
- You are unwilling to reconsider a workout when the evidence says it does not fit.
Questions coaches ask
Do I need to read the book first?
No. Every tool explains its reasoning as it works. The book teaches the complete Training Architecture framework, but the Toolkit can be used on its own.
Does the Toolkit create my entire training plan?
No. The Architecture Designer creates a phase map, checkpoints, and several season approaches to compare. It does not produce a complete day-by-day calendar. The Toolkit helps you design the plan. It does not pretend to coach the team for you.
My season is already planned. Is the Toolkit still useful?
Yes. You can use it to evaluate athlete needs, understand workouts already on the calendar, modify sessions, check the structure of a week, and decide what should change when the season stops following the original plan.
What is a Coaching Credit?
Each analysis costs between one and five credits, depending on the tool. The Monthly plan grants 100 credits every month, and unused credits roll over up to 300. The Annual plan grants 1,200 credits up front each year. Top-up credits can be purchased any time and never expire.
Which events does it support?
The Toolkit is designed for cross country and track distance events from the 800 meters through the 5K.
What happens if I cancel?
Your access continues through the end of the billing period you already paid for. Any credits you haven't used are still there if you resubscribe later — they wait for you, they don't disappear.
What happens after the founding window closes?
The founding window covers the first two weeks after doors open. After that, the book and the live season-design call are founding bonuses and won't be included for new subscribers. If you subscribed during the founding window, your rate stays locked for as long as you remain subscribed.
How does the refund work?
Email me within thirty days of your first payment. I will refund the full amount. There is no form, phone call, or exit interview.
Make the next decision without starting over.
Bring the real athlete, the real goal, and the real problem. See your options. Understand what each one changes. Make the call with a reason you can explain.
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