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2026 Summer Mileage recording form - Coming soon!
The first summer practice date will be Monday, June 1st and the final practice date will be Saturday, August 1st. Mandatory fall practices begin on the first day of school - Wednesday, August 5th. All athletes must have a physical on file to participate in summer practices.
Mileage – Runners will be capable of recording their total summer miles. If they keep track of their miles and run enough over the summer, they will receive a summer mileage reward shirt at the end of the summer. This is optional, but encouraged to be at your best.
Strava – An easy way to keep track of your mileage, especially if you get a GPS watch, is to create an account on Strava which is an online running log. I recommend that you keep your log marked as private or only visible to those you approve to follow you (feel free to request to follow any of our coaches). Once you do this and connect your GPS watch to the strava app, then it will upload them for you and you can easily see your weekly mileage on the site. Note - strava has features that are free and features that are paid and require a subscription. The paid features are very in depth and useful for elite athletes. But for beginners the free version is perfectly fine. The full in depth training log requires the subscription, but you can access all of your runs on the free version as well. To access your run history on the desktop version, just go to "training" and then "training calendar" or "my activities." On the strava mobile app go to the "you" button in the bottom right corner and click on the "progress" tab where you can see your weekly mileage for the most recent 12 weeks in a simple graph form. Or you can go to the "activities" tab and see all of your activities one at a time.
Schedule – This will be the weekly summer practice schedule for most weeks in the summer, exceptions noted below:
Mondays 7:30am @ Mason Mill Park (DeKalb Tennis Center)
Tuesdays 7:30am @ Murphy Candler Park(horseshoe road)
Wednesdays 7:30am @ Chattahoochee River (backup lot)
Thursdays 7:30am @ Murphy Candler Park(horseshoe road)
Fridays: run or cross train on your own.
Saturdays 7:30am @ Chattahoochee River (backup lot)
No practice weeks:
May 25th – May 31st: GHSA dead week #1, no practices allowed but runners can begin their summer training schedules and record miles.
June 28th – July 5th : GHSA dead week #2, no practices allowed but runners should still following their summer training schedules.
July 18th – 21st: team camp, all runners not at camp should still be running.
July 28th - 30th: We will practice at 6:45am during the week so that coaches can get to pre-planning on time.
Directions to the Chattahoochee river:
Take I-285W to Exit 22 New Northside Dr. Take a right off the exit ramp and go straight through the light. At the bottom of the hill there will be a bridge. Main parking is the first lot on the right after the bridge. Back up parking will be the lot before the bridge. Also, there is a charge of $5.00 if you are going to park there, or you can get a year round pass for $35. We will meet in the back up parking lot at 7:30.
Directions to Murphy Candler Park:
Take I-285W to exit 29 Ashford Dunwoody road. Turn left to head south on Ashford Dunwoody. Drive a couple of miles and then turn left on W. Nancy Creek Drive. Take this road for about a mile and you’ll see a lake on the left. Keep going past the lake and take your next left turn onto candler lake E, then turn left onto horseshoe road. We will meet in the grassy area on the right.
Directions to Mason Mill Park:
Take I-285 to exit 39A, US 78 W towards Decatur, Atlanta. Take the Exit for N Druid Hills Road and turn right. Follow this until you reach Clairmont Road and turn left. Shortly after that turn left into the park on McConnell Dr.
