Event Description

CTM High Altitude Running Camp & Clinic

Monday-Friday, July 16 to July 20, 2018

Join us for the 48th Annual CTM High Altitude Camp at 7,800-foot elevation in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.

Event details and schedule

FIVE Action-Packed Days in the Mountains!

Longest Continuously Held Camp for Cross Country, Mid-Distance & Ultra Runners in California

PLACE:

The CTM High Altitude Training Camp is located 40 miles from Grass Valley at 7,800 feet elevation (Directions to Campground along with other information will be mailed to you upon receiving your fee and application). There are excellent outdoor campground facilities in Alpine-meadow country bordering a wild area with various wide running trails. There are also many lakes for fishing and swimming by runners between sessions:

CAMP DIRECTORS/STAFF:

Join Coach Nick Vogt and Coach Todd Nunan. This will be Coach Vogt’s 48th year directing the Camp. Vogt is the coach/director of the USA CTM Athletics Club. He has also had continual success, coaching at the high school, community college, university, and post-collegiate levels for over 48 years.  He is a graduate of California State University-Chico, were he competed in Cross Country and T&F, afterwhich he continued competitive running, becoming one of the top Ulta-runners in the 1980's to mid 1990's.

Coach Nunan, currently director of New Western Glory, is a former T&F coach of Idaho State University. He is one the most respected authorities on the subject of Kinematic Running Assessment and helping athletes and coaches understand how to achieve efficient biomechanical running technique.  Nunan received a Masters of Physical Education Degree (Athletic Administration) from Idaho State University in 2007.  His masters-thesis emphasis was neural kinesiology, where he conducted running-performance research at ISU. 

Also assisting at the camp will be top distance runners, triathletes, and coaches, as well as many other outstanding experts in the fields of sports medicine, physical therapy, nutrition, & sports psychology.

FIVE ACTION-PACKED DAYS:

The camp-clinic will involve participation and running by all those in attendance. Workout sessions will be conducted twice each day. To supplement the training activity, notable guest speakers will discuss various fundamentals of distance training and racing. Participants will cover between 8 and 14 miles daily; therefore they will find it to their advantage to be in some sort of basic condition far in advance of the camp.

TYPICAL DAY FOR TRAINING AND LECTURE SESSIONS:

FIRST SESSION: 7:00  -8:30 a.m. (running activity)

FIRST LECTURE:  9:30-10:30 a.m. (lecture/discussion)

SECOND SESSION: 3:30  - 5:30 p.m. (running activity)

SECOND LECTURE:  7:00 - 8:30 p.m,(lecture/discussionn)

BIBLICAL DISCUSSION:  8:30 -9:30 p.m. (group discussion)

HOW MUCH IS THE COST?  Only $60

COST AND APPLICATION: The entire registration cost is only $60 per participant for the entire five-day camp. (NOTE: Participants furnish their own food supply, bedding, and tents). The camp will be limited to the first 55 participants who register by mailing in their fee and application to the "Christian Runners Association". If accepted you will be sent the information and instructions for the camp... If not accepted, your fee will be returned. After acceptance, fees are not refundable; fees will be used for administrative and other clinic expenses.

Note: PARTICIPANTS furnish their own food supply, bedding and tents!