Please read the notes below about Spring Season 2024 and then follow the link to registration.
Registration for Run Club's Spring Season 2024 is now open. Previous
runners have a guaranteed spot until March 1st. No payment will be due until
March 2nd. After you register online, you will receive a confirmation email
once Coach Scott has reviewed your registration. The girls team was full last season with 85
runners.
Practice Schedule: (Encinal Elementary School track/field: 195 Encinal Ave, Atherton)
** An Important Note About Girls/Boys Practice Days
** An Important Note About Practices
** An Important Note About Advanced Runners
** An Important Note About Carpools
Spring season (8 weeks) is lighter than fall season (12 weeks). Last fall, we raced 7 cross-country
races including 11 runners who advanced all the way to the Junior Olympics nationals
championships in Kentucky. This season, we will be training for two 5K races
and maybe one track race if it is available this year. We will not participate in Junior Olympics
for track as those are held at the end of July well past the end of our season.
Run Club is still the least expensive MPCSD after-school
3rd party program [only one under $24/hour ($23.95)]. Race fees for the Schoolhouse Rocks 5K are included in the price. There are no fees for coaching at races.
Please feel free to reach out to Coach Scott with any questions: scott@runclubmenlopark.org
Boys: Start on Monday March 18th. Practices: Mon/Wed 3:15-4:45 (even if there is no school that day)
Girls: Start on Tuesday, March 19th. Practices: Tue/Fri 3:15-4:45 (even if there is no school that day)
No Practices During MPCSD Spring Break: Apr 8th-12th.
Kids from non-Encinal schools (e.g. Hillview, Oak Knoll, Laurel, etc.) may arrive by 3:30 and not miss any running.
Last Practice: Friday, May 17th.
5K Races: Sat April 21st - My Heart Counts 5K, Stanford Campus. Sun May 19th - Schoolhouse Rocks 5K, Hillview Middle School.
Due to schedule conflicts, I allow girls to run at boys
practices and boys to run at girls practices. There is no difference between the
workouts that I have the girls and boys do anyway and this flexibility was
helpful for many of the kids who wanted to participate in Run Club. Last season,
Tue/Fri was full with 85 runners.
Your runner needs to attend all practices. Doctor, dentist, and other
appointments need to be scheduled for other days. We only practice two days a
week and in order to make running progress, your runner needs to be there for
both days. I have great flexibility for dual sport athletes who have schedule
conflicts, so feel free to reach out to Coach Scott about that if it affects
your runner.
This spring will be Run Club's 13th season and I have runners who have trained
with me for 12 seasons. Many of these runners are ready to advance their running
so I will be offering advanced runners the option to train one extra day each
week (3 days instead of 2). Run Club is technically an
after-school program that competes at the "Club" running level. Getting a third
day of training will give your runner a similar amount of training as a formal
"Club" runner while still allowing for plenty of rest and staying safe from
injury. In 12 seasons, we may have had as little as a single injury from
training or maybe even zero. Coach Scott's training philosophy is actually based
on lower volume but higher intensity and plenty of rest days.
Last year, we had very good carpools from
Hillview and other MPCSD schools, so let me know if you are interested in
carpooling and I can help parents organize.
After School Program: Per Hour
Run Club Menlo Park: $23.95
Pickleball: $24.85
Mad Science: $29.70
Basketball: $31.84
Cheerleading: $32.25
Ultimate Frisbee: $32.28
Chess: $33.25
Flag Football: $33.92
Piano: $34.00
Hip Hop Dance: $34.00
Drum Line: $34.00
Martial Arts: $34.42
Yoga: $34.42
Soccer: $34.90
Robotics: $36.09
Crochet: $37.59
Bookmaking: $37.60
Hi-5 Sports: $40.67
Skateboard: $41.32
Musical: $42.42
Guitar: $46.70
Tennis: $47.75
Ukulele: $49.00
Arts & Crafts: $49.00
Cooking: $49.73
Acting: $54.16
Fencing: $64.09
Compared to other USATF youth running clubs, RCMP is half the cost (e.g. Team
Onalysis San Francisco costs $1,300 for the Fall 2023 cross-country season).
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