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John Holland, Camp Founder and Director
- Founder and Director for 37 years
- Masters PR’s of 4:36 for the mile to 2:33 for NYC marathon
- Sixth place finish at the National Masters Cross Country Championships
- Former Yorktown High School cross country and track & field head coach
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Roy Benson, Camp Director
- MPE, C.F.I., Exercise Scientist and Distance Running Coach
- Coached military, club, university, and high school teams for over 40 years
- Community cross country & track coach at Marist School in Atlanta since ‘93
- Nine Georgia state 4A XC championships including both boys and girls in ‘02 &’03
- Senior writer for Running Times & contributing editor for Running Journal magazines and Peak Running Performance Newsletter
- Author of “Precision Running” HR training booklet that has sold over 200,000 copies and been translated into seven languages. His two books on Effort Based training have sold over 8,000 copies
- NIKE Techlab consultant for pace, distance, and heart rate monitors.
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"God determines how fast you're going to run;
I can help only with the mechanics."
- Bill Bowerman
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You’re invited to join us in that runner’s heaven, the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for the Nike Green Mountain Running Camp. Learn why the founder John Holland and co-director Coach Roy Benson love the area enough to return for 37 straight years. In this incredibly runner-friendly setting, camp offers young runners the “Pre Challenge” to give nothing less than their best. Guest speakers such as Jeff Johnson provide our campers a personal look at the great Steve Prefontaine’s legendary and inspirational life, and also his University of Oregon coach, the late Bill Bowerman, who developed the model we base our training runs on: hard, but smart workouts. We teach young runners how to train intelligently.
Whether you are a rookie, veteran, or championship caliber athlete, pick one, two or all three of our great weeks to see why the best and brightest high school runners return year after year. You’ll be challenged by our trials of miles, but also enjoy our miles of smiles.
Green Mountain features additional instruction in our unique Advanced Placement X-C Class. Details for this class are provided during registration. No need for advanced sign-up.
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Nike Sponsored Camp
Green Mountain Running Camp has been sponsored by Nike for over 20 years. Because of our "Be Like Pre" awards and that our training philosophy at GMRC has its roots in the hard/easy system developed by legendary Oregon coach, Bill Bowerman, co-founder with Phil Knight of Nike, their relationship with GMRC is a natural and strong one. Nike's support consists of Nike products for staff and T-shirts for campers. More importantly, over the years, we have developed many close and special relationships with employees at Nike. These have enabled the camp to serve for testing prototype running equipment on campers and staff and to offer feedback on style, design and graphics. The close relationships between camp directors and Nike representatives have resulted in close friendships over the years with the likes of Geoff Hollister and Jeff Johnson, two individuals who were part of the genesis of the company. In addition, we are proud of the fact that today former campers/junior counselors work for Nike. Each summer we look forward to their return to spend time with our camp community.
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"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion
or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle,
or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle -
when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Inspirational sign on a runner's wall
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