This week, we kicked off the Mind Your Miles Book Club with one of the most iconic running books ever, Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear.

We break down the 1998 Colorado men’s cross country season, the team dynamic, the pressure cooker of chasing a title, and how different the book hits when you re-read it as a grown adult (and as coaches). We talk Wetmore’s methods, the training structure, the culture, the stuff that still holds up, and the stuff that makes you go, “Wait… they were doing WHAT?”

We also dig into some of the best little moments from the book, the characters that make teams work, and why you should read this book as a time capsule, not a training plan.If you’ve read it, you’ll have opinions. If you haven’t, you’ll probably want to.what we covered!!!

When we first read the book and what it meant back then

Big picture takeaways on the team + the era

Wetmore coaching breakdown (training, culture, weight talk, all of it)

Favorite scenes and random detailsWhy this book is still a classic, and why you shouldn’t copy-paste the training

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