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Camp is for all abilities. Campers will train with others at similar levels. The positive environment has a place for everyone, whether your goal is to win a state championship or complete your first 5K. Camp provides a great place to make friends, learn training tips, and be around role models who can help you be a better runner, both physically and mentally.
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Sub 5 Running Camp offers training unlike any other program. Training focuses on the whole person, and incorporates physical and mental training. Runners leave camp with a stronger knowledge of training techniques, running form, racing tactics, mental strength, confidence, motivation, and goal setting.
Campers have departed camp with rave reviews, noticably increased motivation and confidence, and a network of running friends. Camp Alumni have achieved impressive results. Sub 5 has trained several All-State Runners and State Champions. The majority of runners leave with the knowledge and strength to reach new personal records.
Sub 5 Camp is a healthy mix of physical training, mental training, team building, and social activities. Morning distance runs and afternoon drills are intermixed with dips in the river, pool workouts, a low ropes course, a zipline across the river, yoga, mental training, skit night, bonfires, and of course food!
Past guest lectures have been about nutrition, picking running shoes, and becoming a college athlete.
A sample schedule gives a snapshot of a typical day at camp.
"Mind Fit, Body Fit" is the philosophy that emphasizes mental strength and physical performance. A week at camp will encompass exercises and drills that focus on each aspect individually, and combined. Coach Janet Leet was known as one of the toughest mental competitors in the field, and she has developed this program to teach the same strengths to aspiring runners.
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Janet offers off-season coaching programs that prepare runners for their upcoming seasons. Programs are tailored to the individual or group, and focus on mental strength, core strength, base mileage, and form through running drills.
Off-season training prepares athletes mentally, and with a training philosophy that they can take into their seasons. Janet also offers group running clinics. Please contact her for more details, or to schedule.
Camp has become a tradition for many girls' teams in Illinois and around the country. While you don't need your team to attend, it is an invaluable opportunity to train together, work on team building, and become closer. Teams that attend camp together will bunk together, and also take part in exclusive team building activities.
Please request your team as your cabin mates on your application.
No runner left behind! Sub 5 encourages complete teams to attend. Having trouble getting all your girls? Ask Janet for help.
Everyone has a place at camp! Runners will be in cabins of similar ages, and run in groups of similar abilities. Social activities will allow campers opportunity for interaction. Smaller group activities will allow you to share your story. While teams are welcome, Sub 5 is primarily individual runners.
Campers leave camp having met new friends for life. Runners usually stay in contact throughout the year, and often see friends from camp at cross country and track meets. New and old campers often can't wait to come back next year!
Camp is less than a full week, and filled with empowering and positive activities. Campers are grouped by age and experience, and quickly find things in common.
Camp is highly supervised, and once campers arrive, is a female-only closed campus. Coaches and counselors are experienced leaders, and are prepared for runners of all abilities and personalities.
Campers are allowed to receive mail during the session as well.
Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see is located near Kankakee, IL, where there is an Amtrak station and a bus station. Transportation is available to and from these stations.
Chicago is also served by O'Hare and Midway Airports. Transportation to either airport is available with prior arrangements with the staff.
Sub 5 Running Camp is a unique experience that is not offered elsewhere in the country. Camp as attracted runners from all over the United States, and from as far away as Hawaii!
Camp director and head coach Janet is happy to answer any more questions!
You can contact her in several ways:
Email: janet@runsub5.com
Phone: 847-818-9374