November 03, 2015
Nike Adult Runners Retreat at White Oak Conservation Center
The Nike Running Camps introduces an adult running retreat for serious competitive and experienced recreational runners.
San Rafael, CA: Veteran coach and US Sports Camps director emeritus Roy Benson created a five day runners retreat February 22-26 at the White Oak Conservation Center near Amelia Island, Fla.
For a very limited number of runners, it is an opportunity for a most unusual experience in a hard to imagine setting, featuring 25 miles of dirt roads and grass trails, 4-star housing, gourmet meals, complimentary recreation activities such as bowling, pinball, fitness center, biking, tennis, kayaking, lake fishing, prescheduled golf, and one prescheduled group wild life tour.
Coach Benson’s program features the development of personal training plans and workouts using his Effort Based Training (EBT) philosophy that focuses first on heart rate response to exercise as well as the other two components of EBT: Perceived Effort and Pace per Mile. All runners receive a copy of Benson’s latest book “Heart Rate Training” by Benson and Connolly.
Runners will leave with a training program focused on a near-term target race and will have one month of follow up access by phone and email to Coach Benson for purpose of fine tuning their plans and workouts.
Offered are 1-2 daily runs, a relaxed vacation style schedule with concierge support while enjoying White Oak’s facilities in an African safari atmosphere. Its roughly 240 animals roam large tracts of natural land and some guests are allowed to feed and even pet endangered wildlife species from Africa, Asia and North and South America.
The White Oak Conservation Center, located in NE Florida along the St. Mary’s River border with Georgia, has dedicated over 700+ of their 12,400 acres of forests and land to the preservation of some of Africa’s most endangered species as well as the threatened Florida Panther. You will see rhinos, cheetahs, giraffes, Cape buffalo, okapi, zebras, and various other animals and birds.
White Oak is also the only place in the world with four of the five rhino species. It boasts one of the longest-running cheetah breeding programs in the U.S. and is the only breeding facility to raise parent-reared Mississippi Sandhill cranes for release.
At the NIKE Running Camps, the goals are to stimulate a love for running and to aid runners in becoming better, faster and smarter athletes. They provide an educational and inspirational experience for youth runners, all skill levels and abilities.
The mission of the Nike Running Camps is to educate and entertain the participants to become smarter runners. During all of the sessions, the runners enjoy private room accommodations, gourmet dining, complimentary recreational activities and training on the beautiful 25 miles of trails on site.
About US Sports Camps, Inc.
US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is America’s largest sports camp network and the licensed operator of Nike Sports Camps. Over 75,000 kids attended a US Sports Camp program in 2015. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement. Athletes, Coaches, Parents and others interested in learning more about our 2016 Nike Sport Camp programs can visit our website or call 1-800-645-3226.