Jesus on the Track
It's official: Jesus on the Track: A Christian Athlete's Guide to Handling Hard Days, Building Mental Toughness, and Growing in Faith is now available in both Kindle and paperback on Amazon — readable in whichever format fits your life.
The Kindle version launched three weeks ago as a #1 New Release in Short Christian Devotionals. As of today, Monday, April 27, 2026, the paperback joins it on the same Amazon page, with a format selector so you can choose either edition.
The book is short by design — four chapters, three reflection questions per chapter, a closing prayer, and a team discussion guide. Readable in one sitting. But the core idea at its center has taken me a lifetime of coaching and competing to understand fully.
Hard days are not accidents — they are invitations.
The shift that changes everything — for athletes, coaches, and anyone who has ever wanted to quit but kept going anyway — is learning to stop complaining and start offering. That transformation, grounded in two thousand years of Christian teaching and proven on the track, is what this book is about.
This book is for you if you are an athlete navigating a tough season, a coach who wants to lead your team toward something deeper than just winning, or a parent looking for a faith conversation that starts somewhere real.
Available now on Amazon — Kindle ($4.99) or paperback ($9.99): Order Jesus on the Track on Amazon
The book has had a meaningful start on Amazon. The next step that helps most now is reader reviews. If you've had a chance to read any of it, a few sentences on the Amazon page would mean a lot.
What's next
For those of you who have been following along, Mile Three is coming about a month behind this one. Two books. One mission. More on that soon.
Grateful and humbled by everyone walking alongside me on this.
Blessings, Coach Larry Weber Philippians 4:13
For those following along on the Amazon rankings — thank you for your encouragement. The #1 New Release is something I'm grateful for, though I want to be clear about what it means. Amazon ranks new releases separately from more established books with years of total sales behind them. It's a bit like being only at mile one of a marathon. Anything can happen over the next 25 miles. But mile one is behind us, and for that I'm thankful.
Please pass this small devotional book along. All net proceeds go to support youth running. Please also leave a short review if the book helped you in any way. This helps others find the book on Amazon's ranking service.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. — Philippians 4:13
Coach Weber
Mile Three Update on May 9, 2026: My new book, Mile Three, was released this week. I will give an update soon. Today, it reached #1 among all running books in America. Thank you to my readers for supporting this book!
What if the hardest mile your teenager runs is also the one that shapes who they become for the rest of their life?
In a single November race, seventeen-year-old Catelin King—her team's top runner and a state title favorite—collapsed at mile two. What happened next wasn't just a comeback story. It was proof of something Coach Larry Weber has spent fifteen years and thirteen state championships learning: the hardest part is what builds the best kids.
Mile Three is the book for every parent who worries their teenager is struggling, every coach who believes their work matters beyond the scoreboard, and every athlete learning—one hard mile at a time—who they are becoming.
Backed by a landmark 40-year Swedish study tracking 1.9 million teenagers and tested across 15 Washington State Cross Country Championships, Weber presents the Five Formations that cross country builds in young people: Courage, Discipline, Resilience, Humility, and Unity.
Inside Mile Three, you will find:
- The science behind why cardiovascular fitness at age 18 predicts cognitive performance, mental health, and life success at age 60
- The Level 10 Mental Toughness framework—a personalized system for building grit that actually lasts
- Real stories of athletes who fell, failed, and rose again—and what their coaches did that made the difference
- A practical roadmap for parents, coaches, and athletes, including the Five Commitments and what really matters in the coaching relationship
- How faith, sacrifice, and genuine love for young people are the most powerful formation tools available to any adult
Weber is a 2026 Washington State Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame inductee, a former Record Holder in the Original Ultimate Runner Competition, and a coach whose athletes have gone on to become Marines, firefighters, aerospace engineers, PhD researchers, and leaders in their communities—people who carry the character forged in mile three into everything that counts.
"The hardest part is what builds the best people."
Whether you are a parent wanting to give your teenager something that lasts, a coach who believes your work matters beyond the scoreboard, or an athlete learning one hard mile at a time, who you are becoming—the answer has been at the starting line all along.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. — Philippians 4:13
You can find Mile Three Here on Amazon: Mile Three: How the Hardest Part Builds the Best Kids
A note on reviews — and why I'm asking
Asking readers for things doesn't come naturally to coaches. We give. That's the job.
But I've learned something about how books work now that I want to share, because if you've read either Jesus on the Track or Mile Three, it might matter to you.
Here's the mechanics, plainly.
Amazon decides which books to show readers based on a number of signals. One of the strongest is the number of reviews a book has. A book with fewer than a handful of reviews looks new and unproven to the system, so it gets shown less often. A book with more reviews — even just twenty or thirty — starts appearing in the carousels, the search results, the "readers also bought" suggestions. The same book, the same words inside, but suddenly visible.
For books from large publishers, reviews accumulate naturally because the publisher has marketing budget and bookstore placement. For books like mine, that doesn't exist. The only thing that gets a small book in front of new readers is other readers saying something about it.
I'm not telling you this to make you feel responsible. You aren't. I'm telling you because if you've read one of the books and it spoke to you, you have something I can't manufacture on my own. You have an honest reader's voice.
What I'm asking is two minutes. A sentence or two on Amazon. Just what the book actually meant to you — whatever that is. Critical, mixed, glad you read it, wish I'd done something differently. Honest.
That's it. That's the whole ask.
Thank you for being someone who reads books that don't have a big publisher behind them. You're how they find the next reader.
— Coach Weber