What would the 1500-10k WR's be if Komen trained with salazar back when he ran?

Why do you think that? When has Salazar ever coached someone to a world record?

Komen ran in the 90s; if he were coached by Salazar then he would have tested positive.

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kxkd wrote:

Why do you think that? When has Salazar ever coached someone to a world record?

Besides himself to some degree? At least until it was determined his thon was short by a bit.

While of course he would benefit from advanced technologies, I think the inspirational element of training in his natural (and perhaps scenic, magnificent, beautiful) and native home grounds cannot be underestimated. Perhaps if Salazar went to Kenya and brought some of his technologies with him...

Anyways, I have a romanticized, perhaps overly so, notion, especially of Komen and his Kenyan glory days training. There is this picture I once came across of Komen running up a dirt road behind a school bus in Kenya. Wish I could find it again and wish I had saved it.

ThuMbs_uP wrote:

There is this picture I once came across of Komen running up a dirt road behind a school bus in Kenya. Wish I could find it again and wish I had saved it.

same story wrote:

http://running.competitor.com/files/2011/05/FirstImpression03.Getty_.jpg

Is that a school bus? It looks more like a military convoy.

[] wrote: Is that a school bus? It looks more like a military convoy.

It is obvious, you have never visited another country.

Pretty sure he was already "training with Salazar" if you mean it that way...

Great picture.

I think that Komen would have been slower. The Komen approach is almost the opposite of the Salazar approach, or at least it seems to be- as Salazar describes it. Salazar is all about compensating for the fact that his athletes didn't come from dog-eat-dog poverty, did not live the majority of their lives at 7000 ft. above sea level, and did not have beastly mileage regimens from a very young age. If somehow Salazar got his hands on a Komen-esque youngster, I don't know if he would know what to do. On the other hand, if Salazar's coaching had started a few years earlier, maybe he could have kept Komen's career alive, as he seems to have done with Ritz.

Never been anywhere, have you? wrote:

[] wrote: Is that a school bus? It looks more like a military convoy.

It is obvious, you have never visited another country.

Lol, or seen a military convoy.

My first thought is, It really is a question one can't find a meaningful answer for. The hypothetical, while seductive to ponder over, the answers can't reflect the aim of the suggestion of the question.

As the processes are completely different, with their own aspects and their own particular contexts, the fusion as suggested can not meet.

But it may be worth the discussion, if we want to analyze Alberto for the sake of his methods and philosophy. This may be what you are looking for from the fact that you asked this question.