It's Official: Nijel Amos will train in the US under Mark Rowland this year

Spike with a colleague yesterday that mentioned Amos will be in Portland/Eugene from early May through late June to train. Will be nice to see him on the Amazon.

Some scrub who could barely beat Nick Symmonds and couldn't beat Rudisha.

I thought this thread would be about his excessive partying and baller lifestyle being his running downfall. That's what people blamed his poor Rio performance on. Good to hear he's with OTC.

For Amos the move to OTC is probably good, because he'll have a consistent and healthy environment to be in. Just needs to get down south once in awhile and get some sun in for his black skin to produce vitamin D.

He's obviously super naturally talented. The only way I see this going bad is if Rowland is an idiot and puts him on the same training plan of Jock, which is badly suited for those type of runners (more speed type).

I think OTC was bad for Aman because he was already training at an intense and high level (maybe even higher than OTC), just at worse facilities, etc. Plus I'm sure the OTC guys waste a lot of time together drinking a craft beer or two, and having cappuccinos with lots of milk, play video games, taking pictures of each others' calves, etc. It basically got Aman too soft because OTC guys are soft.

There have been a few threads out this week saying Nijel Amos will be trianing in the US this year. We can confirm that the messageboard rumors are indeed once again fact. RunBlugRun caught up with him in Kenya and now has a story out indicating that Amos will train under the OTC's Mark Rowland.

RBR wrote:

He will be going for a short Christmas break in December, but plans to come back to Kenya for more training in January to February before shifting his training base to Oregon where he will train under coach Mark Rowland. For the last five years, he has been training in South Africa under a different coach. According to him, his past coach has been great, but he just needs to make some changes and experience some new adventures in his training.

Hearing that Nigel Amos is moving to OTC, probably because it's gone so well, thus far, for Mohammed Aman. Nigel Amos is probably going to go home devestated in 3-5 years time.At least it might make Brooke Beasts pipe down (see social media) about their 4x800 squad - if I'm not mistaken this would make 1:42/42/43/44 (Amos, Aman, Osagie, Jock). LRC Update: There have been a few threads out this week saying Nijel Amos will be trianing in the US this year. We have merged them into this one thread and we can confirm that the messageboard rumors are indeed once again fact. RunBlugRun caught up with Amos in Kenya and now has a story out indicating that Amos will train under the OTC's Mark Rowland.

RBR wrote:

He will be going for a short Christmas break in December, but plans to come back to Kenya for more training in January to February before shifting his training base to Oregon where he will train under coach Mark Rowland. For the last five years, he has been training in South Africa under a different coach. According to him, his past coach has been great, but he just needs to make some changes and experience some new adventures in his training.

Bet you feel stupid now

Joshua wrote:

Bet you feel stupid now

I'm guessing you didn't watch the London final.

A coach can't run the race for you. I don't believe his London fade out had anything to do with fitness.

Amos will be ranked number 1 for the 800 this year, so you'd hardly say the move to OTC was a failure