Ole Miss training

I heard they go for runs almost every day!

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I know for a fact they never allow dairy to enter their bodies. May be the secret right there

I believe that the way they do it is allow other coaches to recruit and develop the athletes and then get them into an Ole Miss jersey and let them race.

I am a high school junior from Teas and have idolized Trevor Gilley, Craig Nowak, and Craig Lutz for years. I currently workout like I can run 4:0x in the mile and 1:49 but my PR is 4:38 and 2:03. Any tips on how to bring that down and train like the Ole Miss guys?

It's no surprise to me that the Ole Miss program is having such success. When Trevor Gilley committed to Ole Miss you could tell it was the start of something special. Having a South-lake Carroll Dragon to train with and look up to on a day to day basis IS the reason why these kids are doing so well. He not only built his program up from nothing, but he continues to make it better and better.

HopelessWonderer wrote:

I am a high school junior from Teas and have idolized Trevor Gilley, Craig Nowak, and Craig Lutz for years. I currently workout like I can run 4:0x in the mile and 1:49 but my PR is 4:38 and 2:03. Any tips on how to bring that down and train like the Ole Miss guys?

Stop working out like a 4:0x and 1:49 guy....

First of all, the name of the game is to have athletes run fast and ultimately to win. As a matter of fact, I have not seen a slap to the face this big since Saturday's SEC 5k.

Further, I did not see any awards given to any coaches for "the biggest time drop from high school to college."

If you recruit a 4:22 kid and he runs 4:05 and gets 9th at SEC's, that's ZERO points. If you get a transfer from another school and he wins the SEC championships without running any faster than before, that's 10 points. So congrats on your no one gives a shit award for development. To be brutally honest, the results from this Saturday make it appear that Coach Vanhoy, Harter, and Bucknam are the only ones in this conference that are working in a non volunteer capacity.

Finally, look a little bit closer at Engels and Erb if you want to see development. These guys have sky rocketed at Ole Miss and may be inking some contracts in a few months.

easy wrote:

HopelessWonderer wrote:

I am a high school junior from Teas and have idolized Trevor Gilley, Craig Nowak, and Craig Lutz for years. I currently workout like I can run 4:0x in the mile and 1:49 but my PR is 4:38 and 2:03. Any tips on how to bring that down and train like the Ole Miss guys?

Stop working out like a 4:0x and 1:49 guy....

I hate when people get on LRC and try to talk a kid down from training hard. This kid is working hard day in, and day out it sounds like. Being from Texas I'm sure he is doing Paavo training, just as Gilley and the others did, and I am sure he will see huge improvements VERY soon if he just keeps his nose to the grindstone. Just because you never ran 4:0x doesn't mean you should try and stop others from doing it SMH

It started with the recruiting of the two best kids in TX that year, GIlley and Domanic.

It's interesting looking at that years class of 2013 TX kids and where they are and what they've done.

You had:

Robert Domanic- 4:07/8:57-state champ in 32/16/XC- Ole Miss- 4:00/7:54/13:54

Trevor Gilley- 4:07/8:56- 2nd in 1600m- Ole Miss- 4:00/14:03

Joe Sansone- 9:03- 3rd in 3200m- North Carolina- 8:18/14:24

RJ Ammons- 9:03- 3rd in 3200m- Harvard- quit

Austin Wells- 4:16/9:07- 4th in 3200m- Texas A&M- 4:05/14:05

Brian Barraza- 4:13/9:05- 5th in 3200m- Houston- 3:58/7:53/13:52

Brigham Hedges- 4:10- 4th in the 1600m- Oklahoma State- 4:06 mile

Cameron Villareal- 4:09- 3rd in 1600m- Texas A&M- 4:00/8:03

I'm not sure what it all means, but it's neat to see a phenomenal class of HS athletes and look at where they are a few years later.

Only one "flop" and he's at Harvard so who cares. A few small improvements, and one of the slowest of the group is now the fastest in each event. The good thing is almost all of these guys reached some sort of relevance.

Everyone runs around 107 miles per week and does 10 x 200 in 27 3x per week.

Good luck.

I would like to konw why the good runners now at Ole Miss initially decided to attend Ole Miss. Ole Miss was not that good of a program 5 years ago. Gilley and Domanic and Gutierrez are from Texas, and it seems interesting that they all went to Ole Miss. It looks like pretty much all their distance runners on their roster today are not from Mississippi. Maybe an investigation should be conducted.

Tex Jones wrote:

I would like to konw why the good runners now at Ole Miss initially decided to attend Ole Miss. Ole Miss was not that good of a program 5 years ago. Gilley and Domanic and Gutierrez are from Texas, and it seems interesting that they all went to Ole Miss. It looks like pretty much all their distance runners on their roster today are not from Mississippi. Maybe an investigation should be conducted.

I am curious about that, too. You never heard of Ole Miss as a distance power before this, no?

And one kid transferred from Ole Miss to Harvard? Weird jump.

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Tex Jones wrote:

I would like to konw why the good runners now at Ole Miss initially decided to attend Ole Miss. Ole Miss was not that good of a program 5 years ago. Gilley and Domanic and Gutierrez are from Texas, and it seems interesting that they all went to Ole Miss. It looks like pretty much all their distance runners on their roster today are not from Mississippi. Maybe an investigation should be conducted.

When the fastest Mississippi runner can't break 16:00 in XC except on a short course, is it any wonder their team doesn't have any Mississippians on it. Maybe the key to Vanhoy success is NOT recruiting Mississippians.

Ole Miss doesn't exactly have the cleanest history re. athlete recruitment. I am inclined to believe the good distance runners on their roster could have gotten scholarships elesehwere.

That does NOT explain why so many good distance runners not from Mississippi all chose to go to Ole Miss. Why go THERE? That wasn't a particularly good program 5 years ago before they started reeling in these outstanding runners.

Tex Jones wrote:

That does NOT explain why so many good distance runners not from Mississippi all chose to go to Ole Miss. Why go THERE? That wasn't a particularly good program 5 years ago before they started reeling in these outstanding runners.

Our womenfolk are bodacious, and yours ain't.

How many of those Ole Miss women have more than half their teeth by the time they are 40?