Oregon Project a Success for Rupp!

Indeed, but don't forget Kyle Alcorn, an 8:44 performer as of June 8. Unless he is leaving? McGrath had an impressive performance at the Pre Classic. Looks like he is on a good upswing again..

Alcorn is transfering to Arizona State in the fall.

a friend of mine said he was practically living there as a 8th or 9th grader, doing his homework at the headquearters and such.

Nop was not even around when Rupp was in 8th grade. Your source sucks.

8lapper wrote:

Alcorn is transfering to Arizona State in the fall.

Huge, Huge mistake for Kyle. Of course he will be rejoining former Buchanan teammate Casey Burchill.

What a disturbing trend at Buchanan. All of their recent great (Cabada, Burchill and Alcorn) runners ran faster as Juniors than seniors and now have all transferred from colleges where they were doing well.

Cool wrote:What a disturbing trend at Buchanan. All of their recent great (Cabada, Burchill and Alcorn) runners ran faster as Juniors than seniors and now have all transferred from colleges where they were doing well.

This situation is not the same. His coach was pushed out. Big difference.

We had our first practice. I measured his natural stride length over 100m. It was approximately 1.56m on grass. If I train the individual to hold a stride frequency of 200 steps per minute at the 1.56m stride length for approximately 5 minutes that would equal a 5:07.7 1600m. So the goal is to gain a natural stride length gain of 10% in the next 4 weeks. That would equal 1.72m. If the individual holds 200 steps per minute at that stride length for approximately 5 minutes then his 1600m time would be a 4:39.1 1600m.

So what I've done is set up a grass 400m track where I've marked off with different flourescent spray paints every other 1.5m in lane one...1.55m in lane two...1.6m in lane 3...1.65m in lane 4...1.70m in lane 5...1.75m in lane 6...1.8m in lane 7...and 1.85m in lane 8...But I really didn't mark off the lane lines, just imaginary lanes for training purposes only. They will use this course and markings to do stride length workouts where the purpose is to ensure their left foot steps on the mark every time during the workout. As he gets stronger he will be able to advance to higher lanes for his stride length development. Tomorrow I am going to the local high school track to spray paint the same stride length markings in the middle of each lane on the track as I did on my grass course.

Now, the complementing workout is the stride frequency workout. Here the focus is centered on just ensuring your left foot strikes the ground to each stride frequency pulse. So if the pulse is at 100 beats per minute then their left foot will hit the ground each time the pulse beats. This will give the desired stride frequency of 200 strides per minute.

Once the athlete has mastered the stride frequency training of 200 strides per minute for five minutes and the 1.70m stride length training for 1600m we will then progressively mesh the two together with endurance training geared to do such that. Once he has obtained this goal then we will progressively train towards higher stride lengths and faster frequencies.

There is also a 4-year mileage plan in place progressing him from 30 miles a week to an average of 60 in four years in mid-season.

I learned all of this reading Letsrun message boards. Perhaps my athlete will break all American records from the 1500m to the 10K in his senior year of high school. Its all about progression and adaptation.

Anyway, what do you guys think?

Casey Burchill ran 28:54 this spring. What a failure.

You sir are a jackass.

I think that your local high school is gunna get pissed that your spray painting their track.

Well, I suppose that Alcorn will have to redshirt for a year, but that is good for him to transfer. Martin Smith is a good steeple coach and since Brett Holts is leaving, there is not much, if any, incentive for Alcorn to stay. Good luck to him at ASU.

P.S. I wonder if Kenny Klotz or Stephen Oliver of Central Catholic are planning on going to U of O (since Salazar is around coaching Rupp)? I guess Chapa decided on Washington..

I wonder why Chris Winter decided to stay, since steeple coach Smith is gone. Well, good luck to the Ducks, hope they get better.

HB wrote:

P.S. I wonder if Kenny Klotz or Stephen Oliver of Central Catholic are planning on going to U of O (since Salazar is around coaching Rupp)? I guess Chapa decided on Washington..

Stephen will be going to U of O in the fall; Kenny is currently a high school junior.