Some interesting insights from the Trials as husband Alistair Cragg talks about yelling to Amy to stop waiting for Shalane Flanagan and go.
A lot of uncoordinated distance runners can't do a lay-up, but Schumacher says Jager "can do a lay-up beautifully."
Schumacher: "In the first couple months Shalane contacted us. I was like, ummmm. ... But it worked out well.
Apparently it's less volume than she did with Jerry Schumacher, but more than with Alberto Salazar.
"It will be good to go through the routine of competing and do all the things to get ready for a race. It will take the place of a workout,"
US Champs will end 6-days before Worlds begin. Alberto Salazar, Jerry Schumacher, Galen Rupp and Mary Cain all made positive statements about the announcement. Cain: "I can go to school that week. My teachers won't hate me."
*USATF Release
The report doesn't take a side in whether there should have been DQs or not, but does finally acknowledge that the DQ of Andrew Bumbalough was a case of mistaken identity. The report also makes a number of suggestions for rule changes to help with the vague wording and make for a more clear process for the jury of appeals and for correcting mistakes later on. It even addresses the accusations of Nike's/Alberto Salazar's influence and calls for a more private setting for the jury of appeals to work.
Link is to an interview with Nike's Chris Cook, who leads the Bowerman Track Club about the inclusion of Team Schumacher into the rebranding of the already existing Bowerman Athletics Club.
She says it's been a smooth transition and talks about training with Jenny Simpson, Emma Coburn and Shalaya Kipp. Goucher says she gets a minute head start for long runs so she can warm up as the group hits it hard from the start.
"After Solinsky's win (over Rupp in the 10k), relations between the coaches were so tense that Nike gave Schumaker his own budget, and his group split off from the Oregon Project. In a September 2011 email by Salazar to two of his runners, Salazar described Schumacher and his assistant as "our mortal enemies."
*MB: WSJ- Salazar says Schumacher is 'mortal enemy.'"
"USATF remains a 19th century type organization trying to govern in a 21st century sporting world." Reavis speaks on Alberto Salazar, Nike and the Grunewald DQ, saying if the roles were reversed, he doubts Jordan Hasay would have been DQed.
Three time Olympian Lee Troop saw the whole thing unfold and says Salazar was way out of line, "To be perfectly honest, it was just bad for the sport, the way the whole thing was conducted. It looked poor; it was bad; I think a lot of people are going to be walking away with a really bad taste in their mouth. It's just not right on so many levels."
Which Harry Potter character is the Oregon Project or Jerry Schumacher group? How about Oiselle and the OTC? LetsRun.com gets two shout-outs as well.
Goucher: "I have felt a calling to go back to Boulder. I feel almost giddy with excitement when I think about training with Mark and Heather [Burroughs]. I have a lot of big goals left and I feel like they are the ones to help me achieve them. Although I am saddened to leave a place I love, I know the right decision is to move back to Boulder."
Derrick talks about what a relief it was to make the team for Moscow, the Schumacher Vs Oregon Project rivalry, how as a Stanford alum, hates the University of Oregon and Ryan Hall's current injury woes.
Derrick on making the team in the 10K at the Trials: "I looked around — looked at the big screen with a 'K' to go — and I saw we had like 40 meters all of a sudden, and that’s the first I knew that it wasn’t five guys in a group. It was just a huge relief at that point. I probably didn’t finish as well as I could have — Jerry [Schumacher] got on me for that: 'You can’t just be happy just to make the team.' I was like, 'Just this once, can I just be happy to make the team?'"