We don't fully understand the long-term effects of COVID-19, especially on athletes. It could be he jumped in too soon, I know I personally struggle with a return from illness.
We don't fully understand the long-term effects of COVID-19, especially on athletes. It could be he jumped in too soon, I know I personally struggle with a return from illness.
Sham 69 wrote:
It seems that he's now a shadow of his former self... He gets last place in every rep and even cuts the workout short. It's not that he isn't trying either. He's so gassed that he has to sit on the track so that he can catch his breath. At 11:09 you see a girl complete a 200 even faster than he did. Despite all of that, he describes the workout as, "a solid session" at 11:40. I think something may be wrong with Spencer...
https://youtu.be/QEX2I27ZPQE
You need to be some special kind of challenged or just clueless trolling as he is now doing the same workouts with Josh Kerr & all....
Frankly it sucks to be you pal...
Also, adding on to this, assuming every elite runner's goal is to be an olympian/world champ, or even qualify for those. I am sure Spencer would like to get there though.
Kinda like European soccer? Some clubs want to win the whole thing, others are just happy to be there?
Spencer is doing 'volume' workouts now. I've only checked in on the guy periodically the past year or so, but as far as I could see when he was in Boulder, he'd do a handful of fast 400s, or a quick 800 and a few 200s. Basically all sharpening stuff.
Now, as a Beast, they're doing the "real" workouts, which tend to work for nearly all runners, but not all.
He's in the wrong group to exploit his strengths, whatever those might be.
Wait there is a much bigger news story here. At 2:40 of the video you can see Henrik Ingebrigtsen training in the background. Is he just doing workouts with the Brooks Beasts? Is he getting away from Gjert and Nike? What's going on?
Allie's new youtube channel is best running channel right now, she is hilarious.
The problem I see is typical when athletes come to altitude to train for 6-7 weeks. They train too hard , too soon and too fast. You can see it in the workouts , anything longer than 400 meters and he is struggling. He has not adapted to the altitude and the paces are to fast. Also trying trying to combine maintain higher mileage each week. The only times he hits are the 200s-400s. Anyone can sprint at altitude. My prediction is he wears out by week 5, gets sick or injured. Plus why always try and run faster than the prescribed workout. just my 2 cents worth less than a penny.
all hail sham69 wrote:
Sham 69 goat troll. I guess this is one of the downsides of posting everything on YT. Running geniuses like sham69 get on lets run to critique every aspect of your build and training without doing real comparisons to your college splits, mileage, and altitude.
Also, Nia Akins is easily top 3-5 in the US at 800 and it looks like they train her at 400-800. It's not crazy that her splits are faster than Spencer's at the end of a workout.
They're not even doing the same workout XD.
you forget the goat troll is the430miler...
Lol guys...this is one of the best workouts Spencer has ever done. Hangs in there with true studs and looks composed the whole time.
He had a way better day than Henry. (No disrespect to Henry — who is obviously a stud).