Obviously I'm not taking anything away from Mines but their domination was helped by Adams being absent. I'm sure Mines would prefer to have Adams in that race to beat them outright as well.
Have you seen their training/volume? NONE of these kids run post-college.
Please elaborate as to why their training causes them not to run after college.
They get engineering degrees. Living in one's parents' basement while struggling for shoe money for a career that lasts half a dozen years might be a fine lot in life for NAU grads, but when you can earn multiple times as much per year as an engineer over a 40-year career, you're going to take that path. It's great that most pursue running as an amateur sport (which is derived from the latin meaning "for the love").
Their top guy Dillon Powell maxed at 100mpw and was closer to 80 in season. Why would this stop him from running after graduation?
Because they can earn over $100,000 after school in the nearby booming Denver economy. An engineering degree from MINES translates well.
That is better than distance running.
I totally agree that the 6 figures is nice, but I was purely responding to the point of someone saying that their TRAINING made them unable to run post college. I get that they have better options.
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