wonder if Rachel Mac helped him with this
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T3 wrote:
TME has to be done for then. Is his mom still coaching him?
Can Asics sell the TME great now with the Hammer and Axe Logo or do Adidas own that?
Could Adidas keep selling it and Give Tom Schwartz some cash if they wanted?
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stated wrote:
How many of his goals for 2025-2029 will he achieve?
1) Sub 13 5k
2) Sub 27 10k
3) World XC team
4) Qualify for LA olympics
5) Be a great dad
Can he seek citizenship in a random (likely European) country?
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themildrunmaster wrote:
I honestly think Drew could benefit massively from finding a different coach. Time and time again, we see athletes who see a major breakthrough just by using a different method. Even though Tinman Schwartz isn’t his coach, Mother Hunter’s style is apparently not too dissimilar. I think there’s a massive upside to trying something new. 10 years effectively in one system without any significant results is more than enough time.
Hmmm Mother Hunter and the Tin Man, are these nursery rhyme characters?
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Huge move for Drew and he is primed for a major breakthrough in the coming years. He's putting in all the extra work and as his Trials performance showed he is going to compete with the big boys now. Also enjoy that he didn't put his life on hold to play track like most of the infantilized wimps in running these days. Big Daddy Hunter has purpose.
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Mediocre talent
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DrewsBestFriend wrote:
Huge move for Drew and he is primed for a major breakthrough in the coming years. He's putting in all the extra work and as his Trials performance showed he is going to compete with the big boys now. Also enjoy that he didn't put his life on hold to play track like most of the infantilized wimps in running these days. Big Daddy Hunter has purpose.
Drew as a dad is the completion of his character growth character arc from the early, tinmob frat boy, Parsons era Drew. Hard not to root for Big Daddy Drew
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darkcloud wrote:
Waking up wrote:
Hopefully your grandma buys a lot of shoes.
As Capriotti once told me, “I don’t give a sh-t about selling shoes, I want medals” which means that every other company wanted to take something away from Nike so they have the same mentality. Meanwhile, this mentality opened the door for Brooks and Hoka to become dominant in the much larger road market.
99% of the runner's in any road race know or care who wins, let alone what brand of shoes they are wearing. hoka's biggest selling model, far and away, is the clifton. and runners are not the people buying these.
Hi Will!
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ChubbTummers wrote:
Waking up wrote:
Hopefully your grandma buys a lot of shoes.
As Capriotti once told me, “I don’t give a sh-t about selling shoes, I want medals” which means that every other company wanted to take something away from Nike so they have the same mentality. Meanwhile, this mentality opened the door for Brooks and Hoka to become dominant in the much larger road market.
I work in Data Analytics for an outdoor goods brand. FWIW, Nike has roughly a 40% market share in specialty running, while Brooks is ~10% and Hoka <5%. If you take every single running shoe brand, less Adidas, and combine them they still sell fewer specialty run shoes than Nike.
Some rough numbers:That's contrary to about every other Run Specialty report out there since like 2021, where in Brooks has been #1 for a while (and Nike not in the running), i.e.:
Nike sells a lot of running shoes (I wear them myself) but they've been out of Run Specialty for a few years now (to their detriment, by their own admission).
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papajs wrote:
Drew as a dad is the completion of his character growth character arc from the early, tinmob frat boy, Parsons era Drew. Hard not to root for Big Daddy Drew
Has he ever apologized to Tinman for what he did? I’ll never root for him unless he apologizes and makes things right.
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I'm glad he got away from Adidas. TME members should be free to seek out their own sponsor and have TME as a training group.
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He will hit #3 and I'd assume #5. He'll finish with PR's similar to Ben True. I hope he makes it in 2028 but have serious doubts.
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that dame has dated many heavy hitters. Hunter, Hoare, Teare to name a few.
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He signed a 10-year contract with adidas in 2016. Does this mean adidas released him 2 years early?
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doing the math wrote:
He signed a 10-year contract with adidas in 2016. Does this mean adidas released him 2 years early?
That's what I was thinking... maybe Adidas cut bait.
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This hasn't been true for a long time in run specialty. Nike is talking about RE-ENTERING run specialty stores, but haven't been a main part for a few years.
Hoka, Brooks, Asics, New Balance all carry more weight at least on storefront ends of run-specialty.
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doing the math wrote:
He signed a 10-year contract with adidas in 2016. Does this mean adidas released him 2 years early?
According to an interview Drew did as guest on the Letsrun.com podcast this past year, (5 months ago) his contract was NOT for 10 years. Like most contracts, its length was tied to the Olympics, and Drew's was a 9-year contract. Drew talked about this in the podcast, which can be found here: https://podcast.letsrun.com/episode/b63a71a0/olympic-track-medal-predictions-jakob-josh-1-week-away-ncaa-changed-forever-drew-hunter. So he knew the contract was coming to an end, and now it is clear that either he has chosen to cut ties with adidas or else they didn't offer him a new contract. Until I heard it in the podcast, I, too, thought the contract was for 10 years.
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it's got to be for scraps. he never did anything even close to the money he was getting with his last contract, adidas really took it in the back side with that one.
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Has he ever won a race?
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ny_city_vibes wrote:
Parsons will continue to train with him.
Which hardly makes any difference. With the foundation of TME washing away, one or both should move to UAC. If they truly have higher ambitions, having a truly world class coach based in town with no brand sponsorship strings attached should be seen as a golden gift from heaven.
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