Morgan McDonald injured again

The hardness of the Niwot track can't be helping with all the injuries, train somewhere else.

I believe that he is listed for Sound Running 5k on Saturday?

There are new women’s injuries too. And if course there’s Monson. Who is pretty much done with where she used to be. She’ll never come back to that level

Big Shelby fan here but Monson was about to dethrone her in my fandom if she kept competing with the Africans. Still rooting on her

I think Ritz's group goes too much for the spectacular workouts (factoring in the altitude) and needs to leave more on the table and trust more that if you hold back a bit, the body will recover stronger and keep making you faster. With a talented but fragile runner like Morgan (or Ritz himself) this really applies. The only guy to really be able to handle it for more than a year or two is Yared Nuguse, so far.

Yeah I know this has already been talked about but I don't think it should be understated how misleading that part of the take really is. At this point most people know Morgan was far more developed training-wise than Fisher during their final year in the NCAA. The main issue now is that Morgan is injury prone and Fisher has just always had the higher ceiling. Say what you will about Morgan's current training situation as that seems to be the main issue, but move on from that 'he should be beating Grant because of their college careers' take.

I applaud Morgan for posting and talking about his injuries. Unlike most we never hear anything from them.

Josh kerr eats 2300 calories a day according to youtube which is extreme underfueling. Morgs has like 1000 just around a workout, he's also not as lean as a lot of the top guys, so my guess is its a training/mechanics thing.

What shoes are crappy?

On shoes are pretty solid.

Salazar protege. Training works great if you survive. But far too many do not.

2300 calories!?! That's major yikes. Agree that Morgan likely doesn't take the best care of himself but I think his fueling is likely ok, comparatively, but perhaps still underfueling (that's usually the #1 cause of a femoral neck fx). It's pretty wild how consistently injured this whole team is...not great.

I don’t think it’s a mechanics thing, weak glutes can contribute as well as suddenly increasing impact training, but there is always some other component (mainly nutrition, sometimes it’s a leg length discrepancy). Femoral neck stress fractures are super rare. Morgan has been hurt a ton and gained weight when he’s not training, my guess is he went through periods of not fueling enough because of that, add the sudden upping of mileage and bam.
Kerr eating 2300 calories seems insane but let’s be honest the man is humongous for a distance runner. He prob has strong bones from having all that weight through them, and is probably getting enough calcium vitamin d and things while reducing calories, making sure to get enough protein and eat at specific times.

With someone so obviously talented and so obviously injury prone I would think the solution would be just getting him to the starting line healthy. Even though he's a pro it seems he cannot tolerate the heavy workloads required of a pro. Go back to lighter training, perhaps similar to his stellar college years. How would that sit with his sponsors? I don't no but racing something is surely better than racing nothing. And in hindsight, the half marathon, well, probably wasn't the best idea. I wish him well.

Morgan was . . . but was removed from the entry list today (5/22).

Also note: Geordie has switched from the Steeple to the 5000, essentially taking Morgan's place on the starting line next to OAC teammates Ky & Dillon. Might be the pacer to help them reach their 13:01 Tokyo Q.

Dathan has always walked a tightrope. Push that close to the edge and some guys won’t make it. But those who survive will be mega fit.

He's not as lean because he drinks.