All of this to get smoked by an 18 year old who came completely out of nowhere coached by Claudio Berardelli, a guy who should probably have a lifetime ban from the sport, who had a blood testing machine in his camp, has been arrested for administering EPO, and has had at least 6 of his athletes banned for doping.
His coach is so bad that even Frederico Rosa of all people stopped working with him because "he didn't have the issue under control."
So yeah, all this to get smoked by somebody who is most likely a total sham, due to an illogical anti-doping regime that targets athletes instead of the coaches and agents who are really behind it.
Koech isn’t 18. lol Only a woke moron would believe that. He’s just a guy Berardelli decided to go with because he reaponded much better than others to Berardelli’s doping regimen. That said, Kween Keer must have been PO’d.
I don't think it's that crazy. This is the summary:
Thursday morning: arrive in London, get settled in
Thursday afternoon: treatment, 3-4 mile easy run followed by practicing some leg turnover
Friday morning: relax
Friday early afternoon: photo opp, press conference, and media engagement
Friday mid-afternoon: treatment, 30-min run, plyometrics, then a 90-second tempo at 4:40 pace, 300m in 46.6, 200m in 23.9, and 5/7/9 step starts
Friday evening: discussion of race tactics with his coach
Saturday morning: treatment, shakeout/gym with some very light exercises
Early afternoon: pre-race fueling, coffee, and bicarb
Travel to track and warmup for the race
Seems reasonable to me.
It's fascinating to see the 48-hour pre-race routine of one of the best 1500m runners in the world. I also appreciated them showing his detailed discussion of race tactics with his coach, especially given that Kerr is known to be a savvy racer.
It is interesting. In one of the videos before he gives Cole Hocker unsolicited (kinda) advice and he’s like hire all of these people so you can just run. But as it stands the two operate completely differently.
On the road, Kerr brings:
-travel manager
-dietitian
-assistant coach
-content guy
Cole has a content guy only it seems. He eats the meet-provided food, and presumably texts/chats with Ben Thomas. Obviously his and Kerr’s agent Ray Flynn is at many of these meets. But it’s mostly just him and then Cooper if he’s in the same meet.
It is interesting. In one of the videos before he gives Cole Hocker unsolicited (kinda) advice and he’s like hire all of these people so you can just run. But as it stands the two operate completely differently.
On the road, Kerr brings:
-travel manager
-dietitian
-assistant coach
-content guy
Cole has a content guy only it seems. He eats the meet-provided food, and presumably texts/chats with Ben Thomas. Obviously his and Kerr’s agent Ray Flynn is at many of these meets. But it’s mostly just him and then Cooper if he’s in the same meet.
I don't think it's that crazy. This is the summary:
Thursday morning: arrive in London, get settled in
Thursday afternoon: treatment, 3-4 mile easy run followed by practicing some leg turnover
Friday morning: relax
Friday early afternoon: photo opp, press conference, and media engagement
Friday mid-afternoon: treatment, 30-min run, plyometrics, then a 90-second tempo at 4:40 pace, 300m in 46.6, 200m in 23.9, and 5/7/9 step starts
Friday evening: discussion of race tactics with his coach
Saturday morning: treatment, shakeout/gym with some very light exercises
Early afternoon: pre-race fueling, coffee, and bicarb
Travel to track and warmup for the race
Seems reasonable to me.
It's fascinating to see the 48-hour pre-race routine of one of the best 1500m runners in the world. I also appreciated them showing his detailed discussion of race tactics with his coach, especially given that Kerr is known to be a savvy racer.
Thx for summary. I've seen guys acting more needy/stressed out and with a more ritualistic OCD prep for the local Turkey Trot 5k podium attempt.
So yeah, i agree, reasonable leadup for a WC gold medalist, and pretty chill attitude overall. I liked how he took time/interest to see a non-elite break 60 for 400m, joking about a 600m race and back slapping Arop. I think he genuinely likes to share knowledge, could see him being a coach post career. Might draw some more T&F fans if him and Jingy become co-commentators for future events, blindfolds optional.
I don't think it's that crazy. This is the summary:
Thursday morning: arrive in London, get settled in
Thursday afternoon: treatment, 3-4 mile easy run followed by practicing some leg turnover
Friday morning: relax
Friday early afternoon: photo opp, press conference, and media engagement
Friday mid-afternoon: treatment, 30-min run, plyometrics, then a 90-second tempo at 4:40 pace, 300m in 46.6, 200m in 23.9, and 5/7/9 step starts
Friday evening: discussion of race tactics with his coach
Saturday morning: treatment, shakeout/gym with some very light exercises
Early afternoon: pre-race fueling, coffee, and bicarb
Travel to track and warmup for the race
Seems reasonable to me.
It's fascinating to see the 48-hour pre-race routine of one of the best 1500m runners in the world. I also appreciated them showing his detailed discussion of race tactics with his coach, especially given that Kerr is known to be a savvy racer.
It is interesting. In one of the videos before he gives Cole Hocker unsolicited (kinda) advice and he’s like hire all of these people so you can just run. But as it stands the two operate completely differently.
On the road, Kerr brings:
-travel manager
-dietitian
-assistant coach
-content guy
Cole has a content guy only it seems. He eats the meet-provided food, and presumably texts/chats with Ben Thomas. Obviously his and Kerr’s agent Ray Flynn is at many of these meets. But it’s mostly just him and then Cooper if he’s in the same meet.
i get that you want to limit what you're thinking about beyond racing. from vids im seeing, the assistant coach might as well be a personal assistant, who also happens to have some limited track knowledge. Could probably hire one competent human being who could fulfill the role of travel manager, dietician and asst. coach. What the heck is the dietician doing outside of the 10 minutes that he/she is mixing/flipping pancakes?
Until just recently Kerr's dietician was the female Nicole who now is his "manager/administrator". She could easily do both roles and then Kerr could also have the "assistant" coach dude run errands for him or something since the guys is clueless about coaching anything. Kerr wants a big entourage so it makes him feel important.
It's important to always be prepared for eventualities. Me I always put two glasses on the nightstand before I go to bed; one with water in case I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night, and one empty in case I wake up not thirsty. Win-Win!
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Loads of pro athletes have very extreme routines. If you observe athletes before the start of races, you can see them go through all sorts of strange routines. I remember people used to rip on Rafa Nadal for his pre-service routine, which seemed to go on forever. What Kerr shows in the video is pretty tame in the realm of pro sports
Okay, but can we address the actual odd things here:
Coffee three hours before? The science is pretty clear on caffeine being taken 60-90 minutes before a race. And one coffee is only about a third of what you should take
The 200 in 23.9 the day before: seems unnecessarily hard? I can't imagine Josh can run much faster than 22.8-23.0 all out
Obviously it's working for him. But there seems to be actual science that says both those things are a bit off being optimal
I sort of get this. Josh is not alone. I used to wake up, put on shorts, TShirt, shoes and be running in 15 minutes. Now I wake up, mess around with coffee, sunscreen, running kit, watch, cat food... takes me 40 minutes to start the run.
