Zach has hung with Futsum and Lucas before. Today he made a big mistake that he paid for in the race If he had waited to do that until the second time around things would have been different.
Dave Smith will be a great teacher/trainer for Zach and he will have great success again. Having all those top runners with experience to train with and a coach to mentor him will be the perfect environment.
Zach is a great guy and very humble also. The midwest guys are tight and all great runners that respect each other. - Zach is friends with all of them and yes he needed a race strategy - that was missing today which can be remedied in the future.