She was less than a second behind the Africans and had the lead till the last 100. In the 3k, that is VERY rare nowadays. Usually the Africans are ahead by 30 seconds. Lets hope she can keep improving.
She was less than a second behind the Africans and had the lead till the last 100. In the 3k, that is VERY rare nowadays. Usually the Africans are ahead by 30 seconds. Lets hope she can keep improving.
her coach is a guy called mick woods who coaches both at emelia's club, aldershot farnham & district ac, and at st. marys university college, in twickenham, london. i think the structure of session days differ between aldershot and twickenham (ie. the aldershot group i think session on a sunday, while the twickenham group session on a saturday), but the content of training for each group is the same.
for example, a sample two weeks in march/april, between the end of the xc season and start of track season would be;
monday: am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minutes
tuesday: am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minute w/u, then grass session of: 5 minutes, 3 min recovery, 5 x 3 mins, 1 min recovery, 90 seconds, 3 min recovery, 5 minutes, 4-8 x 30 seconds with 1 min recovery, 20 minute w/d
wednesday: am. 60 minutes pm. 20 minutes
thursday: am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minute w/u, then track session of: 1000m in 2.50-3.00, 3 minute recovery, 10 x 400m with 200m recovery (60-62 for males), 4 x 200m in 26-28 with 200m recovery, 4-8 x 200m "lactic strides" at 3k pace, 20 minute w/d
friday: rest or am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minutes
saturday: am. 20 minute w/u, then grass session of: 10 minutes, 3 minute recovery, 7 1/2 minutes, 3 minute recovery, 3 x 5 minutes with 2 minute recovery, 4-8 x 30 seconds with 1 min recovery, 20 minute w/d pm. 20 minutes
sunday: am. 90 minutes (at a very decent pace, often getting down to 5.30 pace)
monday: am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minutes
tuesday: am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minute w/u, then track session of: 2000m in 6.10-6.15, 5 minute recovery, 5 x 600m (1.30-1.39 for males), 1 min recovery, 200m (28-30), 1 min recovery, 4 x 200m in 26-28 with 200m recovery, 4-8 x 200m "lactic strides" at 3k pace, 20 minute w/d
wednesday: am. 60 minutes pm. 20 minutes
thursday: am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minute w/u, then track session of: 8 x 300m in (for a male) 46-46-46-46-44-44-39-39 with 45 seconds-2 mins recovery, 20 minute w/d
friday: rest or am. 40 minutes pm. 20 minutes
saturday: am. 20 minute w/u, then grass session of: 10 minutes, 3 minute recovery, 7 1/2 minutes, 3 minute recovery, 3 x 5 minutes with 2 minute recovery, 4-8 x 30 seconds with 1 min recovery, 20 minute w/d pm. 20 minutes
sunday: am. 90 minutes
power of 10 profiles:
emelia-
http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=17124
woods-
http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=114918
Why not NOT expose her to an NCAA system that hasn't consistently produced successful distance runners? Yes, I know there are exceptions, but Rupp, German, and others, all would've been better served just forgoing the X-C/indoor/outdoor/summer season grind forced upon NCAA runners and immdiately turned pro after high school. Like collegiate tennis and often collegiate baseball, runners would be better served getting on with their professional careers soon as possible.
Truly elite prep runners should skip running in college. It took me awhile to come to this conclusion, but the Kenyan and Ethiopian pipeline isn't drying up soon and their elites aren't going to Oregon, Arkansas, etc.
Heard she started working with the strength coach at St Mary's who sorted out all the other top British distance runners. Apparently he's the go to guy for keeping high mileage athletes injury free which is why Woods can give them so much volume.
ummm... ever heard of Jordan Hasay?
Mick is renowned for ruining his athletes. Charlotte Purdue has had multiple knee operations and also Emma Pallant. Mick Woods will not develop good senior athletes he will get instant success but they cannot win races on the Senior level on the track.
emelia is staying in the uk for university but her brother josh is heading to university of portland. he's also an international athlete and even slightly better than emelia on his day. known for having 'jungle fever'.
badName wrote:
Mick is renowned for ruining his athletes. Charlotte Purdue has had multiple knee operations and also Emma Pallant. Mick Woods will not develop good senior athletes he will get instant success but they cannot win races on the Senior level on the track.
Really?! Show me a distance coach who's athlete's haven't been injured. It's amusing how people are so quick to slam Mick's training and comment on him injuring athletes. You name two girls injured out of how many that he coaches? I guess Twell breaking her ankle in a cross country race was his fault too?! And one other thing... how do you get instant success in endurance events?
I'd snap her pelvis like she was Fionnulla
it's about education wrote:
Why not expose other cultures to our educational system, and just as importantly, expose our culture to other cultures?
We have a culture? Since when?
I'm travelling to America to run in the NCAA's next year and pollute it with my English blood..WHEEEEYYYY!!!!
Mick coaches tonnes of athletes, check his power of 10, there is bound to be an athlete out of all of these who could become injured. Athletes getting injured has nothing to do with the coach, which is incredibly obvious. If an athlete becomes injured then that's their own lookout.
Maybe they need to slow there runs down abit, use better footwear, back off the intensity a little. Stretch more? Eat more? Just to name a few injury prevention techniques.
Mick is a very smart man, the god of endurance, he knows the way. He will produce many champions. Whether people slate him or big him up, it won't make a difference when he gets hungry, smart and talented athletes approach him. If the athletes want it, they will get it training under woodsy.
So as he has been using the same system for decades there must now be a long line of senior champions already, not just current great juniors
-who are these senior champions?
She ran 8:59.05 PB at Watford last night.
Besides Rupp and a few choice others, going PRO immediately would have hurt them more simply because you took the structure away from them.
At least 50% of runners coming out of high school are somewhere between wasted potential,poorly coached, injured or need some sort of structure to keep their improvement curve steady.
Even for the Elite of the Elite, imagine the World Records if Bekele/Geb had training partners only a few seconds behind them in the WR.
African's of distance running run to provide a better life for themselves. American's of distance running have so many other options that also provide a comfortable living.
Motivation and structure are highly important and unfortunately their aren't a whole lot of coaches trying on athletes for free.
Could you imagine a coach of schumacher,Hudson,Salazaar,Daniels,Lyndrid or *name your top level pro coach here*, starting coaching groups of 15-20 athletes directly for free, outside of colleges and pro runners?
Could you imagine if someone like Simmons or Malmo got the funding to support large running groups for a full season?
Could you imagine if any of the previously named coaches coached 8-12 hours a day, multiple groups of runners throughout the day?
Personalization may be important, but structure and grouping of similar running abilities would increase the groups ability far more and with the large number of groups with the large range of abilities it would be very easy to mix and match abilities to accommodate the many levels of progression you'd come across.
Unfortunately, there is no farm system that could simulate what happens in the poor countries where you have to run to school everyday, where you have to run to survive, where you have to learn how to be better than everyone else to get anywhere in life.
In America, running is a bottom feeder, because being semi-elite in any other major sport is still more money than most elite marathoners.
I can make over 100K a year riding the bench for a pro team, or I can make that same 100k, struggling and fighting my own body and everyone else on the roads and pray I'm good enough for long enough to grab a sponsorship that can drop me at anytime.
American culture lacks the motivations everyone else gets from running, when you fail at something in America, there is always a low-education level job that pays way above minimum wage because of the danger level.
If I contracted some hard to rehab or contend with running injury/condition I could just as easily give up running and wander out to a Oil company in the Midwest and double or even triple my income.
There are many ways to bring back a plentiful base of running talent in America, but someone is going to have to make huge sacrifices to get others to make smaller ones.