What is Colorado doing these days different than RWTB?

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I spoke with Wetmore about a recruit in 2012. I told him I liked the RWTB schedule so was a reason I would like my athlete to go there. He told me they don't run as many hard days in a week and the hards themselves were less likely to be killers.

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Guppy wrote:

FWIW, I remember reading an interview with Ian Dobson back when he was with Stanford, and he said the key to his and Ryan Hall's success that year (the year they went 1-2 at Outdoor NCAAs and made the US team) was that they had not done ANY interval work during indoor track and had simply focused on base and threshold work, using only their races as speed workouts. It is my opinion that most programs focus WAY too much on speed and fail to emphasize long term development and solid periodization.

Agreed. Note Cal does lots of speed work and consistently does the worst job with the best recruits.

But I'd love to see a breakdown of workouts CU does over the course of a year, just to get an idea of how they transition into vo2 workouts/other speed.

Well ditto , it can't be the marijuana neither, since cal is on equal footing their as well.

I'm sure their "easy" days would challenge even top high school runners. CU trains at altitude and they race over 10K. It takes a few years to build to the density of training CU performs. CU may have moderated their training from RWTB days, but whatever they are doing works well.