NAU and Mike Smith Training

To everyone looking for the training logs, it's in here as "NAU 2017/18"

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cd3aeGJqq-JQfHhrcCRFRUtjvbvsS0N2?usp=sharing

Any chance you still have this document floating around? If you do would you mind sharing with slenningn@gmail.com? Thanks

Monster Slayer wrote:

The piece thats hard to capture is how important the Monday's and Thursday's are. Just tons and tons of drills and yoga type stuff. And those damn treadmill hills.

What do these days look like? What drills do they do? What are they doing for the strides and treadmill hills? What si the duration, rest, incline, etc?

Is Rupp doing basically the same training, just at increased volume?

efgfrhrjt wrote:

Monster Slayer wrote:

The piece thats hard to capture is how important the Monday's and Thursday's are. Just tons and tons of drills and yoga type stuff. And those damn treadmill hills.

What do these days look like? What drills do they do? What are they doing for the strides and treadmill hills? What is the duration, rest, incline, etc?

Bump

Does anyone know if they take a break between XC and Track season? Maybe some days off or just easy mileage?

No break after NCAA's they run BU in December then take a break. There is a week or two off with a few short runs every 2-3 days.

Hey there Han Solo, would you mind emailing me the documents if they’re still available. Thank you!

The document is posted in the thread. Plus, Smith’s training has change dramatically since this was originally posted.

What does Smith's training look like now?

Training looks nothing like this

Then provide contrary examples. Otherwise you are lame, annoying, cringe, etc etc

mind sharing the spreadsheet?

Anyone looking for the training, it is posted in the thread.

As another poster noted, the training looks different now than it did in 2017-2020.

Usually a double threshold workout every other week, and a lot of very hard workouts at race pace and faster with substantial rest.

Otherwise a lot looks fairly similar. Long tempo runs, hill/treadmill sprints, and high volume of short reps, though doesn’t seem as often as they used to. I don’t really follow it much anymore.

My observation is that the changes in training have substantially improved their track performances beyond just cross country success.

Han Solo, if you were taking over a college cross country program that was god awful with no culture established, low mileage, and far from impressive times.

What specific concepts of workouts from these trainings would you implement in your first year as coach?

-Hatman

Completely off topic from this thread but I’ll bite and bring it back around.
If your program is god awful and has no culture, that’s where you start. Smith provides good training. It works. But psychologically, he’s on another level. You can’t quantify it. That’s where Smith would start and so should you.