Going back to your HS coach always works out well....
Not.
Going back to your HS coach always works out well....
Not.
Not HS coach, university coach, whom guided him to two NCAA titles.
Camstheman wrote:
Not HS coach, university coach, whom guided him to two NCAA titles.
You actually wanted "who" in this case, not whom. Whom is an object pronoun.
Imagine asking a question:
Who guided him?
not
Whom guided him?
Levins not with Nike as of early 2017, currently unsponsored: http://runningmagazine.ca/cam-levins-leaves-nike-oregon-project/
Typical basement dweller wrote:
Going back to your HS coach always works out well....
Not.
Ahuh...
Lets get used to the idea, like with college scholarships, that survival of the fittest is at work. A small number really excel, the rest either are up and down or totally bomb. Every coach can point to this as a general rule.
Levins runs way too many miles! Anything over 115 - 120 is just excessive for some 5 - 10 K guy. He ran double that. Its not working
He will silently fade away wrote:
it's pretty amazing how Galen Rupp has handled it all these years. Maybe being married with kids is enough distraction, but he can handle the pressure and keep performing and winning medals.
Yeah, the little late night rub from uncle Sal with the "Special" cream doesn't hurt either.....
NOP fan wrote:
Discuss...
You misspelled Discus.
trackislife12 wrote:
After watching his "Driven" documentary I have come to the conclusion that Cam is one of the stupidest human beings I have ever seen in my life. Seriously go watch his 1k workout where he starts out at 2:36 and ends in 3:10 and says it is okay because "its the effort that counts". Not to mention he did that in 35 degree weather in short shorts while his spikes that were tied too tight ripped his feet apart.
Judging by the way you write, you might not be far behind him. Irorny is beautiful.
Dr NO wrote:
Levins runs way too many miles! Anything over 115 - 120 is just excessive for some 5 - 10 K guy. He ran double that. Its not working
But it was working. Then he went to NOP.
cam shaft wrote:
Dr NO wrote:Levins runs way too many miles! Anything over 115 - 120 is just excessive for some 5 - 10 K guy. He ran double that. Its not working
But it was working. Then he went to NOP.
correlation =/= causation. I don't think Alberto or anybody at NOP is responsible for Cam's struggles. He actually did quite well there for a few years before it all came apart. Sustaining elite level performance over several years is very, very difficult for all but a few athletes. There are a lot of things that can go wrong.
He will silently fade away wrote:
it's so incredibly hard to be a successful professional runner.
remember the scene in Once a Runner before Cassidy races that fast mile and Denton notices he has the "mental part" and isn't going to collapse from the pressure before the race even starts? Yeah, that part is rare and equally important as talent. Clayton Murphy has it. Centro has it. Wheating does not have it. Webb didn't even really have it
if you have the talent you need the durability.
if you have talent and durability, you need the mental toughness to train hard, race under extreme pressure and anxiety.
on top of all that, you need to be able to find the calm and separation from it all in all of the hours that you aren't training. which is a lot of hours
you need to be obsessed but able to somehow detach from it at times.
or just play video games
it's pretty amazing how Galen Rupp has handled it all these years. Maybe being married with kids is enough distraction, but he can handle the pressure and keep performing and winning medals.
Having the brain and of a spud helps, going by your rundown of names above.
GCsp wrote:
correlation =/= causation. I don't think Alberto or anybody at NOP is responsible for Cam's struggles. He actually did quite well there for a few years before it all came apart. Sustaining elite level performance over several years is very, very difficult for all but a few athletes. There are a lot of things that can go wrong.
Training in a rigid program with grey-area dopers on thyroid supps, testosterone boosting, Aicar and peptide TB-500, when you don't use those things, is very, very hard.
AdvairAl wrote:
Is he still asthmatic? He started using a puffer after joining NZoP and since then it came out that captain al instructed athletes to cheat the test by running up and down the stairs.
I could run up and down stairs all day (or as long as my fitness would allow me) and I would not display asthmatic symptoms.
I understand the suspicions of NOP but some of these tales are just silly.