Isn't Heather Burroughs a bigger player in this picture than most people are recognizing?
Isn't Heather Burroughs a bigger player in this picture than most people are recognizing?
ummmm.... Lukezic was with Benson his entire college and pro career until he went off the deep end....
How did he go off the deep end. Last I heard he was one of the first employees of airbnb and probably unimaginably wealthy.
That's the thanks you get for coaching someone to world champion. Who would be a coach
Is her college coach the one who was trying to run a miler into a distance runner?
Maybe Henner/Benson is leaving Air Force? Pretty good resume and it must be tough to be successful there.
interesting in relation to John Kellog's 'a great coach is worth one second per lap' rule of thumb
Simpson's 1500 PR under Wetmore: 3:59
Simpson's 1500 PR under Benson: 4:03
4 laps, 4 seconds.
The 5k doesn't quite stand up -
under wetmore: 15:05
under benson: 15:12
12 laps, 7 seconds.
where? wrote:
bangalangadanga wrote:I find it strange that she's going back to Wetmore, and I think this could potentially be Alan Webb Syndrome here. She left Wetmore in the first place because she had a meeting with him where they both came to the conclusion that he would not have enough time and resources to coach her. Odd that 3 years later, Wetmore all of a sudden has time for her.
Is there a reference to where Wetmore stated he would not have enough time? or is that just what you think happened?
i can't find the video on flotrack, but she did state that she had a meeting with wetmore and that they "mutually" decided that he would not have enough energy to coach her to become the best.
15:01 under Wetmore.
agip wrote:
interesting in relation to John Kellog's 'a great coach is worth one second per lap' rule of thumb
Simpson's 1500 PR under Wetmore: 3:59
Simpson's 1500 PR under Benson: 4:03
4 laps, 4 seconds.
The 5k doesn't quite stand up -
under wetmore: 15:05
under benson: 15:12
12 laps, 7 seconds.
jjjjjjj wrote:
My sense was that Henner (=Benson?) was more of a fan of the shorter, faster school of training and that this did not generally work very well in terms of long-term development (see Chris Lukezic, a 3:33 runner at 23 or so as someone training with Alan Webb, but who declined and left soon for the big prospects of airbnb), so that you might get some initial improvement from the speedwork while you still have the base from your old coach but when the base is gone, you no longer have anything to sharpen.
My sense is that you know nothing about Juli's coaching philosophy... well, actually, it's not a sense, it's firsthand knowledge.
Absolute joke. This group is hanging on by mere threads and talk of something actually happening...stand-up comedy at it's best.
Smoke, not fire.