Working Stiff wrote:
Uh Oh Han! Looks like someone at NAU saw this post and thinks you're a creep!
I too follow a few pros/college athletes on Strava to get some insight and also log lots of the training for my archives... but posting it publicly may have been a bit much. Gotta act like a nature photographer; if they see you watching, they won't act naturally and may even run away!
Gotta love people that post things publicly, then get offended when people look at it.
Just put the doc back up for everyone to see, it's a good service for everyone.
Bump^^
This is the original, lucky to have it saved. It has both XC and track. I will not be taking it down.
Good stuff saviour
What drills do they do?
What does the weight routine look like?
What does a pre-meet day look like?
Not sure on the drills. It seems they would be pretty intensive though. I knew people from Adams State who did drills in the morning after a short run and they said it was pretty killer actually the way they did them. Would be interested to know the details for sure.
Somewhere, Matt Baxter made some comments on the weight lifting routine. Maybe it was the little book he wrote after last season. But it seemed tough. My best educated guess is something along the lines of Gambetta / Pfaff since they've had influence on Coach Smith.
Pre meet day for the guys looked like 6-7 miles or so if it was an important race.
7000 feet and moderate weather year round plus lots of miles is always going to go well if combined with the right talent.
How many other D1 and D2 schools have this sort of environmental resource wealth?
the google doc seems to be deleted, would you please either share a link again or email it to me at
Thanks!
Brennan Huff wrote:
Could I get a copy of that as well if possible???
It would be much appreciated and thanks for putting it together!!
Matt.provonche@gmail.com
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Anybody have a link to Matt Baxter’s diary from the 2017 XC season?
Dude read the whole freaking thread. It's already been reposted on this page.
The success of Mike Smiths training is in it's simplicity. He is not burning out anyone with that kind of training so the whole team progress. Environment this and that is not the reason, it's just plain simple good coaching which a lot here could learn from rather than some rocket science concoction training.
Poirot wrote:
The success of Mike Smiths training is in it's simplicity. He is not burning out anyone with that kind of training so the whole team progress. Environment this and that is not the reason, it's just plain simple good coaching which a lot here could learn from rather than some rocket science concoction training.
This. Consistent, high mileage. Easy recovery days. A lot of emphasis on Threshold training supplemented with some VO2 max work. Interesting to note that the VO2 reps during track season are rarely longer than 400m and during XC they do very little VO2 max work. A few 1ks tacked onto some threshold.
Could you email me that NAU training log? Hoodeddeath0@yahoo.com
Are you guys dense? The entire training log has been posted on a Google sheet on this page of thread. Literally just scroll up and you will see it. Christ.
Hfjdjdsj wrote:
Poirot wrote:
The success of Mike Smiths training is in it's simplicity. He is not burning out anyone with that kind of training so the whole team progress. Environment this and that is not the reason, it's just plain simple good coaching which a lot here could learn from rather than some rocket science concoction training.
This. Consistent, high mileage. Easy recovery days. A lot of emphasis on Threshold training supplemented with some VO2 max work. Interesting to note that the VO2 reps during track season are rarely longer than 400m and during XC they do very little VO2 max work. A few 1ks tacked onto some threshold.
I think a big part of his success with this team is how he gets them mentally ready. He comes off in all of the podcasts and interviews as a student of racing tactics and a thinking-man's coach. He finds the right buttons to push for each athlete.
A friend of mine was at the Phoenix New Times 10K this weekend and saw Smith on his motorized skateboard riding alongside some NAU redshirts and alums who were racing. He came down from Flagstaff to coach these guys during a 10K road race. NAU runners went 1-2-3-4 in the men's, freshman Theo Quax won in 29:59, and 1-2 in the women's.
https://www.athlinks.com/event/20232/results/Event/708000/Course/1156194/ResultsBig bob wrote:
Could you email me that NAU training log?
Hoodeddeath0@yahoo.com
Can you email the training log after it's been emailed to you? Thanks
ruppdaddy69@netscape.orgMike Smith makes 31k per year, does not deserve his own thread nor should we be obsessing over what he does.