curious newbie wrote:
Can anyone succinctly explain what the deal is with Schumacher? I have seen him talked about a few times, but I never know what it's about. I just want to be in on things
Schumacher is the head coach of Nike’s Bowerman
Track club. Before that, he was the head coach at the University of Wisconsin.
He’s a bit elusive and gives very few interviews. This was probably a bigger deal when Salazar was still coaching a ton of athletes and Sal was getting in front of every journalist he could find (that wouldn’t ask about doping).
He famously has a quirky take on “mileage” wherein he counts time-on-feet instead of distance covered. (So, like, a woman running 35 minutes and covering 6 miles has only run 5 “Jerry miles”/“Badger miles” according to his system.)
He’s also pretty conservative and doesn’t like to race his team too much outside of championship events. You’ll see the LetsRun boards ribbing him for this whenever there’s an actual track season again.