rojo wrote:
Ite ad Joseph wrote:
You should say that Jerry's training was just not good.
Well . One way to view it is. Jerry may have been giving her the training she needs to do to run a certain level. Normally, I believe in coaching a runner by simply looking at their training and taking the next logical step. But sometimes, at Cornell, if they were a senior or something, I'd say, "If you want to do xxx, you need to be able to do yyyy" in training. Forcing it almost never works but the reality is if Kate is going to be world class at 1500, there was likely a bare minimum of stuff that Jerffy imagined she needed to do.
I had a studly 800 recruit. We tried to bump up his mileage a bit. It didn't work. I decided - ok, we can drop him back down to 20 mpw and he can run 151 for the rest of his life. That's pretty good but he's not going to progress from there. If I was Kate, I'd say move back to the 800, drop your mileage and go all in on speed. She'll benefit from the strength work she did the last few years and she's gotten way more competitive in the 800 at a global level since all the intersex women have been booted.
When Semenya and company were in the event, there was really no poitn for Kate to be in the 800. But now it's the opposite.
Kate Grace was one of the "hottest" runners before she joined BTC. Jerry's training fizzled it out of her. She is a different runner now. Is anyone concerned about the injury rates at BTC?