Bowerman TC has it right

Sinclaire is super talented but understands that being ready when it counts matters.

MD can race themselves into shape. Distance will crash and burn trying to race for 4 months. Being sharp in early March could be disastrous.

seen before wrote:

I loved the Sinclair interview. She said the game plan is to now shut it down. This is why Jerry is the best. Anyone that thinks this is the start to outdoor season will be toast in June. You can not be sharp in early March and expect to build on that until the trials without a shut down.

This is Alberto’s approach. They always ran world indoors, and then rebuilt.

Jerry is taking queues from the great.

never amazed wrote:

seen before wrote:

I loved the Sinclair interview. She said the game plan is to now shut it down. This is why Jerry is the best. Anyone that thinks this is the start to outdoor season will be toast in June. You can not be sharp in early March and expect to build on that until the trials without a shut down.

This is Alberto’s approach. They always ran world indoors, and then rebuilt.

Jerry is taking queues from the great.

Wonder if Jerry is taking any other tips from Salazar?

True, but it's a shame we won't get to see them race more often.

Will others follow or will others race over the next couple months?

This isn’t just a Schumacher thing. As someone else noted Salazar did the same thing for years. All the East Africans do this. Anyone who wants to be competitive does this.

seen before wrote:

She said the game plan is to now shut it down. This is why Jerry is the best.

We did this in high school and college... and every professional does this...

seen before wrote:

I loved the Sinclair interview. She said the game plan is to now shut it down. This is why Jerry is the best. Anyone that thinks this is the start to outdoor season will be toast in June. You can not be sharp in early March and expect to build on that until the trials without a shut down.

Who in the world thinks this is the start of the outdoor season? The Euro indoor champs are going on right now. Everyone with a brain realizes this weekend is the traditional end of indoors.

What impresses me most about Jerry is how he sets up these time trials. I always say as a coach that you want to train slow to fast. In your best races, you always feel you can go faster. Do that in practice. Do that in the time trials. Do that in everything.

But starting off these time trials slow, the guys never blow up and they finish fast and now they hit their next training block thinking they can run a lot faster.

The reality is if they went out faster last night they might have blown up. And even with a more honest event pace, Fisher probably doesn't run that much faster. But in his brain, he finished that thinking he can run way better.

The contrast of last night's time trial and the indoor 5000 in Virginia Beach that I was at really hit me last night. At the indoor 5000, the lights were set at 12:58 and 13:13 pace. In hindsight, I think that was a mistake.I If it could be re-run, I'd have set them at 13:06 and 13:20 pace at least for the first 2k.

Anthony Rotich would be feeling a little better about his Olympic steeple chances if he negative splits a 13:12 as compared to blowing up and running 13:35. Not a big deal but it does impact your mindset a bit.

seen before wrote:

I loved the Sinclair interview. She said the game plan is to now shut it down. This is why Jerry is the best. Anyone that thinks this is the start to outdoor season will be toast in June. You can not be sharp in early March and expect to build on that until the trials without a shut down.

Aren't most groups shutting down right now? Engels said he was taking a break and looks like Boss group is too

Trackfan55 wrote:

never amazed wrote:

This is Alberto’s approach. They always ran world indoors, and then rebuilt.

Jerry is taking queues from the great.

Wonder if Jerry is taking any other tips from Salazar?

Yep.

Schumacher and Salazar actually consulted a lot when NOP was around.

tuccone wrote:

Trackfan55 wrote:

Wonder if Jerry is taking any other tips from Salazar?

Yep.

Pfffft. Like you know anything.

itstrottingnotjogging wrote:

Schumacher and Salazar actually consulted a lot when NOP was around.

Not even close to true. They haven’t spoken in almost a decade.

I agree Rojo. The best way to race is even to slight negative split. Possibly Fisher may have run 12:59 if he was 8:22 at 3200m instead of 8:26, but I agree with the mindset of thinking there is a lot more in the tank

seen before wrote:

Will others follow or will others race over the next couple months?

Some others haven't even raced yet, they'll run some April races and really get rolling in May and be all in for June. A lot of people skipped these February/March races and just did early season base work still building up

A fast March creates a lethargic July.

seen before wrote:

A fast March creates a lethargic July.

Not if you take a break then build back up. Competing within the international schedule allows for such. The NCAA schedule does not.

Look to last year to understand, solely from a timing standpoint, how BTC trained and when they raced. They are mirroring that in this Olympic year.

seen before wrote:

I loved the Sinclair interview. She said the game plan is to now shut it down. This is why Jerry is the best. Anyone that thinks this is the start to outdoor season will be toast in June. You can not be sharp in early March and expect to build on that until the trials without a shut down.

Jerry hasn't produced an Olympic Champion or a podium finish yet. (Shalene's was before Schumacher)

We can't call him the "best" quite yet, in the US nor the World (no!)

Hopefully BTC brings home some hardware this summer!

Until then, by Oly standards, Jerry might be a great coach but there are certainly more credentialed coaches both recently and especially historically.

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Do the names Jager, infield, frerichs mean anything to you?