Newbury Park 4 under 4:10 mile today

Ok, just trying to elevate a great coach. My team has finished in the top 10 in Colorado a couple times, nothing too special. Hope that's good enough for you.

The zoom conversation I was on was an invite only, Brosnan was there, Tinman, and the former coach from Mississippi State. Brosnan was calk cool and collected. He talked about the influence of his time in Portland, discussing workouts with Alberto and Shumacher, it was very insightful.

I have always been a Lydiard guy, so all I am saying is that I believe there is a lot more to the sport than easy runs and critical velocity. The best US coaches evidently are doing harder workouts.

ColoradoCulinaryRunner wrote:

Ok, just trying to elevate a great coach. My team has finished in the top 10 in Colorado a couple times, nothing too special. Hope that's good enough for you.

The zoom conversation I was on was an invite only, Brosnan was there, Tinman, and the former coach from Mississippi State. Brosnan was calk cool and collected. He talked about the influence of his time in Portland, discussing workouts with Alberto and Shumacher, it was very insightful.

I have always been a Lydiard guy, so all I am saying is that I believe there is a lot more to the sport than easy runs and critical velocity. The best US coaches evidently are doing harder workouts.

I wish I was on this zoom call.

Although I did speak with Brosnan at NXN few years back. Not enough time to really get into training with detail. I do think Brosnan would make a great college or professional coach. His team is going to be incredible the coming years, but I do wonder if he would get an opportunity to coach at a higher level.

He certainly could have offers for atleast an assistant position at a top level D1 or for professional group, but my guess would have to show more years of consistent development to have top D1 take him. They want consistency and also that you appear squeaky clean. I bet he finishes with this top group and either moves to college or takes over Nico’s training once professional.

As long as he takes a job while the current group at Newbury is still there and the potential employer doesn’t do background checks, he may get an assistant job if that’s what he’s interested in. However, I would think he believes he should walk into a top D1 job. His name dropping would probably catch up to him as the coaches all know each other, would ask around and realize he’s not collaborating on training with Jerry and AlSal.

It was very cool listening to some great minds. There were 25-35 coaches on the coach. Al Schmidt was flexing some profound knowledge. Dave Frank a coach from Portland, not sure of the school was a major mover in the group. Coach Hickey had some crazy knowledge of the science, differing to Christiansen and Schmidt. Tinman seemed angry and defensive to anyone who thought differently than him. Wish it was recorded and I could go back, slow it down and research the things discussed.