Sweat Elite Training Sessions

The Sapporo Olympic Marathon is not going to require as much high end aerobic work as you would think. Jake Riley has the aerobic threshold to run 2:08 in good conditions. He will do well so long as his body can stand up to the pounding and the heat, so improving his aerobic threshold is not required at this point. The key is him maintaining a high volume of mileage, at whatever speed, without going in with nagging injuries. This marathon is going to be hot, similar to Rio, and it will take out some very good marathon runners not prepared for it. I think Jake knows he has a 2:11:30 or something in him in the Sapporo conditions, which is what Jared Ward ran for 6th in Rio.

In the sweat elite podcast his coach lee troop said jake was injured for sometime during last year (I don’t remember which months) I imagine they don’t wanna risk getting injured again. Better to show up to the Olympic marathon undertrained than overcooked and unable to finish the race

optional wrote:

I've really enjoyed these videos over the past few weeks... But super curious about the sessions Jake Riley has done.

Very low volume and not super intense. I know that it isn't just about one session and know that we only see a few sessions. But, seems very low quality for an Olympian.

Also, Morgan Pearson comes off as a jerk in his two sessions.

Thoughts?

Agree. Pearson comes off as fairly unfriendedly. I can imagine that guy is hard to get along with.

bored in Boulder wrote:

optional wrote:

I've really enjoyed these videos over the past few weeks... But super curious about the sessions Jake Riley has done.

Very low volume and not super intense. I know that it isn't just about one session and know that we only see a few sessions. But, seems very low quality for an Olympian.

Also, Morgan Pearson comes off as a jerk in his two sessions.

Thoughts?

Agree. Pearson comes off as fairly unfriendedly. I can imagine that guy is hard to get along with.

Is it just my imagination or is Morgan Pearson the son of J. Michael Pearson, the disgraced CEO of the "pharma company" Valeant? Pharma company in quotes since the company was one giant finance scam with zero actual drug development back in J. Michael Pearson's day. According to his athlete page from CU, Morgan's father's name is Mike, his mom's name is Christine, he has dual Canadian citizenship, and went to Duke before transferring to CU. Google J. Michael Pearson to see the overlap.

awesomeblossom wrote:

bored in Boulder wrote:

Agree. Pearson comes off as fairly unfriendedly. I can imagine that guy is hard to get along with.

Is it just my imagination or is Morgan Pearson the son of J. Michael Pearson, the disgraced CEO of the "pharma company" Valeant? Pharma company in quotes since the company was one giant finance scam with zero actual drug development back in J. Michael Pearson's day. According to his athlete page from CU, Morgan's father's name is Mike, his mom's name is Christine, he has dual Canadian citizenship, and went to Duke before transferring to CU. Google J. Michael Pearson to see the overlap.

Lol I think you're correct, nice find! On Morgan's Duke XC page it says his father 'Mike' graduated in 1981 which is indeed when J. Michael Pearson graduated from Duke, and J. Michael Pearson is married to a Christine Pearson according to wikipedia.

bored in Boulder wrote:

optional wrote:

I've really enjoyed these videos over the past few weeks... But super curious about the sessions Jake Riley has done.

Very low volume and not super intense. I know that it isn't just about one session and know that we only see a few sessions. But, seems very low quality for an Olympian.

Also, Morgan Pearson comes off as a jerk in his two sessions.

Thoughts?

Agree. Pearson comes off as fairly unfriendedly. I can imagine that guy is hard to get along with.

I get the same vibe from Pearson however I have a good friend who talks very highly of Pearson. Perhaps he is simply on the spectrum and doesn’t come across well in media

How exactly do you figure he has 2:08 in him after the workouts they’ve shown? Just curious, cause it doesn’t seem like he’s shown that kind of ability in those workouts.

DirtyT wrote:

How exactly do you figure he has 2:08 in him after the workouts they’ve shown? Just curious, cause it doesn’t seem like he’s shown that kind of ability in those workouts.

Goes back to handicapping ATL performances, if Rupp gets a handicap then so do the other finishers. According to Riley and his coach, he's as fit or fitter now. Ultimately, no matter how well you prepare, weather conditions can find the chink in your armor, perhaps the one little thing you didn't do. Same for newly-developed shoes that were only tried in dry conditions when your feet get soggy from moisture. We saw that play out in ATL among the number of favorites who missed the team.

Did you just blame the lack of certain athletes making the team in ATL on moisture? The ones who were "favorites" never had a chance on that hilly of a course running90-100mpw. No soggy shoes(duh fuq).

I phrased it poorly, it was more about conditions on the day plus course profile, and certainly a few were thrown by wearing new shoes without time to really test them. I know a few personally who made the weird choice to wear Alphaflys for the first time in that race and paid a price though who knows how much they factored compared with wind and hills. If the favorites all prepared perfectly for the course and conditions then it's bizarre that so few made the team. Sorry if that seems all too obvious.

I dunno but most people avoid Sweat Elite like the plaque these days. They are shady AF!

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.sweatelite.co

Sweat Elite will not be heard from within the next couple years. Super shady stuff has been going on with Matt.

what shady stuff? he seems like a nice dude and gets along well with all the athletes/coaches (even running with some of them on easy days).

yeah we need some context here

Hide the women and children.

Pearson's father's wikipedia page is a good read.

Interesting he donated almost $15,000,000 to Duke the same year Morgan enrolled. No wonder he can sustain a pro-triathlete lifestyle.

not fake news wrote:

I dunno but most people avoid Sweat Elite like the plaque these days. They are shady AF!

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.sweatelite.co

A lot of those reviews seem fake. Is there some disgruntled writer out there that has beef with Matt?

All of those claims are legit. Sweat Elite used to be more written content and it was revealed a lot of their articles and training plans (that they charged people to view) were fake or plagiarized.

It’s a pretty big turn around to post only unedited video straight from the source, but all of that last stuff was pretty well known.

forcerunner wrote:

All of those claims are legit. Sweat Elite used to be more written content and it was revealed a lot of their articles and training plans (that they charged people to view) were fake or plagiarized.

It’s a pretty big turn around to post only unedited video straight from the source, but all of that last stuff was pretty well known.

I remember seeing the crazy Mo Farah training weeks that Salazar prescribed them. In addition to a bunch of Kenyan/Ethiopian training weeks. Then, they took quite a break and didn't post for a good time. Took advantage of the slow downfall of workout videos of Flotrack and made a serious move towards social media.

Morgan seems like a pretty cool guy why's everyone seeing those things. During workouts, a lot of athletes are joyful when the cameras are on but I'm sure they're just as serious as Morgan when they aren't there. During the Olympics, he was nice enough to get interact with the locals and share his experience winning a silver medal. It's the little things that say a lot about a person. He's great friends with the competitive folks around CU so I don't get it. Anyways, Sweat Elite is pumping some real content! Love their stuff.