Josh Kerr training/mileage?

Just watch any training vid with brooks beasts in them on youtube - Sweat elite, athlete special etc. Danny Mackey is the coach so search him up if you want. Josh is an absolute tank though and would probably thrive under any reasonable training regime/coach. There is nothing special about the training he does.

lamplight wrote:

Just watch any training vid with brooks beasts in them on youtube - Sweat elite, athlete special etc. Danny Mackey is the coach so search him up if you want. Josh is an absolute tank though and would probably thrive under any reasonable training regime/coach. There is nothing special about the training he does.

God this is such a letsrun take. Danny Mackey has had great success with a number of athletes, and he's coached Josh to one of the fastest EU 1500m times of all time. The number of coaches that have coached an athlete to sub-3:30 (esp without EPO) is a very short list. Not to mention all the other Beasts athletes that had banner years and consistent improvement under him. Every pro group has runners that don't pan out (even more so if they're clean). The Danny Mackey slander on this site is outrageous. He's not the second coming of Christ but no coach is (no, not even Ben Thomas).

mackey sucks

the athlete special vids are hardly helpful because spencer was always doing a different workout d/t injuries or just not being as fit. i am curious about kerr's mileage tho. feel like its relatively low, but hard to tell from what ive seen posted.

te5n1k wrote:

the athlete special vids are hardly helpful because spencer was always doing a different workout d/t injuries or just not being as fit. i am curious about kerr's mileage tho. feel like its relatively low, but hard to tell from what ive seen posted.

Kerr's mileage was in the high 60's to low 70's this year I believe.

My take on Kerr is that he could probably be coached to an extraordinarily high level by many coaches, because he is savvy. Some might call this "coachable," but I think Kerr's "training IQ" shows through more than Mackey's "coaching IQ," which I would argue based on Mackey's history with other athletes.

I agree that Kerr seems to have a really good idea of what training is all about, both within individual sessions, and as a whole. In a lot of the videos others have mentioned, Kerr simply runs with the top pack, taking his turn at the front like everyone else, and probably runs the workouts in a manner that is quite controlled for him. He (and Mackey?) then intelligently choose moments for him to drop the hammer.

In other words, he does a lot of controlled training that allows him to be really consistent and "soak up" a lot of fitness, and he seems to punctuate this with well-spaced-out moments of going out on the edge to nudge his race fitness in the right direction. This is a really smart way to go about it if you have the right mindset and are the fittest member of your training group, and contrasts nicely with the "top dawg" mentality where the fittest runner tries to "win" everything and prove they are the best of the bunch on every rep.