The exodus from BTC seems not just related to Shelbys drug bust. Many athletes recently have indicated that they were unhappy with Jerrys Training. Look at this article of Marielle Hall on runnings world when she announced that she left. This is pretty damning, she says she was overtrained and when injured they do not give them recovery schedules. There is just the A train and if you can't perform and hop back onto it you are not getting any support. Although she has not left Emily Infeld has said something similar in a recent podcast she did (think Ali on the run).
Frankly it is *ridiculous* a coach of Jerrys (and Shalanes) exprience cannot guide athletes back to health from injury. Injuries are so common for runners and managing injured athletes should be daily routine for them. Instead they just seems to overtrain them, which is probably what leads all of them to be injured.
Honestly would not surprise me if BTC is done in the grand scheme of things. They were dominating womens distance running in the US and now their athletes can't jump ship fast enough.
Here is the parts of the Marielle Hall article:
[quote]“It did kind of feel like they weren’t quite sure how to help,” Hall said. “There’s not really plan B for people. There’s plan A. There are not many ways they were offering as alternatives to what the program was. That makes it difficult for anyone.
“The train is always a good analogy,” she continued. “It really doesn’t stop. You’re able to achieve these high peaks and incredible things. Sometimes people get left behind. I think you have to understand that aspect of training. It’s an intense, rigorous environment. I understood that but also know that it doesn’t have to be that way for me personally. There are other ways to train and exist within the sport.”[]/quote
Full article here:
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a37624966/marielle-hall-leaves-bowerman-track-club/