industry car wrote:
someone pointed out that the strength-based training that Brooks does kind of orbit around Josh Kerr and an athlete of his ability, and everyone else kind of hangs on for dear life. So when they tempo'd 4 miles at 5 flat pace, that's a true tempo for someone like Kerr, but a flat-out race for someone like Spencer. Granted, over time, you could see how the workouts were tailored for him, which is smart, but he both had some bad luck with COVID and injuries and also got buried in training.
i've post this before, but I don't really understand who he is an athlete. He's built like a skinny marathon runner, but he has trouble averaging more than 65 mile weeks, and then throw into the mix that his 400 pr is 49 point, but he ran it in high school? Just doesn't really make sense.
If I had to guess, he's going to try to replicate his georgetown training, in an effort to at least run the time he ran when he was there.
which for him, when he's getting strong, look like workouts that aren't all that impressive, then, during track season, punchy, high quality/low volume workouts that he seems to like to do like 3 x800m or 8 x 400 m etc.
But I don't know what his life goals are. Is he just going to live at home for another year while he tries to recapture his running glory and build his YouTube following in order to have the professional resume to get a full-time job in marketing?
If he truly wants to make the running thing work, he shouldn't do that. He should a club he would actually be a good fit on, which means semi-pro, not pro.
I don't know if that would mean BAA, or Central Park Track Club, or Georgetown Running Club, but one of them would work fine. He could actually build the strength that he needs to evolve as a runner instead of constantly trying to recapture what he once had
I think Joe Franklin still writes workouts for Kerr.