Two weeks ago, I had a chat with Colin Sahlman after he was named the Gatorade XC runner of the year. So much has been going on, we held the interview until today. I thought the most interest part came when I asked him if he views himself as a 5k guy or miler.
"I really want to race the mile -- like that's where my passion is at right now," said Sahlman in a Q&A with LetsRun after being named the 2021 Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year.
There was an earlier thread that suggested the Newbury Park runners are already functioning as pros, training with the top methods, equipment and locations, and traveling around the country for big meets. I don't think this is how high schoolers should be trained, but it will be interesting to see if any of them become world stars in the next decade.
Americans are such babies about HS training, its why we are always so far behind in distance running. Jakob has been training as a pro since he was like 12, the East Africans would run 10+ miles every day just getting back and forth to school. These kids run like 60 mpw and all people can talk about is how they are training like pro runners and wont improve as much.
Good for these kids and the coach for putting themselves in the position to run these times.
There was an earlier thread that suggested the Newberry Park runners are already functioning as pros, training with the top methods, equipment and locations, and traveling around the country for big meets. I don't think this is how high schoolers should be trained, but it will be interesting to see if any of them become world stars in the next decade.
Your in high school with a 3:58 mile PB and 8:33 3200 PB and you don’t have to lead every rep in an interval workout or distance workout. That may have never happened in high school running history. You have three others on your team to help you carry the daily load of training. That is the depth of NBP.
I believe this group of 8 NPB runners will succeed in the future because when they get to college, pro’s they’ll have an understanding that they don’t have to lead every workout to be successful. It’s OK to follow and still have success.
There was an earlier thread that suggested the Newbury Park runners are already functioning as pros, training with the top methods, equipment and locations, and traveling around the country for big meets. I don't think this is how high schoolers should be trained, but it will be interesting to see if any of them become world stars in the next decade.
Your in high school with a 3:58 mile PB and 8:33 3200 PB and you don’t have to lead every rep in an interval workout or distance workout. That may have never happened in high school running history.
Closest thing to this was probably the Rosa brothers? They had decent college careers but never really had pro careers.
There was an earlier thread that suggested the Newberry Park runners are already functioning as pros, training with the top methods, equipment and locations, and traveling around the country for big meets. I don't think this is how high schoolers should be trained, but it will be interesting to see if any of them become world stars in the next decade.
Your in high school with a 3:58 mile PB and 8:33 3200 PB and you don’t have to lead every rep in an interval workout or distance workout. That may have never happened in high school running history. You have three others on your team to help you carry the daily load of training. That is the depth of NBP.
I believe this group of 8 NPB runners will succeed in the future because when they get to college, pro’s they’ll have an understanding that they don’t have to lead every workout to be successful. It’s OK to follow and still have success.
Did they ask him how long he thinks it will be until he smokes Hocker in the 1500?
Why not? Pretty sure someone said his dad was a sheriff or something, not exactly generational wealth. If he gets the right offer in HS he should absolutely take it.
