3:55 seems reasonable considering his 3:39 1500m with awful tactics last week. We'll see at Pre assuming he doesn't spend half the race in lane 2 again.
Colin won't spend half the Pre mile in lane two for the simple reason that the other runners in that race are all much faster than him.
At Pre he will go right to the back, stay next to the rail, and hang on as long as he can.
No rabbits. No other Newbury Park runners. No super shoes or mondo surface. On a classic rubberized black track, halfway in SW Missouri somewhere, windy April day, just these two. Who wins?
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The other thing to consider is peaking. Brosnan has kept Sahlman & his other runners at a very high level of performance from XC through indoors through early season meets whereas Martin seems to be reaching a higher peak now. Of course it could be that Colin Sahlman is an outlier to the rest of the NP runners that have been going through state meet qualifying. The majority of them are now running slower than in March and April.
Sahlmans and Youngs are complete outliers. The rest of the NP team is completely fried. Colin may be able to continue running well despite the coaching.
The other thing to consider is peaking. Brosnan has kept Sahlman & his other runners at a very high level of performance from XC through indoors through early season meets whereas Martin seems to be reaching a higher peak now. Of course it could be that Colin Sahlman is an outlier to the rest of the NP runners that have been going through state meet qualifying. The majority of them are now running slower than in March and April.
Sahlmans and Youngs are complete outliers. The rest of the NP team is completely fried. Colin may be able to continue running well despite the coaching.
Sahlmans and Youngs are complete outliers. The rest of the NP team is completely fried. Colin may be able to continue running well despite the coaching.
Yeah. Other than their top girl but she was injured for a spell and that helped her not get so cooked. Take away the sahlmans and youngs, how’s the team looking? Seems like the point to really be examining now.
Sahlmans and Youngs are complete outliers. The rest of the NP team is completely fried. Colin may be able to continue running well despite the coaching.
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Another outlier. He’s a Young. It would take a monumental moron to screw them up. They’re safe from a common moron like Brosnan.
Sahlmans and Youngs are complete outliers. The rest of the NP team is completely fried. Colin may be able to continue running well despite the coaching.
Yeah. Other than their top girl but she was injured for a spell and that helped her not get so cooked. Take away the sahlmans and youngs, how’s the team looking? Seems like the point to really be examining now.
This overlooks the work that Brosnan did to get many of them to the level that he did. Some will say that many coaches would have gotten the same performances out of the Sahlmans the Youngs, Sam McDonnell, etc. because of their talent. Maybe, but he did get them to their levels of performances. The point is that he miscalculated in thinking that he could maintain performance levels at a very high level for months on end and then also expect everyone to peak for State qualifying. I think he's a very good coach. I'd just like to see him rethink the calendar a bit and adjust training accordingly.
What an absurd argument. Take the top 4 runners away from any highschool and they're going to be bad lol
Yeah, and take those 4 and put them on any other team and that team will be great. Camarillo High, where they live, would be the number one team in the country if they went there,
Sure, a school with roughly seven guys sub 9:05, where fifth is 8:52, wouldn't be anything except for those four. FOUR! Four kids at that level! That alone is absolutely unprecedented over the history of any other high school in the country, and this team had a fifth of equal quality just two years ago. But Gary Martin as a 1:49 guy is pretty close in speed to Colin Sahlman, who ran 1:48.8. What I haven't seen yet is whether Martin can change speed and kick hard against Sahlman at the end of a match race. But I do know this: Martin can run 3:54-55 at least in a paced race with competition. And I also know that Martin has more upside in that he has not been trained by the best coach and with the fastest teammates (including a brother he can train with outside of school) in hs history.
Sure, a school with roughly seven guys sub 9:05, where fifth is 8:52, wouldn't be anything except for those four. FOUR! Four kids at that level! That alone is absolutely unprecedented over the history of any other high school in the country, and this team had a fifth of equal quality just two years ago. But Gary Martin as a 1:49 guy is pretty close in speed to Colin Sahlman, who ran 1:48.8. What I haven't seen yet is whether Martin can change speed and kick hard against Sahlman at the end of a match race. But I do know this: Martin can run 3:54-55 at least in a paced race with competition. And I also know that Martin has more upside in that he has not been trained by the best coach and with the fastest teammates (including a brother he can train with outside of school) in hs history.
That's the fun part of being fans- following an athlete and predicting how they'll turn out. Who will be better in the end? So hard to say. Both will be coached by top guys- Sahlman with Mike Smith at NAU and Martin with Lananna at UVa. Stay tuned...
Sahlmans and Youngs are complete outliers. The rest of the NP team is completely fried. Colin may be able to continue running well despite the coaching.
Yeah. Other than their top girl but she was injured for a spell and that helped her not get so cooked. Take away the sahlmans and youngs, how’s the team looking? Seems like the point to really be examining now.
They have the most distance runners competing still at a high level. Your jealousy is getting old. Outliers is an excuse. Let's blame the coach for everyone that doesn't win or run national records and for the ones that do win and break national records it has nothing to do with the coach.
Give me the red-blooded, meat eater that is Gary Martin. If a hser could be blue collar, it's Martin; if a hser could ever be compared to a BTC athlete, it's the Newbury kids.