Sean Brosnan/Lex & Leo burnout

I was thinking about making this thread myself. The year brosnans out, the young’s overwork, and salhman puts it all together perfectly after and early season injury. Put some respect on brosnans name

Are you aware that Sean Brosnan lives in the same house as the new Newbury Park head coach? There wasn't anything going on with Newbury Park's xc training this year that Sean Brosnan wasn't involved in.

Remember Lex and Leo will be racing the U-20's XC, this isn't the end of their season. Probably didn't go all in on peak and pushed to hard in the race.

This is laughable. They wanted NXN badly, as they wanted German’s record. They weren’t saving themselves for anything after this race.

please explain to us how anyone can run great 2 weeks ago and now, 2 weeks later, they are burned out?!

dumbest take on what happened today I have heard. they went after it, did all the early work in crazy winds, and died. it happens to even the best from time to time. thinking anyone, specially at that age, have superpowers and can overperform in every single race shows you have probably never been a serious runner yourself.

when jakob lost the world champs, did you think he was "burned out" as well?

Not the same thing as his physical presence. He was like a father figure. I don’t know if he would have reigned in the twins, but that is what they needed this year. Also, less race pace training and more sub threshold. They were completely fried and should skip world junior cross to regroup.

If you call that a father figure, man, that’s a weird ass father figure.

The Youngs DO still see Sean Brosnan. And he is still involved in planning their workouts. You obviously have no idea how things actually work at Newbury Park.

Some of you guys must have never ran a race in your life, yet you post here.

They ran very "unintelligent" to be kind. Great runners who didn't respect the weather. Their little pull away speed moves bit them in the butt. In better weather, they'd have probably went 1-2, but not today.

Bringing Sean into this is ridiculous! They weren't burned out and they didn't train poorly, they just ran stupid arrogant style races today and they beat themselves. Accept it as that's what happened.

You seem to completely forget that since the start of the season, they were not running faster than last year by any meaningful difference, after a years worth of hard training, at 17 years of age.

Then Leo had nothing at the end of the CA state meet. He ran 14:25 at Woodward Park earlier in the season. Then NXN where they underperform. It’s called burnout.

Perhaps more respect on the competitors was needed. Less front running, which has been their way all season. And to be fair, has worked out well.

Looking at their race schedule this year vs. last, they dropped the Woodbridge Classic this season. They actually raced less this year. Last year's schedule also included the Southern Section preliminary race one weekend, followed by the section finals the next weekend.

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It's called going out too fast. That's it. That's all it is.

This whole burnout idea is a figment of your imagination.

Don’t underestimate the role of stress in there. Being celebrities at all these races where they were expected to win (as opposed to last year where they had Colin to take some pressure off), YouTube channel, they even did a podcast after last weeks race.

i recently watched Morgan McDonald win ncaa cross and was impressed with how invisible Fisher and McDonald were for most of that race. The polar opposite of these guys, trying to set records last week and run away from a strong field this week.

I agree that they needed guidance and looked burned out. Wish they were going to NAU because Mike Smith is the best at the mental side of things and that’s exactly what these two need right now.

The Youngs should forget about Stanford and switch to NAU for "guidance"?

Give me a break. That's a horrible idea.

Do you think Stanford is full of idiots? You think that they won't get guidance at Stanford?

What about Nico during NXN?

I don’t think “father figure” is the right word. Mentor is tho. Sure Sean Brosnan wrote the workouts for them, but he wasn’t there during every workout and every race. What I’m trying to say is that Sean and Tanya are two comeltly different people and even though you may have two identical coaching papers doesn’t mean that you will get the same results.

Stanford will have too many distractions. They’re talented in other areas besides running. At NAU it would be all about running. But that seems to be what they want. The chance to make a decent living off of running is slim to none. There best bet is to use running as in to Stanford and then quit running to focus on the stuff that matters.

Can you point to where I suggested they should switch?