What could drew hunter do different to be competitive to make teams

maybe he can follow the example of his teammate and find a country that he can claim citizenship to that is weak in the 1500/5000 and make a team that way

He should join a legit team/ get a legit coach. Unfortunately being sponsored by adidas probably makes that hard to happen. Lose lose for both athlete and sponsor.

What can you do to make teams? Nothing, you're not good enough. Same for him. At least he's earning a good living.

Didn't he win the 2 mile like a year or two ago?

I gotta say, it seems like Drew needs to change something. It doesn't seem like changing coaches is doing a whole lot. He needs to be forced out of his comfort zone and stay healthy. It would be an easy move to just start training with On across town unofficially. He needs to train with people more talented than him who will push him enough. He beat Grant Fisher in high school as a junior and look at the difference now...

I have no idea how these work but seems unlikely the On team would just let drew start training with them. It wouldn’t make any sense for them.

*He won the 2 mile from the B heat while getting paced by teammates.

In terms of training philosophy, Tinmom seems to prescribe similar workouts to Tinman, so it's really only a minor coaching change. He could try joining another program, but maybe this is as good as he gets. His performances are still better than what most other people ever achieve.

If they can put together $10M for his contract, they're invested enough to brush aside this TME experiment, and put a real set up around him

Not sure if he can string together high enough mileage for it. He can run very solid off what he’s been doing. 3:34 outdoors. But today he just went backwards last 200 (I didn’t watch it so I didn’t see his positioning) but Ribich was behind him and put up a fast last 200 to move up.

Dude is a solid runner making way more $ than almost all of his competitors.

Why change?

He likely won't be making way more than his competitors in a couple years when that contract ends, but he's definitely done well for himself.

People are so bitter that he got a huge contract which he hadn't really earned. But the ones questioning why he isn't running faster are not fans who really think he can run faster. It is there way of ringing attention to his situation. I am a fan. I think he is maxed. Where is Maton? Where is Slagowski? Same talent but Hunter is competing and getting rich.

He could join a real team. I don't think he is doing the necessary work to reach World Class level, his workouts are just simply not hard enough looking at Strava. Its night and day listening to some of his peers like Grant Fisher talk about how he would get back from BTC workouts and just pass out on the floor he was so exhausted. The Tinman "keep the ball rolling" philosophy is great up to a certain level, but at some point you need to go all in and go for broke.

We knew Drew Hunter is not trying to be competitive because he picked his mom as his coach.

His contract states he has to pay his coach out of pocket. Instead of investing in a good coach, he has mommy work for him for free.

Introducing sleepless nights with a newborn should get him back on track.

Kneel before the great Tinman begging to have his old coach back.

For one he’s gotta move back to the 3,000/5,000. He cant hang in a tactical 1500/mile race.

If he can't hang with top 1500m guys, he probably won't do any better against Teare, Fisher, Nur, Kinkaid, among others. If he's not going to key on power and speed then he should think about the 10K and above, honestly.

1. Shouldn't be at altitude. He complains all the time that he feels 'bad' or 'tired' or whatever. I think this is the big one. It should allow him to do proper training.

2. See a proper PT. Dave Mchenry or whoever. Someone should be able to fix the hitch in his stride.

3. Get some consistent T work in, getting up to at least 8 miles. No Double T when you can't even control the single T. Weird coaching there. Restructure or even lower weekly mileage to allow this. Also if T is hard break it up and DON'T jog the rest.

4. If the fixing the fatigue/upping volume stuff doesn't work, join Very Nice Track Club. Warhurst has had success with runners who need long breaks between workouts and low volume (Ben Flanagan for example)

5. I know my advice works because I am sitting in my bead with a sfx