Champions are everywhere. Young 14 year old athlete I coach runs 4:04.9 for 1500m tonight. Your athletes are only limited by you knowledge of coaching.
Why is it that on every thread you post on you must be subtly bragging about your coaching abilities when its very clear you just pick and choose extremely talented youth athletes for your group?
Champions are everywhere. Young 14 year old athlete I coach runs 4:04.9 for 1500m tonight. Your athletes are only limited by you knowledge of coaching.
Good luck out there.
A fast time does not make someone a champion. Millennial mindset.
Champions are everywhere. Young 14 year old athlete I coach runs 4:04.9 for 1500m tonight. Your athletes are only limited by you knowledge of coaching.
Good luck out there.
Link to who this kid is? I think you’re in Australia right? Slew of fast kids coming out of there lately.
Champions are everywhere. Young 14 year old athlete I coach runs 4:04.9 for 1500m tonight. Your athletes are only limited by you knowledge of coaching.
Good luck out there.
Kevin Sullivan ran 1.53(800) and 3.54 (1500) at 14yo. He has always recommended that people don't follow his path - it means little for the future in most cases. The Sullivan's and Ingebrigtsens's of the world (phenoms who developed to the Senior ranks at a high level) are the rarity, NOT the norm. Most of these phenoms don't develop, rather than the other way around. So better to let them develop (even in this social media age) with little fanfare, rather than ballyhooing these accomplishments, as it makes their lack of development (if that happens) all the more tragic. While we see this more often with the girls (mostly due to pubertal changes), the boys are not immune to this occurrence. The youth lists are filled with athletes who ran record times as youngsters but disappear when it counts later. It is one of the reasons why Coe got rid of the world youth championship (along with age-cheating too), as too many from the meet were not making the transition to the Senior ranks.
In fact I could argue that Riley M. (1.46 recently) who is also someone that you coach, is a product of the opposite development (someone who started at 21yo with a 2.04 800m). Perhaps that is why he is fresh and motivated to improve at 26yo.
Champions are everywhere. Young 14 year old athlete I coach runs 4:04.9 for 1500m tonight. Your athletes are only limited by you knowledge of coaching.
Good luck out there.
Kevin Sullivan ran 1.53(800) and 3.54 (1500) at 14yo. He has always recommended that people don't follow his path - it means little for the future in most cases. The Sullivan's and Ingebrigtsens's of the world (phenoms who developed to the Senior ranks at a high level) are the rarity, NOT the norm. Most of these phenoms don't develop, rather than the other way around. So better to let them develop (even in this social media age) with little fanfare, rather than ballyhooing these accomplishments, as it makes their lack of development (if that happens) all the more tragic. While we see this more often with the girls (mostly due to pubertal changes), the boys are not immune to this occurrence. The youth lists are filled with athletes who ran record times as youngsters but disappear when it counts later. It is one of the reasons why Coe got rid of the world youth championship (along with age-cheating too), as too many from the meet were not making the transition to the Senior ranks.
In fact I could argue that Riley M. (1.46 recently) who is also someone that you coach, is a product of the opposite development (someone who started at 21yo with a 2.04 800m). Perhaps that is why he is fresh and motivated to improve at 26yo.
Thank you for your well thought response.
Yes junior development is always on my mind when working with athletes. As you are well aware of my coaching you must be aware of the Princeton runner that has recently run 3:56 for the mile who came to me at the age of 10.
I also coach the Australian female 10k champ who only started training seriously at the age of 18.
The young athlete that ran 4:04 recently is a product of the group dynamics more than the training. We don't do anything different than most groups do in Australia. Haha we don't run 65 second pace 400's very often which is another matter.
When I ran in Richmond VA 5:15 was a good middle school mile. Todays athletes prove that with smart training and a great group anything is possible.
Don't be afraid to let your athletes dream big.
I started posting many years ago to share what has worked for my athletes. I don't think I will engage in that endeavour anymore.
often even the teen phenoms who do transition to senior ranks dont stay there very long,and they rarely have long careers.Because they ran so fast young they run themselves into the ground sooner.