Will Sumner to join team Rinaldi/Fast 8 TC

Great for Rinaldi.

Very good two lap coach too.

where is the club based in?

Melbourne. I have absolutely no idea what that means for Sumner permanent location wise, not privy to that intel.

Bro coached nobodies. Another US talent gone.

Yeah he definitely should have gone Nike and hooked up with Pete Julian....

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Melbourne Aus

This makes sense as have followed Fast8 on twitter and there were regular post about Sumner.

Him relocating to Australia would be very interesting particularly considering how he is so young.

Good luck to him and Justin.

No disrespect to JRinaldi - excellent coach, but why not reach out and train with Marco Arop (also adidas). Given how poorly E.Korir has been racing, Arop is arguably the best 800m guy right now (according to world ranking anyway). presume he also trains in the US somewhere (even though he is Canadian). Being from another country, they aren't competitors for national titles either. Arop has a blend of speed (46.1 400) and endurance (2.14 1km and 3.38 1500m).

That's exciting. Fast 8 Track Club is attracting not just Aussies.

Can’t really go wrong with either of those two. Some might not want to hear this, but a Bobby Kersee-Will Sumner partnership might be something.

As others have mentioned, Melbourne. However, three athletes on the team are based in Europe and come down to Australia during the Northern winter for an extended training camp.

Would be huge news if true. And it might mean that Rinaldi could be able to start coaching full-time which is a fantastic reward for a guy who has balanced developing some of the best athletes in the world with a really solid corporate career over the past fifteen years.

I agree, Marco and Will should train together 😁

Oh? This double arrangement has promise.

So happy for him!

As a Brit, it is rather surreal to see Guy Learmonth held up as a paragon of elite 800m running.

congrats coach

i hope Will chooses to train in australia

i found that it's easy to shed mental/emotional/whatever baggage when moving to a place where nobody knows me

he can instantly transform himself mentally and hold himself physically like he's a sub-1:41 guy just waiting to happen, or whatever his goal is

while there is nothing that can replace the feeling of being at/near home on a nostalgic level, there is equally nothing like starting over somewhere else

it can lead to seemingly instantaneous jumps in capacity and performance

Thought exactly the same thing about Brad Mathas. Improved less that half a second in 7 years

Can you confirm or deny that you are going to be coaching Sumner in the future?

In his post race interview, he said he’s going to be training in Marietta, GA but wasn’t confirming his coaching situation.