It’s Mike Smith’s World and We’re All Living In It

Dang! That’s true…

Yes, Hiltz started being coached by Smith in the winter of 2022.

Love Mike Smith (my alias in college)... needs some global medals. Maybe Louis?

He blew it that last race with Zenyatta. Too far back.

Is that the guy w the dumb fake accent

Also Luis G (best American 5k at the moment)

Pretty evenly spread around.
OAN has Nugue, Alicia Monson, Marisa Howard, Mario Garcia Rono (3:29), Ollie Hoare (either 3:29 or 3:30), Sage Huerta-Klecker, Josette Andrews, etc, etc, etc

Marisa Howard is not a member of the OAC.

OK, well, I think he had another steepler in the Olympics

And one single point at NCAA Outdoor championships.

Any Mike Smith Training insights???

7000 ft Flagstaff

What else?

Global medals are near impossible in some of the events w/Kenya, Ethiopia, and some of the Europeans running so well, though. I hardly expect Grant Fisher or Woody Kincaid to get a global medal to call them successful. Fisher had the highest combined finish in the 5 and 10 in the past championships and set a bunch of medals. Kincaid and Klecker broke 13 indoors too. I'd call them successes.

Every once in a while someone like Centrowicz, Molly Seidel, I think Alicia Craig in the marathon, Clayton Murphy, or Manzano gets lucky, and we have advantages in the women's steeple and 800.

But it will likely be OAN who gets those medals at least in the men's 1500.

Your thinking of a different runner, not Alicia Craig .

Amy (Hastings) Cragg

Double thresholds. (They have been around for decades though).

Luis was 4th in the 5k at worlds last year in Oregon and has run 12:52 this season thus far. I'd like to believe he could be in contention with about a K to go in the 5k at worlds this year.

Move oxygen like a boss the second half of a 10k.

The keys are…

Talent

100 mpw without injuries

Threshold focused workouts

High altitude

Some have one, two, or three. Very few have four and he has the ability to acquire/provide all four.