Morgan McDonald injured again

Soooo many stress fractures on their team. Do they not have a nutritionist????? Huge red flag

I bet diet is part of it. I recall one runner there coming home from a meet to a basket full of disgusting crappy candy and eating spaghettiOs.
However when I look at their training in Strava the mileage together with the pace day after day is just too brutal to stay injury free. Im sure more will be injured by early outdoor season especially those prone to it.

These frail boys need to eat some cheese.

Sometimes your body just can’t handle the training and thus you gotta pack it in. Morgan used to beat Fisher now Fisher is going to beat the world. Tough stuff. Maybe he can be a sales rep for On

He is injured again, no runs for the past week, and a bunch of cross training according to his strava.

He’s always had injury issues right? I remember one indoor season at Wisconsin he literally never did a track workout only hills to stay healthy.

He’s not a work horse, he’s a show pony. Let him prance!!!

Mostly men or women? Mostly or even half men would be a red flag.

A real shame we haven’t seen him at his best. One can’t help but wonder… He owned Grant in college.

It may be time for him to make a coaching change. Anything to that reignites his career is worth pursuing at this point.

Ritzenhein should see the writing on the wall and acknowledge that his program hasn’t worked out for Morgan. Can’t win em all.

Dathan is not the coach for him.

You can’t pin this all on the coach. He’s extremely immature (look at his training videos- (dude, you’re 29- act like it) and unprofessional in his approach to races (listen to his rendition of his Paris experience on his podcast). I’m sure that’s the same in his day to day training. You really think a guy like that is eating correctly, getting proper sleep, and doing prehab? It’s gut wrenching to see other worldly talent wasted on guys like this.

Grant also didn’t try that hard in college. Milt did an interview where he said he basically had an intervention with Grant that he needed to take running more seriously

I mean Ritz was a walking stress fracture so not terribly surprising?

None of the club teams have a designated nutritionist. The sponsors don’t want the potential liability that would come with that. Instead, It is up to the individual athlete to seek out and pay for such out of their budget for massage, doctor etc.

He’s a man boy with grandpa bones.

That’s not true for the OAC for doctors and physios at least. Morgan talked about how Dathan set up an MRI for him in 24 hrs and OAC covered the whole thing. Then he went to their team physio and they also have that guy Jason who does treatment for them.

Not sure why there aren’t nutritionists though. Considering the massive amount of bone injuries and I suspect Alicia’s knee was also deficiency related. Obviously they train hard/run high mileage, but you can’t be doing that without recovery

On a very early Morgan YouTube video when he was on team boss, he was asking Maddie Alm nutrition questions. I think she was their team nutritionist.
I always wondered if she got a discount on Joe’s coaching/being part of team boss for offering dietitian services.

Looking at how positively Josh Kerr talks about the private chef, seems like everyone should at least have someone externally planning their meals even if the athletes cook

Dude has been running in crap shoes since Wisco, and king of injury is now the coach? Big surprise.

as I remember, milt was purposefully holding him back too. topped out at like 70-75mpw during college. I don't think morgan was on that same kind of leash (and was a 5th year when he won all his titles).

Obviously injuries happen, but avoidable injuries are a shame. I would never join OAC if I was an athlete based on what has been going on. At what point do they decide ritz is not a good coach? They also have major issues with mental stuff like confidence. I think one by one they’ll start jumping ship.