What kind of training style does coach Mark Wetmore have his Colorado athletes do? Are they mielage based? Do they do much speed? Is it all about altitude? What is their secret to success?
What kind of training style does coach Mark Wetmore have his Colorado athletes do? Are they mielage based? Do they do much speed? Is it all about altitude? What is their secret to success?
No secret. Just miles an hard work.
No secret.
Old Man Mags is the secret.
It seems to me that Colorado was a more mature team than most of the other contenders. I believe that on the women's side, Stanford is very young and on the men's side, Oregon is almost all freshmen. When these two programs have more upper classmen/women on their teams, the worm will turn. It is a cyclical sport by nature. That said, who can argue that Mark Wetmore is not a very good coach?
The Web Master wrote:
It seems to me that Colorado was a more mature team than most of the other contenders. I believe that on the women's side, Stanford is very young and on the men's side, Oregon is almost all freshmen. When these two programs have more upper classmen/women on their teams, the worm will turn. It is a cyclical sport by nature. That said, who can argue that Mark Wetmore is not a very good coach?
He has had up and down years, but most every program does. For the most part, he has done well with the talen he's gotten, though there have certainly been some big name runners somewhat flop there (again, that could be said about nearly any program).
As far as I can tell, their program is mileage and tempo based with some hills and some VO2 max work, but mileage and tempo work make up the bulk of their training. Anyone should be decent after a few years of high mileage, long steady runs and threshold work. I don't understand why more program don't train this way instead of trying to hammer athletes with intervals every season to try and squeeze everything they can out of that single season without thinking long term. Learn from the best.
Andersonz wrote:
What kind of training style does coach Mark Wetmore have his Colorado athletes do? Are they mielage based? Do they do much speed? Is it all about altitude? What is their secret to success?
There are rules against fielding 7 Africans
CU definitely has it down with WC gold medalists Mary Decker and Jenny Barringer, WC bronze medalist Kara Wheeler, etc. Also give credit to NYC Marathon winner Meb Keflegizi of UCLA, Denna Drossin of U Arkansas, Duke University bronze medalist Shannon Rowbury, North Carolina U's bronze medalist Shlane Flanagan, 7-time medalist Bernard lagat of Washington St U, etc. U.S. distances are back and we have the medals now to prove that statement.
High School PRs of the Pac 12 Champs
3rd Medina 4:16/9:13 at altitude (He was pretty good)
6th Wacker 4:16/9:19
9th Bosshard 9:12
13th Thompson 4:22/9:24
15th Moussa 4:08/8:49/14:05 (Outlier to the point of this post)
22nd Medina 4:26/9:30 at altitude
28th Theroux 4:14/9:13
Would you guess that team would win won of the deeper conferences in the country?
Hard work through long high end aerobic running every Sunday (Sub 6 miles for 15 to 20 miles for the varsity guys at 5000-9000 feet elevation) and two other quality days a week. That's their recipe for success. No secret.
We be BACK wrote:
CU definitely has it down with WC gold medalists Mary Decker and Jenny Barringer, WC bronze medalist Kara Wheeler, etc. Also give credit to NYC Marathon winner Meb Keflegizi of UCLA, Denna Drossin of U Arkansas, Duke University bronze medalist Shannon Rowbury, North Carolina U's bronze medalist Shlane Flanagan, 7-time medalist Bernard lagat of Washington St U, etc. U.S. distances are back and we have the medals now to prove that statement.
Mary Decker? She lasted one semester.
"Mary Decker? She lasted one semester"
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My thoughts exactly. Since Mary Decker (800/1500 runner) is mentioned, where is Matt Centrowitz in this list? He is the most recent WC medal winner for the US
dumb as bricks wrote:
Mary Decker? She lasted one semester.
she was there for more than one semester
Talent, hard work and the altitude.
ummmm! Which rule(s)?
It has nothing to do with coaching (yeah right). I know this because I picked it up on another thread defending Salazar as a marathon coach.
clean air and anything over 5,280feet will help you.
Read "Running with the Buffaloes". Wetmore's program is laid out pretty plainly there.
God of Letsrun wrote:
StatingObvious wrote:Read "Running with the Buffaloes". Wetmore's program is laid out pretty plainly there.
the program where every runner is injured in the end and one guy even loses his life
Yeah, because his program involves riding a bike at high speeds down a mountain and into a car, you idiot.
What a jerk.
It's gotta be genetics.
What is interesting about your post, JMSMITH, is that you're implying that Colorado's talent relative to Stanford, Oregon, etc is lacking, but Wetmore makes up the difference in his coaching ability and his kid's desire to work hard. I agree with your point that Wetmore is a great coach and his kids put in the work... but don't necessarily agree that his guys are any less talented then the sub 9:00 guys we've become accustomed to. The recent influx of sub 9:00 2-milers has skewed our perception of talented high school runners. But 4:15/9:15 is still really really solid.
I would take a 4:15/9:15 guy off of 40 miles per week over a 4:10/8:55 guy on 80 a week every day and twice on Sunday. 4:15/9:15 is ample talent to making an NCAA D1 top 10 team. The fact that these guys are looked at as scrubs is mind-boggling to me. There are a lot of good guys out there that a smart coach can do unbelievable things with.
Wetmore proves this time and time again.