How does Adams State do it?

I like the temperature comparisons. Here's mine

8 PM mountain. December 1st 2013

Alamosa: 0 F

Fort McMurray, Northern Alberta: 18 F

Grand Prairie, Alberta: -1 F

Bonners Ferry, Northern Idaho: 37 F

Eureka Montana: 35 F

Whitehorse Canada: -9 F

Only places I can find significantly colder are fairbanks at -22 F, Yakutsk Siberia at -26 F, amd Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Canada at -13 F.

Not even pitch dark Kiruna Sweden, the northernmost city in Sweden comes close.

So basically at this given moment Alamosa is probably one of the top 20 coldest cities in the WORLD if you lump all the tiny Siberian villages together. Thats crazy. I don't have data but it might be the coldest place in the world at its latitude of 38 degrees north. All the places I found that are colder are approaching the arctic circle.

Nobody in Alamosa is running at 3 AM when it's -20F but it's definitely harsh even during the day im sure.

We do sections of our runs indoors if it's really cold. We will probably do it a lot more with the big new indoor track bubble. Probably will be more of a training tool than a competition facility. We don't have any magic resistance to cold. I know I personally despise running in a ton of warm gear and having cold fingers but you get used to it. Unfortunately the serious cold has come early this year. It doesn't change your natural level of toughness. It just teaches you to block out discomfort and train well even when it's not ideal conditions which leads to consistency and improvement. Also training partners dealing with the same thing makes it easier. Amazing training weather in alamosa the other half of the year makes up for the cold.

There's your inside scoop. lol, EPO. Does that stand for Everybody Pounds Out mileage? Then yes, we do it year round at Adams.

old 2nd hand info wrote:

Also, lots of mileage. I don't know if it's still true, but it used to be that you had to show up before the season started and be able to run 10 mi. in 55:00 in Alamosa if you even wanted to train with the team.

That wasn't true in 1983. We had 30 guys on the team and I was near the back. We did the one lappers and mile repeats but the other days us slow kids just did what mileage we could which wasn't close to what the varsity was doing.

Gunnison is typically colder. And western has never has any sort of indoor track... Adams track was crap at 140m but Western had nothing.

Now they both are opening new 200m tracks this year.

Bump

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Are Masterson and Florez times from altitude? Have a hard time thinking those are sea level times for guys that are as fast as they are now. Not unheard of, but still would show big improvement.

I think Masterson's high school PR was closer to 4:27,I don't think his 3200 PR was under 9:40 either. Did not race at altitude, he is from northeast, Ohio. I think he may have had an injury (stress fracture) as a senior during track.

Masterson is hurt again this year. He was training for a comeback, he has to have knee surgery again. Poor man. The rest of the team looks poised to win nationals. Jovanny Godinez ran a 1:06 marathon over the weekend in Los Angeles - good for second place.

Im actually really interested in adams state. Iv looked up a lot of information and they are just very good at developing athletes.they also have a pretty cool series on flotrack.

Jayne wrote:

Masterson is hurt again this year. He was training for a comeback, he has to have knee surgery again. Poor man. The rest of the team looks poised to win nationals. Jovanny Godinez ran a 1:06 marathon over the weekend in Los Angeles - good for second place.

Damn first sub hour marathon and it's way under 2. Wheres the excitement?

Having run with and known Kyle for many years, two knee surgeries won't keep that man down. Guess I'll be cheering for Ashland only this year. Brian Baumer is gonna have to respresent this year.

comeone wrote:

They have talent. And they have coaching.

Here's a breakdown of their top guys and what they ran before getting to Adams (HS or otherwise specified):

Kevin Batt- 14:04 5k

Tabor Stevens- 1:53 and 4:22 at altitude in HS

Jovanny Godinez- 9:53 2-mile in HS

Naseem Haje- 15:06/31:11 5k/10k in college

Kyle Masterson -4:25 HS miler

Julian Florez- 4:26 HS miler

Chandler Reid- 4:19 HS miler at altitude

They combine some talent, and a lot of hard work.

It's impressive. I think the altitude works to their advantage, as well as the tradition. And the fact that they have like like 30+ guys on the team!

Yes.

When you have 30+ guys running 14:30 and under, you'll have a strong and deep team

I have heard they have begun experimenting with tripling some of their guys lately.

Also with fapping vigorously between intervals to keep the heart rate up and secrete some adrenaline.

MoneyMayweather wrote:

I have heard they have begun experimenting with tripling some of their guys lately.

Also with fapping vigorously between intervals to keep the heart rate up and secrete some adrenaline.

+1

Seriously tho, what training fpeogram do they follow? What do they do that's different?

In all seriousness, I have heard that some upperclassmen will triple once a week through the early months of the season.

The idea of doing a triple, even just once a week, is absolute insanity. Athletes doing that amount of mileage would have to use magic to stay injury free. Not to mention the breakdown of the muscles, they would practically have to be eating themselves. And don't get me started on how it would hedge the integrity of the Achilles. My rule #1 is to never do that much beating on my body.

AboutBillionsBroner wrote:

The idea of doing a triple, even just once a week, is absolute insanity. Athletes doing that amount of mileage would have to use magic to stay injury free. Not to mention the breakdown of the muscles, they would practically have to be eating themselves. And don't get me started on how it would hedge the integrity of the Achilles. My rule #1 is to never do that much beating on my body.

They do use magic. They have obtained the secret Kenyan recipes for Ugali and Sukuma Wiki, plus the usual triple consists of the traditional Kenyan workout of chasing down a free range chicken to put in the stew pot.

MoneyMayweather wrote:

I have heard they have begun experimenting with tripling some of their guys lately.

Also with fapping vigorously between intervals to keep the heart rate up and secrete some adrenaline.

IF that is true @MoneyMayweather, then what do the women do in between their intervals?