Sheila Reid to OTC Elite

There's not a lot happening in Newmarket.

waffles and jam wrote:

Why make the move?

what kind of dumb ass question is that?

If true she'll certainly be diagnosed with a thyroid condition shortly.

Saul Goodman wrote:

If true she'll certainly be diagnosed with a thyroid condition shortly.

Not unless she joins NOP

Sheila crushed Jordan for two years but I bet Jordan got like twice the money as Sheila....

I wonder what happened to Uhl as well. She left Jerry to go back to her college coach but he has left Iowa. Wonder if she will finish her vet degree.

Reid made a smart decision. Villanova doesn't have a group pro runners like Providence.

Jerk Faced Jerk wrote:

She's really cute. Nike will make a lot of money putting her face on stuff. She will get elite training. Its a win win. She should train with Shalane.

If she wanted to train with Shalane she probably would have joined Shalane's team.

Why make the move?

This is surprising. OTC is like the minor leagues as compared to Alberto's and Jerry's groups. Hard to figure out. Any ideas out there?

Who is better in those two groups than Sally k? World and Olympic silver makes her a better runner than either of those groups have on the ladies side.

I don't think it's quite accurate to say that OTC is "minor leagues." A recently departed member of the crew left for Seattle only after earning a nice bit of hardware at Moscow WC's.

Yes, the crew has some athletes who many not follow in Symmonds' footsteps, but so does every training group out there--medals wouldn't be prestigious if they weren't rare.

I've said this before, but I think it deserves saying again: I think Rowland is the most underrated elite coach in the U.S. right now. Unlike Salazar and Schumacher, he has had very few big collegiate/professional names come under his tutelage. But he has seen plenty of success from the athletes he's trained: Symmonds is the obvious example, but I would also put Jordan McNamera, Tyler Mulder, and Julia Lucas in the same category. These are all runners who were successful in college, but not quite the stars that people like Jager, Rupp, Teg, Centro, and the like. The improvement they've enjoyed under Rowland, in my eyes, is just as impressive, if not more so, than the improvement and success of runners under Schumacher and Salazar.

More to the point, though, is that I think between the 3 big Nike Oregon training groups, OTC *is* the right one for Sheila. Rowland is a very good coach, and he's an extremely good middle distance one. While Salazar and Schumacher have had some success in coaching 1500 runners, their principale emphases remain upon long distances. Sheila is talented enough to flourish anywhere, but my sense is that Rowland's training is more properly "middle distance," as opposed to "long distance," and as such will more properly "mesh" with and build upon the training she enjoyed at Villanova.

Here is Sheila telling all the haters to shut their pie holes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000540464568/2ca1c4c0b562e341708e6d85f6cddebb.jpeg

butiebut wrote:

This is surprising. OTC is like the minor leagues as compared to Alberto's and Jerry's groups. Hard to figure out. Any ideas out there?

No it's not. Nick Symmonds was in OTC Elite until this year.

What is Jerry's group called?

Jerk Faced Jerk wrote:

She should train with Shalane.

No.

v6 wrote:

What is Jerry's group called?

DNSDNF

I wouldn't kick her out of my bed :)

Quickly! wrote:

What ever happened to Lisa Uhl??

She retired from High Performance. Still an elite runner.

Saul Goodman wrote:

If true she'll certainly be diagnosed with a thyroid condition shortly.

student of the sport wrote:

Not unless she joins NOP

True. Got my acronyms F'd up for a bit there.