Joshua McDougal at Peachtree!

Sagarin wrote:

Heck, he might even be able to approach his old PR, which while soft for him relative to his 5k PR, would be incredible.

... later this year. Hard to see how anyone could be critical of McDougal's race yesterday. He's training much smarter than he used to too.

Good result for Josh. Hard to compare Rupp with Josh right now. To do so is like kicking someone when they are not at their best. My hope is that Josh continues to gain fitness and recapture his greatness as a runner.

He was fired from his assistant coaching job at Liberty once he began focusing more on his running than coaching.

Keep god out of track and field, he has bigger issues to deal with.

The handle is joke. It refers to when Ryan Hall switched from his "faith based coaching" to Renato Canova.

You do know that Peachtree is not Rupp-certified, right?

High temp usually in the 90s and humid with hills in Georgia in July. This was an extremely encouraging return for McDougal, who was that very rare Christian who never thumped us over the head about it, unlike Hall. And he worked extremely hard, ran fast throughout a real xc season, and was able to beat Rupp at nationals xc, so we all like McDougal.

Great to see. He has lots of talent. His old training Reminded me of Levins but. Ore singles . Perhaps he can run the marathon. I am not sure why people feel like they have to choose between him and Rupp. I think both have been great at different times. McD may have been hurt by the high mileage that also helped make him great . Rupp increased mileage more slowly.

Even if that is true assistant coaches should not be running practice anyway thats a head coaches job. Dumb move Liberty

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

Keep god out of track and field, he has bigger issues to deal with.

His faith kept him from giving up and McDougal is not one of those in-your-face Tim Tebow types. And Dennis, the next time you see Mo Farah drop to his knees to worship Allah after a track race, I want to hear you criticize him too. Idiot.

The weather was in the 60s and the dew point was in the 50s. A lot of guys ran road and track PR's yesterday. Encouraging result for sure, but the weather and the course wasn't an issue yesterday.

to be correct he is moving back to new york. He actually chose not to come back next year.

A friend of mine who is on the team is my source for this. I was told that while he is an incredible runner with vast amounts of knowledge he wasn't the greatest coach to his athletes as of recently. He also told me that while he did not run practices, the head coach made him responsible for paying attention to the distance guys' mileage and workouts. Essentially he was who they reported to after runs and he timed their workouts (under the discretion of the head coach). Apparently there were many days where he didn't even show up to practice period.

I was told he was let go but perhaps I misunderstood. Either way I am excited to see him running well!

Dude needs to spend less time and church and more time at the track (whether coaching or running).

Never was a fan of JoshMcD. Rubs religion in everyone's face. No thanks.

I hang with the team. McDougal did run the practices everyone in the community knows that. So obviously you do not have a friend on the team or you would too. I would not want to do my job and my bosses.

Anyone who does not root for Josh McDougal, just does not get this sport

A great come back story

Childish drama aside. He carries himself well seems to stay positive (from interviews). I have never heard him pushing religion... but am glad to see him doing well. Good first race.

Perhaps he can get within TWO minutes of Rupp's PB with appropriate training, in between prayer sessions.

coach d. wrote:

Perhaps he can get within TWO minutes of Rupp's PB with appropriate training, in between prayer sessions.

I was always told that cockroaches only come out at night. I believe that now.