Why would Alberto Salazar ask to see Andy Powell's training logs when I've heard Salazar writes the workouts for UO

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ex college coach wrote:

Has anyone seen this article:

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2015/04/thursday_morning_news_notes_li_17.html#incart_river

It says Salazar is so impressed with Powell that he's asked Powell to show him his training logs for indoors as he wants to know what they've been doing.

Ok, if that's true, how come so many of my ex coaching buddies of mine have told me that after the year Oregon didn't make NCAAs in xc, that they sat Powell down and said, "Ok from now on the workouts are coming from Alberto?"

Several ex coaching friends told me this. So who is full of it?

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Salazar wrote Rupp's workouts when he was at Oregon, but that's it. AlSal has nothing to do with the current Ducks distance crew in terms of day-to-day practice plans.

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billy77777777111 wrote:

Your friends. If they were to be coming from Alberto, then why would they not just hire him? What would be the point of keeping andy?

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You can write the workouts without knowing what was actually done in those workouts, which is what the training logs show.

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josephfishkin wrote:

Salazar wrote Rupp's workouts when he was at Oregon, but that's it. AlSal has nothing to do with the current Ducks distance crew in terms of day-to-day practice plans.

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josephfishkin wrote:

Salazar wrote Rupp's workouts when he was at Oregon, but that's it. AlSal has nothing to do with the current Ducks distance crew in terms of day-to-day practice plans.

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This. I've heard from a few coaches how they would plan and time Rupp's workout. "AlSal wrote Rupp's plan and over walkie-talkie communicated with whoever was timing the workout." That's a direct quote.

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The University of Oregon would not hire Alberto because of his negative past (and now current negative accounts).

Also, Powell is paid by Nike as well so he has 2 bosses :)

Or maybe , yet another crazy letsrun bunch of crap and Alberto doesn't write/plan the workouts.

I vote for this simple answer

Or maybe, Salazar if full of himself, an ego maniac, and a major control freak. Salazar's history is well known: wing nut.

I vote for the obvious answer.

Alberto is not writing the workouts for the Oregon team. Andy Powell has simply tweaked- albeit in a very minor fashion- Vin's program.

Turns out Mary Cain is the mastermind behind the scenes! She's been designing NOP's workouts for years! Salazar just hangs around the Rupp-certified saladbar all day and watches Netflix!

1. Powell has, over time, by his own testimony, called Salazar for advice. He'd be foolish not to: Salazar is a world-class coach and willing to help. In the past it has been a one-way street; but Salazar, like Ancient Rome, has always shown a willingness to learn from others and take what has been successful for them, and thus given Powell's success, Salazar wants to see if there's something in particular he could pick up and use.

2. Writing workouts for a large group of distance runners, many with different points of focus, some partially injured, some fully healthy, some in great shape, some in lesser shape, etc.--all of this is very time consuming at a place like Oregon, so the idea that Salazar has the time (to say nothing of the inclination) to be writing the workouts for Jenkins on the one hand and Leingang on the other, is a bit insane.

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ex college coach wrote:

Has anyone seen this article:

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2015/04/thursday_morning_news_notes_li_17.html#incart_river

It says Salazar is so impressed with Powell that he's asked Powell to show him his training logs for indoors as he wants to know what they've been doing.

Ok, if that's true, how come so many of my ex coaching buddies of mine have told me that after the year Oregon didn't make NCAAs in xc, that they sat Powell down and said, "Ok from now on the workouts are coming from Alberto?"

Several ex coaching friends told me this. So who is full of it?

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ex college coach wrote:

Has anyone seen this article:

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2015/04/thursday_morning_news_notes_li_17.html#incart_river

It says Salazar is so impressed with Powell that he's asked Powell to show him his training logs for indoors as he wants to know what they've been doing.

Ok, if that's true, how come so many of my ex coaching buddies of mine have told me that after the year Oregon didn't make NCAAs in xc, that they sat Powell down and said, "Ok from now on the workouts are coming from Alberto?"

Several ex coaching friends told me this. So who is full of it?

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Too see if he completed them all and times run for reps came to me after about 2 seconds

Sober up coach.