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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Has anyone seen this article:
http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2015/04/thursday_morning_news_notes_li_17.html#incart_riverIt 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?