Throw out all the gidgets and gadgets, just put them both in an equal environment, no PEDs, no altitude differences, just relying on their own skills and attributes. Who ya gonna go with?
Throw out all the gidgets and gadgets, just put them both in an equal environment, no PEDs, no altitude differences, just relying on their own skills and attributes. Who ya gonna go with?
Salazar
Would you care to elaborate? I'm curious.
Alberto Salazar.
His approach to laying out a plan, both short term and long term, seems to be more in line with how I like to train. Maybe it's just easier for me to wrap my head around it. Wetmore to me has always seemed like a guy who is at his best training 15 guys the same way and seeing which 7 rise to the top.
In terms of personality, Salazar just seems more smiley. I know that may not be a coaching requirement for some people, but I have always run better under coaches that visibly show they are elated when I do well.
Full disclosure, I have met Salazar a few times and he is a genuinely nice guy. Very down to earth.
I've never met Wetmore, he just seems a little standoffish. To each his own, but I would not have to ponder the decision very long.
Salazar
Lenny Leonard wrote:
His approach to laying out a plan, both short term and long term, seems to be more in line with how I like to train. Maybe it's just easier for me to wrap my head around it. Wetmore to me has always seemed like a guy who is at his best training 15 guys the same way and seeing which 7 rise to the top.
In terms of personality, Salazar just seems more smiley. I know that may not be a coaching requirement for some people, but I have always run better under coaches that visibly show they are elated when I do well.
Full disclosure, I have met Salazar a few times and he is a genuinely nice guy. Very down to earth.
I've never met Wetmore, he just seems a little standoffish. To each his own, but I would not have to ponder the decision very long.
Their coaching situations are different, so that has to affect their approaches with their athletes to some degree. I think you need to consider Wetmore's approach with Simpson and Coburn to get a better "apples to apples" comparison with Salazar.
Heather Burroughs is a very important part of coaching Simpson and Coburn
Seems like you're mad he responded with "Salazar" and want to change his mind for him.
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Lenny Leonard wrote:His approach to laying out a plan, both short term and long term, seems to be more in line with how I like to train. Maybe it's just easier for me to wrap my head around it. Wetmore to me has always seemed like a guy who is at his best training 15 guys the same way and seeing which 7 rise to the top.
In terms of personality, Salazar just seems more smiley. I know that may not be a coaching requirement for some people, but I have always run better under coaches that visibly show they are elated when I do well.
Full disclosure, I have met Salazar a few times and he is a genuinely nice guy. Very down to earth.
I've never met Wetmore, he just seems a little standoffish. To each his own, but I would not have to ponder the decision very long.
Their coaching situations are different, so that has to affect their approaches with their athletes to some degree. I think you need to consider Wetmore's approach with Simpson and Coburn to get a better "apples to apples" comparison with Salazar.
Salazar.
Salazar is the type of coach who's more passionate about the sport and his athletes' success than even they are...which is saying a lot at the elite level.
Simpson and Coburn are both products of his college system. He coached a few dozen women during the years that they were at CU, and they were the ones that best responded to his style of training.
I would be a little apprehensive, since the odds are that I would be one of the guys that just gets chewed up and spit out the back in a Wetmore program.
wetmore system is survival of the fittest. Salazar is individual and scientific. No question. SALAZAR!
Hence why Coburn and Simpson are both built like Mac trucks.
I saw the Fifth Avenue Mile up close and personal on Saturday. Other than Laura Muir, Simpson is the entrant I would LEAST describe as being built like a Mac truck.
Salazar. After this Olympics I don't think there's a question who the best distance coach in the World is. Wetmore wouldn't be bad but Salazar is tops.
Seems like wrote:
Seems like you're mad he responded with "Salazar" and want to change his mind for him.
Consider this.... wrote:Their coaching situations are different, so that has to affect their approaches with their athletes to some degree. I think you need to consider Wetmore's approach with Simpson and Coburn to get a better "apples to apples" comparison with Salazar.
Not angry, but I think it needs to be looked at without letting their current situations alter your thoughts on their pure coaching skills. That being said, I have seen Wetmore take people from obscurity to greatness, which other than Rupp, Salazar cannot claim.
Consider this.... wrote:
Seems like wrote:Seems like you're mad he responded with "Salazar" and want to change his mind for him.
Not angry, but I think it needs to be looked at without letting their current situations alter your thoughts on their pure coaching skills. That being said, I have seen Wetmore take people from obscurity to greatness, which other than Rupp, Salazar cannot claim.
Salazar also can't coach the 800.
Grandma oukicks them both in training and cheesecake.
Did you miss what I wrote? The only way Wetmore took people from obscurity to greatness at was is because he started coaching them as 18-year olds, which is similar to what Salazar did with Rupp.
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