Buff's Mark Wetmore: "Check your instruments!!"

Are you certain that's what he said? If so, maybe it's code for something else that he didn't want the competition to understand, or maybe it meant nothing but was designed to get into the heads of their competitors. Wetmore's pretty clever, so there's no telling what that could have been about.

0/10. Nonsense.They do not recruit foreign runners so the OP misheard Wetmore. He said "Check for insurgents." CU runs a tight ship. Domestic and foreign terrorism and illegal immigration are frowned upon on its home cross country course.

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Are you certain that's what he said? If so, maybe it's code for something else that he didn't want the competition to understand, or maybe it meant nothing but was designed to get into the heads of their competitors. Wetmore's pretty clever, so there's no telling what that could have been about.

"Check you instruments!" Is believed to be a racial slur. It not not clear to whom the slur is aimed at but it is definitely racial. It's origins are thought to have formed in northern Ireland around 1200 B.C.

This thread reminds me of the game, Balderdash.

Al Sharpton,

Totally makes sense. The town he started coaching in, Bernardsville, NJ, had ZERO black people. (of course, until Mike Tyson bought a mansion several years later where he would beat his wife and admit to it on Barbara Walters)..

Wetmore is a product of lilly white Bernards teams, lilly white coaches, lilly white clipboards and trite littly white psyche up phrases like "check your instruments." Doesn't make him any less of an amazing XC and Steeple coach...

Wetmore is a good part Native American.

I saw him when he had short hair at Bernards. Way, way back. The chin was even more prominent in those days. Looked slightly native American.

I was there. He said "chug your supplements." They stay in shape by only taking in what's essential via supplementation. Solid food is the reward of a national championship only.

Wetmore suffers from PTSD. He was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. Right before his plane got hit he shouted "check your instruments!". Sometime he has flashbacks during races when a CU Runner falls behind in races. Wetmore has been known to: 1. Tackle other runners on the course when he feels the Buffs are in danger of losing. 2. Shout "Me love you long time" at the finish line. Hope this helps.

They received thermometers from a supermarket in Boulder where they were to place them on their scrotums because Wetmore wanted to continually monitor the temperatures throughout the race.

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They received thermometers from a supermarket in Boulder where they were to place them on their scrotums because Wetmore wanted to continually monitor the temperatures throughout the race.

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Thread of the year or what?

I don't know, but I've been told...

Mark Wetmore always wants his runners to be well balanced during the given workout. Too much Anaerobic work can hurt stamina and it is important to "Check your instruments" and make sure the balance is correct. Of course, not enough lactate makes you slow at NCAA's. I can't remember exactly, but I think twisting the left nipple during the run the proper instrument for increasing lactate production. Things could have changed since I was there though.

Wetmore's training is very intense, leading to a significant risk of runners' instruments falling off during workouts. This happened to Jimmy Simpson years ago when he ran for Colorado. Fortunately, the performance loss caused by losing your instruments is slightly outweighed by the benefits of switching to the women's division. Unfortunately, Caster Semenya has never been coached by Wetmore.

Ode to Wetmore:

"Check Your Instruments"

Sometimes I look around and see

A tadpole, a fish or a flea

As Lactate starts to build I am reminded:

Check your instruments!

Running fast and running free,

Once a got stung by a bee,

Dog barking softly in the distance:

Check your instruments!

As I run swift and far,

I might get harassed by dog or car,

Quiet skinny, pale and weak:

Check your instruments!

Aerobic base, too far, be gone,

Took a dump in someone's lawn,

Quietly gone into the night:

Check your instruments!

Final race I'm digging deep

The joker says you're just a freak,

Satisfaction comes undone:

Check your instruments!

As we all know Coach Mark Wetmore is meticulous in his preparations. These instruments include (but are not limited to) a reliable GPS watch, nasal Breathe-rite strips, 80x sunscreen, two-bottle fanny pack, arm warmers, gels, nipple guard band-aids, anti-chafing cream, iPod, hand-held water bottles and one ripe banana for potassium of course.

"Check your instruments" is a phrase coaches use when it is time for a "gut check" in a race.