Conner Mantz injured?

That’s not good

Hope he can shake it out off ,

he just needs to increase the Geritol uptake

glute/hip/back spells trouble

Possible he's just been on holiday and not updating, given the time of year? I also hope he's doing well, and if there have been any problems that they're not serious. It's been really impressive to follow his racing and training progress on the blog (he also comes across as a very nice person).

We were given 2 weeks break, not BYU but maybe he needed it.

Wait a couple of weeks and see if he has ran in any of the early season indoor meets.

The lead up to the (supposed) lower back/hip injury:

Dec 16 - 19.9 miles easy (6+14)

Dec 17 - 17 miles, including 5x1200 in 3:15-3:20 (burning calves, no strides/speed workout in the last weeks), (11+6)

Dec 18 - 18.1 miles, the evening session was "quicker than should have" (guess MP), (12+6)

Dec 19 - 19.8 miles, including 10 miles in 49:25 (4:55 pace) with the team, "tough, felt dead rest of the day" (16+4)

Dec 20 - 15.1 miles easy (5+10)

Dec 21 - 20 miles LR, including last miles in 5:05, 5:03, 4:58. Hip/lower back/glutes hurt severely afterwards.

So we got ~20 miles of running/day (140 mi/week) AFTER season break/time off, the first workout was 5x1200 in 3:15-3:20 without slowly introducing faster running like Farleks or strides first, easy runs were sometimes too fast and despite pain and "feeling dead" each day kept the same volume and intensity. Add to that a super hard tempo in cold weather AND a long run with fast finish and you got your injury.

Whoever designed this training needs to be fired, it's sad to see such talented runners being hammered down to death with crazy training because they feel like "MORE MORE MORE" and "HARDER HARDER HARDER" are the way to NCAA glory.

His training blog that he released 1-2 years ago was actually quite good and showed modest training, but ramping it up THAT hard is overkill even for such a talented/successful runner. He ran well on moderate training - why change it and make it crazy?

You embellished a bit. He recorded in his last entry, "Long run with Adam, James, and Mark. After 13 it was just Mark and I, and at 16 I started a 3 mile pickup, going 5:05, 5:03, 4:58. My lower back/hip started hurting after. Hopefully nothing too serious." He didn't use the words "severely hurt". He very well could be injured though and I've been wondering myself.

Nigel_Bikes wrote:

Wait a couple of weeks and see if he has ran in any of the early season indoor meets.

Wasn’t he planning on running the Olympic marathon trials?

Clayton young confirmed that mantz has a stress fracture on Strava

Look in the comments

Clayton Young confirmed that mantz has a stress fracture.

Check the comments on his Strava

Stress fracture confirmed by Clayton young on Strava in the comments of his run

we heard ya the first time kiddo

This is just ridiculous. No wonder he's hurt. Plus his mechanics need A LOT of work.

The hard week posted was 110 miles which is in line with what he usually does. See

http://conner.fastrunningblog.com/blog-week-01-01-2019.html

It was a hard intensity week on way back to that milage after having two lower milage weeks after xc.

blamb61 wrote:

The hard week posted was 110 miles which is in line with what he usually does. See

You realize he takes 1 day off each week, so that mileage was actually done in 6 days? Basically he did 130 mpw with 1 day off. Tinman said countless times that a day off INCREASES the risk for injury, because he will feel stiff the day after and his mechanics might get sloppy. The body wants consistency.

Also, we just listed the running that he did - not even talking about the daily core sessions, hard gym workouts that might be done in the winter as well as cross-training.

He said in a recent interview he wanted to make the Olympic team and needs to run a 1:04 half and 2:19 marathon - his target race was a half in January, where he wanted to break 1:04. That's why his mileage/volume is so insane right now, but his coaches should have asked themselves if they really needed to make it so much volume/intense or if there are other ways to sub 1:04 for a talented runner with 13:29/28:18 PRs.

shakzbsbsbnavAJkaz wrote:

Stress fracture confirmed by Clayton young on Strava in the comments of his run

Stress fracture where? If in the foot, will heal a lot faster than if in sacrum or somewhere near hip.

Volume was not out of line from what he normally has been doing even if only training 6 days per week (although he was ramping back to his normal volume after two weeks easy). Intensity more than what he was recently doing after short break. Volume at intensity higher than nornal. Overall milage not abnornal. Don't know about cross tng.