Woody Kincaid on Why He Left Bowerman Track Club 

Kincaid is leaving due to intimidation from Paul Chelimo. Dude is scared.

i don’t know much but think he said in a interview that he does lot of double thresholds, and bowerman doesn’t do that

@@jon5173 So many training philosophies out there. I personally am not a fan of training off of metrics. It's too mechanical and takes the spirit of it away

Calm down woody you’re trash please leave bowerman club

I haven’t watched this video but he’s talked about it. Jerry makes a plan he thinks is right and most people have to follow that or fall off. Jerry is known to do big volume threshold workouts (such as 10 mile tempos or 10 miles worth of 1-2 mile repeats at threshold. I often see ~4:40s from his guys but obviously don’t have exact details. I know they also hammer speed but I think much of it is at the end of big threshold sessions. Some workouts I’ve seen are: 10 miles of threshold reps, 4 mile tempo + 4xmile @ 10k, 4 mile tempo + 3x(800, 400, 400) @ 5k ish. I think the main difficulty is just the volume of the workouts and the lack of adjustments on bad days. Mike smith is known for volume as well but it sounds like he’s gotten pretty big into double threshold workouts (splitting the volume up, often to get more volume in an easier on the legs manner. Woody has mentioned doing 6 miles of T in the morning and 6 miles of T in the evening. Something they never did at bowerman. Other than that, most pro teams have similar philosophies these days. Focus heavily on the aerobic side and work hard. The creativeness and ability to work with the specific athlete is often the difference between coaching groups at that level. I think Woody just wanted more flexibility in his training and to not be thrown into the meat grinder with 23 year olds as he ventures into his 30s.

Listen to the Citius Mag’s interview with Mike Smith, his new coach. You’ll quickly get an idea of what he’s about and why so many people want to train with him.

Nike

Woody is sponsored by Nike. They pay for everything. He does not have another job outside of running.

@@letsrundotcom Many thanks. I'm completely ignorant of all that info. I don't live in the States now so my info access is limited. I wish Woody the best of fortune. Cheers.

I was thinking the same thing lol

Interesting. I've got a huge screen and the video software puts everyone on it in rectangles. Everyone is below the camera for me so if I'm looking at them on the screen I'm not looking at the camera. I'll think of another way to do this. Using a smaller monitor might help make it look like I'm looking at camera. Jon's using his laptop so maybe I go back to that. -Wejo

...and the Africans are the ones with the world records, own the roads and also the gold medals.