Catts
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Post by Catts on Feb 15, 2004 22:56:53 GMT -5
Looks like ahutch is getting some good press down DC way: washingtontimes.com/sports/20040215-020323-6531r.htmAm I right in reading that you're training with the Centrowitz group? If so, how is that group. Those American kids have impressed me over the past few years. |
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Post by ahutch on Feb 16, 2004 17:14:31 GMT -5
Catts, thanks for digging up that article -- it'll make my mom's day. I would have expected it from MJD, but I guess you've got internet superpowers too...
Yeah, I've been training with the Centrowitz group since I moved down here (just over two years). I'd have to agree that the results from the American University kids have been very impressive. They have something like 0.5 scholarships to offer, so they typically manage to get a couple 4:20 milers in -- and consistently produce low to mid 3:40 guys. The program is still pretty new -- O'Brien, who was 4th at NCs last year in 3:41, was the very first recruit (as a 4:20 miler, no less).
There's a decent crew of post-collegiates that also train with the group -- my main training partner is Pete Sherry (an old man, but still kicked my ass with 13:42 last summer). There are also 3 or 4 guys who made US Olympic Marathon Trials, so they keep the endurance stuff honest, and the AU milers (damn their young legs) keep the speed work sharp. Throw in Oly finalist Marc Davis (who's coaching but also making a tentative comeback), and you always have someone to run with.
The training is very much old-school Oregon hard-easy -- our workout days are very long and hard, but Mon-Wed-Fri is as easy as you need. As for Centro himself...find me at a meet this summer and I'll tell you some tales! (McInnes has already heard most of these tales, so he can give you a flavour...)
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Post by SI on Feb 16, 2004 19:01:32 GMT -5
Do you ever cross paths with Jim Hage down there? He's old. Sherry's a kid. Writes for the Post (running and opera I think if you can believe it). He used to put out a thing called Running Ranting and Racing that was fall on the floor funny. He was(is?) a reasonably good masters runner and pretty sure he was a trials qualifier in the day. Anyway, he strikes me as an interesting guy to run an easy 10 miles with.
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Post by ahutch on Feb 16, 2004 20:04:55 GMT -5
SI -- yep, Jim Hage is a pretty familiar sight at running events around here. I don't know him (don't do much road stuff), but most of the guys I train with do. He had a really interesting cover story in the Washington City Paper last year on a Russian (sports) agent who lives in the area with a stable of Russian distance studs. Definitely worth a read if you didn't see it before: www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/2003/cover0912.html |
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Post by SI on Feb 16, 2004 20:16:09 GMT -5
He had a really interesting cover story in the Washington City Paper last year on a Russian (sports) agent who lives in the area with a stable of Russian distance studs. Definitely worth a read if you didn't see it before: Good piece. Interesting that he quotes Scott Douglas. He put out RRR a while with him and he is another funny guy. www.scottdouglas.biz/ |
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