New Workout w/ Woody Kincaid & Abdihamid Nur 'Death Row Track Club'

Who named in death row? Mike Smith or Gordon Mack? Terrible, terrible name

Abdi and Luis were calling it that when they went pro.

U.S. T&F fans literally worshipped a club with a skull and crossbones logo fgs... I think a name (that we don't even know is legit yet really) paying homage to one of the most famous Record Labels in the history of music isn't the worst thing ever

The T cooldown concept is really interesting. I can see how it could help (I usually feel great after tempo workouts) and gets in some extra volume too

Good vid. Nice cameo of that doofus, Butchardt. Can’t stand that guy and his snarky attitude.

Luis was in Orlando doing Hoka promo for the Marathon Trials last week. I have it on good authority that he was quite inebriated Saturday night. That fact, paired with no racing or workout videos leads me to believe he's injured. Hopefully he can rebound for a good Olympics run. I'm a big fan.

Great video. Dying at Smith's accent generally and whatever the hell he's trying to do at ~15:22

Agreed, but I thought it was interesting that the rest wasn't exact. I don't know about all of them, but on one of the first reps they were supposed to have 7m rest, and they didn't start till like 7:15. I remember hearing about Ben Thomas having Coop/Cole doing super specific things during rests, and being very exact about length and stuff. I also remember the New Gen videos during Summer 2020, and the people saying Teare wasn't gonna be good because they were walking/stopping sometimes during their runs. Interesting how being a bit loose and being incredibly precise both result in world class runners.

Looks like this video was probably before the 5k at BU based on smiths language about trying to get a few time standards in the future. nurs vs kincaids workout seems to correlate with how they raced at BU (nur a second per 400 ahead of kincaid). Will be interesting how the 10k goes in March. Wonder if Woody will pull it together this year or if last year was a perfect storm of residual bowerman training/solo training/mike smith training for his indoor race. Nur seems like he should do well at 10k but again luis did not hold on last year. I think death row is a cringy name. Its great to see some real pro workouts.

In Diljeet's defense, they captured a quasi-race time trial workout. Energy is going to be intentionally super-high, but yeah seems she is less Zen than Mike Smith.

I took the timing for this workout to be about 2 weeks before BU or thereabouts. Woody's race and post-race comments make more sense now. He was like I simply have to get in better shape to run with the top guys. Maybe he thought Abdi was in 12:55 type shape around this time, so being a little off it was not much of a bad sign.

I think it'd be different if they were doing a workout where the rest period was a limiting factor, which this seems not to have been. If you are already getting 7 minutes rest then 15 extra seconds is not a big deal, but if you only get 60 sec then it matters much more. I would bet Mike is a bit less relaxed about rest intervals if they are much shorter.

He sounds like 88% 1970s FM radio deejay mixed with 12% middle-class-white-guy-trying-to-be-a-rapper.

when I watched, I felt like this was in response to the last video haha

Luis is entered in the 3k today at the UW Husky Classic.

Reading IG tea leaves, he's been running the last few weeks, but was definitely cross-training before then.

He's 31, so you can't really attribute any modest falloff this season to anything related to his training. Not with confidence.

It is interesting to compare the two Diljeet Taylor BYU videos, time trials at 3k, 1600, 1200, and a later workout, to this Mike Smith (Woody/Abdi) video. Mike is very low key, almost comically low key, to try not to hype up the athletes early in a workout, according to his explanation. So, he leaves all that emotion out of it that you can get from a race at a crowded arena. They don't feel like they were in a race. They don't get too up or down from a workout. I think that's just the right approach. You don't want to be doing too many hero workouts where you are all out in the way that Diljeet's athletes are at the time trials. They are running really fast times at altitude. 3:14-15 for 1200m, 9:00 with a 70 opening in the 3k (would convert down to mid to upper 8:40s at sea level), and quick, maybe mid 4:30s in the 1600m. She is over the top and the athletes who have appeared in the two videos almost cowed and distraught throughout most of the work are all hugging each other with excitement. Woody, Abdi, and Mike, by contrast, fist bump casually and we hear only, 'well done, boys.' You have to reserve the excitement and the hero workouts for the rare occasions, if at all, before big championships.

he paced tonight so....

the same record label that encouraged a whole generation of youths to join gangs and participate in sinful activities.

there are plenty of other wholesome things to draw inspiration from. “Beach Boys Track Club” would have been my first choice.

you’re not wrong about the skill and crossbones logo, though. Good point.