Tinman Track Club? What happened?

Same old Boulder hangers-on crap.

Tinman decided he wanted to coach faster runners. Enter Alfred Chelanga, exit the "Tinman Track Club".

I was wondering the same. When I noticed Tom was also coaching a high school or junior high team and said to him "wow, I had no idea, you're coaching a lot of people!" He responded seeming overwhelmed "yeah, too many."

Sad, but some athletes on that group could certainly write workouts for all of them just as well.

I guess nothing goes undiscovered at LRC.

Yes, Tinman and "Tinman Track Club" split up (I know it sounds weird). I heard from a semi-credible source based in Boulder that Tinman wanted to "migrate" some TTC runners into Tinman Elite, while leaving others behind.

Some TTC runners, like Tansey Lystad set several state records and Tinman deemed them to be ready to join TME in the new planned female division. Then there was a huge back-and-forth, resulting into:

Tinman unfollowing Tansey Lystad, Evan Schwartz, Tinman Track Club and other members on their respective Instagram pages.

Lystad, Schwartz (Evan), TTC unfollowing coach Tinman on his Instagram, and rebranding Tinman Track Club into "The Track Club". Lystad apparently decided to stick with her training partners.

Tinman deciding not to coach the club and many athletes anymore.

TTC is officially dead and Tinman is not involved in the business of the new TTC anymore. I assume the Tinman Track Club website will be taken down in near future.

Source is connected to one of the TTC runners, but there is also a lot of gossiping going on in T&F so the full story would need to be told by either Tinman himself or an actual TTC athlete.

Very unprofessional of them

Who are the members of this "Track Club" and what are their PRs?

Oh no, someone unfollowed someone! This is a tragedy of untold proportion! How will the world continue?

Dairyland wrote:

Very unprofessional of them

Lol, unprofessional, like the competition status of all but one of Tinmans runners

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

Oh no, someone unfollowed someone! This is a tragedy of untold proportion! How will the world continue?

This is what nobodies do in the absence of true clout.

The real questions now are:

1. Did the ball stop rolling?

2. Will they still do CV training or is that trademark infringement?

I’ll write everyone here a Tinman training plan and I won’t even charge you $200 a month for it!

Several of the members of the former Tinman Track Club, myself included, moved to Boulder under the guise that we would be joining Tinman Elite, a claim not based in any truth made by Tom. We ended up forming Tinman Track Club, which was a team of full-time working professionals training to qualify for the Olympic Trials on the road and the track.

There were several reasons Tinman Track Club decided to move on, but I don’t feel it is necessary to air dirty laundry on this forum. Focusing on following/unfollowing on social media is petty drama (and for the record I did not unfollow Tom).

Speaking personally, it was time for me to go another direction in my career. I am thankful to Tom for the progress I made in the two years I worked with him- 2020 results for whoever asked about PRs: 7th USA XC, 6th Pan Am Championships, 9:18 3k in Boulder, 16:09 5k in Boulder, and 15:41 5k in LA in December. I don’t have a professional contract, and I work full-time as a high school teacher. Running is something that I love to do, and adds balance to my life.

We rebranded the Instagram page to “The Track Club” because it was a fun project that we had spent quite a bit of time and effort on, and wanted to keep the integrity of our community-based mindset going forward, regardless of what team we landed on in the future.

I don’t think this “news” is really noteworthy or worth a thread, but wanted to set the record straight based on some of the misinformation posted above.

Thanks for posting. Ignore the idiots. I wish you all the best for the future my man ?

Website says they have 9 national champions? And this isn't tinman elite?

Tinman elite I can't think of any national champions they have or has Drew Hunter won 1?

hawaii5-0 wrote:

Tinman elite I can't think of any national champions they have or has Drew Hunter won 1?

Drew Hunter (US Indoor 2M), Sam Parsons (German Indoor 3K), Jordan Gusman (Malta.. cant remember the event), Brogan Austin (US Mara Champs)... maybe they're counting the XC Team Title?...

Other than that I know Aaron Templeton came runner up at US road 5K and Coleman has placed 3rd at British Champs SC, plus they had the US Triathlete but I cant remember if maybe he got some title in Tri? nvm

I suspect we'll see the Lost Collection drop soon, a bunch TTC gear that is limited run never to be produced again. Extremely rare and exclusive.

But who unfollowed who first?

Lots more gear coming your way. Crew necks and Ciele hats next. Need one?

I hear the crewneck top will soften the blackest of trolls hearts.

That's it, I've unfollowed all of you.