Ed Eyestone

It was cool to see all of the groups.

I don't know how Ed Eyestone does it.

Yeah.

I asked him how many people he coaches, and I can't remember what he said anymore.

I like that.

I mean, it's the window through YouTube to like that BYU group is, you know, you have Clayton talking about data and then you have Ed Eyestone kind of like, uh-huh.

Yeah, exactly.

Cool story, bro.

You guys are actively defending that velocity at VO2 max pretty late into the program.

I know Connor Mance has talked about this with some of the stuff that Ed Eyestone had done with the folks working with him where It was just like a little bit more of that near the end of a training plan than what we'd seen some marathon training plans where they would maybe pull back a little bit on that in an effort to free up training load for things a little more specific to their marathon intensity.

But I mean, at the end of the day, you guys are running at such a high percentage of your VO2 max on race day.

It's like you can only separate so much before it starts compromising your ceiling enough to make a difference, I'm sure.

The marathoners are incredible out here.

Obviously, Ed Eyestone has a great group of athletes, and just dropping in on their workout was super cool to see and valuable and, uh, gave us a little bit behind the sc- behind the scenes of where Clayton's at in his training right now, and it's an exciting time.

And I feel like we're talking about him like he's not here.

Yeah.

I think it was this idea that, um, being on a team made me an incredible athlete.

Um, like I said, I didn't - I, I look back and I laugh at how naive I was, like how much I didn't know, and I just happened to be part of a great team and to have a great coach.

And I looked at BYU and Ed Eyestone was a phenomenal coach.

Timo Mostert, who also went to BYU briefly, my, my high school coach, also spoke really highly of him, and, and so that was the best endorsement I needed.

Strong, strong tradition at BYU with cross-country having won multiple national championships.

Ed Eyestone does a great thing on the men's side of things.

Diljit Taylor does hers on the women's.

And the hope is that come the end of the season, despite them being ranked fourth and ninth in the case of BYU women and men, they come to the end of the season, they're hoisting some hardware, which means they're number one at the end of the year.

So like you say, it's a bit of a mix and it certainly can't do any harm.

For me, it was interesting as well when you hear the likes of Ed Eyestone talking about it in the same hand, like when we had that interview with him and he mentioned bicarb alongside super shoes when we were talking about how things have innovation that's taken running forward in the, in recent times.

So I think these products that you are consuming are changing, but the reality is it's a one o- once off incremental shift.

We're looking to try and constantly get fitter.

It's just consistency of work over time is going to produce results.

byu's head coach ed eyestone's got the quote uh c squared equals e squared um so consistent competence equals eventual excellence i love that quote i think it's great i think that's just that's what you try to drill into kids and it applies to not just the running and the volume and all of that but also the strength and conditioning side yeah like it's not like we have to go find the newest 16 exercises and we're going to change everything just be consistent about working on your core competencies your core areas build the foundational strength go do the foundational work from a running standpoint you're going to end up in a pretty good spot and if you can build that consistency you're going to have a program at some point

yeah That's my job.

That's my spiel.