Triathletetoth wrote:
david wrote:
Can you explain just a bit. I am familiar with your athletes and your successes . . . I would appreciate your insight (just a little please :-)) on the issue.
Thank you,
Sam Long and Dan is an interesting topic and I am not sure they want to make it public (not saying it's true) but Sam Long is sponsored by Power BAR and we know Dan is basically a owner/sponsored/ basing all focus of training around selling a product that is competition to Power bar and of course says don't consume POWER BAR PRODUCTS. This was probably more an issue then a training program.
This is a fun tangent. Sam has shown himself to be pretty thin skinned to criticism. No insult there, but he seems to project a feeling of being under attack when the criticism mounts. When he gets praise and attention, he seems to be riding on cloud nine. Lately it's more of the latter.
But when you consider the time he signed up with Plews, for what, just a few weeks? You had all kinds of comments about Sam going keto. People were digging into him when he raced at Oceanside last year about needing more carbs *in the race* to his face. I think the fact that he felt pretty weak as he did some of Plews initial training in a carb depleted state (by the accounts to my recognition), you had Sam see the following:
1. He's struggling to post similar numbers to what he's done in the past during training and the big difference is he's not carb fueling as much.
2. He's struggling in the two races he did*.
3. He's getting mocked the entire time.
I think if he was getting mocked and winning, he wouldn't care. I think the fact that he was getting mocked brought a lot more attention to his results and he bailed ASAP. Now maybe, if he stayed the course, he could have converted over to a lower carb fueling during training and boosted those carbs in racing (if that's the Plews protocol?).
But it's obvious, that whatever he did worked for him.
* I think in both Miami and Oceanside 2023 Sam likely felt he capable of being better than every one of those athletes who placed above him. Perhaps with the exception of Leo Bergere, Sam has proven that to be true in all those cases.