Rod Murrow, JD

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This is a classic post hoc ergo propter hoc logic fallacy. Correlation isn’t the same as causation.

@RodMurrow @Wendi_Irlbeck But you're missing the part where they are already D1 athletes (in the SEC in Big 12 no less) in other sports. Variability in training and, maybe even fun, is what they are looking for in these secondary sports. These athletes have already been "developed" at the highest level.

Youth sports is on life support. If you think it’s fine, you’re not paying attention. Kids age 10-12 are playing way too many tournaments and travel ball. Parents treat it like the World Series. They need less travel, more rest, fueling, and actual development. They’re 12 YO. The data backs it up: ❌70% of kids drop out of organized sports by age 13. ❌Professionalization (year-round single-sport focus, heavy travel/tournaments) drives overuse injuries, overtraining, and burnout. ❌Nearly 1 in 10 youth athletes experience burnout; up to 35% deal with overtraining. ❌Early specialization before 12-13 raises injury and burnout risks significantly. Multi-sport kids who rest and play for fun stick around longer and develop better. Let them be kids. Prioritize recovery, fun, and long-term health over trophies. The best athletes often sample multiple sports early and specialize later. Who else sees this?

@dchirch @Wendi_Irlbeck Focused individually that’s a state champ in the javelin and a top-three or even champ in the PV. Raw athleticism lets you get away with a lot at the high school level, but that should never be confused with actually developing athletes.

@RodMurrow @Wendi_Irlbeck Two recent examples- D1 softball commit is top 5 in the state in most stats, leads team to playoff win on Weds and finishes third in the state in javelin on Thursday. D1 football commit takes 9th in the state in pole vault on Thurs, state runner up in oly/trad weightlifting Fri

No, they can’t. Something is sacrificed even if the athlete performs acceptably and isn’t injured. Pull one of the sports and focus on one sport at a time and see what happens to performance. And you can actually measure recovery or the lack thereof. The LTAD multi-sport model is built on one sport per season, with a different sport each season. Somewhere along the line that got bastardized into simultaneous sports.

@RodMurrow @Wendi_Irlbeck Those are just two of multiple examples from this week alone...and I've seen many, many examples of this type of dual-sport success in 22 years and minimal if any injury or burnout from it. The right coaches, training staff, and athletes can do this all very well.

@JGrill_USNVet @Wendi_Irlbeck Tell me you know nothing about track without telling me you know nothing about track. But that’s a secondary or even tertiary problem compared to the chronic under-recovery.

@RodMurrow @Wendi_Irlbeck Saying of course there is is hysterical. Basketball and football players practice your sport while thet are simultaneously practicing their more complex sport. Butthurt about track🤣😂

@JGrill_USNVet @dchirch @Wendi_Irlbeck @14 That fast kid isn’t getting anything out of 15 minutes of practice. He certainly not working on technique, conditioning, or the other things that going to developing speed.

@RodMurrow @dchirch @Wendi_Irlbeck Track is not primary in middle school because the kid who is really fast on the baseball team can show up to track practice for 15 minutes and just show up to compete in their events and this happens regularly. Its Running races @14 a few times a week while seeing if it’s for you

@JGrill_USNVet @Wendi_Irlbeck Of course there is. They are simultaneously overtrained, undertrained, and chronically under-recovered.p

@RodMurrow @Wendi_Irlbeck Nothing wrong with playing in a basketball tournament with your school team on Saturday and Sunday during baseball season. Or playing a baseball tournament in a weekend during football season. It’s playing on multiple committed teams at the same time that is the problem.

Both are just as bad. Both prevent adequate recovery and require reduced workloads from both sports. I’m curious about your word choice of “running track and playing a primary school sport…” Why is track not primary? In addition to inadequate recovery and reduced workloads, this notion of dabbling is part of the problem.

@RodMurrow @Wendi_Irlbeck Depends on what you mean. Intense travel team during a school season? Or a kid running track and playing a primary school sport in the same season?

@nedryun Such a blessing to be there and share this with your family. Great talking to you yesterday and congrats again on the new member of the Ryun family!

We have a new nephew: Derrion James Ryun. Officially adopted today by my younger sister. She’d fostered him for the last 3 1/2 yrs, began the process of adoption a long time ago. Today was the culmination of years of sacrifice and love. She’ll continue to foster, BTW.

To say nothing of high school and college athletes.

A bad taper is when your athlete feels incredible right up until the exact moment they need to run fast.

Sad news.

Finally able to share what my lab has been working on - evaluating biomechanical changes associated with #AFT #supershoe and signal to explain how they may contribute to injury. Press release from @MGBResearchNews massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsr…

Wow! Is she still sponsored by Puma?

Superb thread.

We saw a great example of that with BALCO years ago. They only reason there could be positive tests is because a syringe with some residue was sent to USADA. They were able to synthesize it, create a test, and go back and retest samples. Substances change, but the concept doesn’t.

@RodMurrow @Cathal_Dennehy Thank you. Finally someone with some logical thinking. You can’t test for something if you don’t know what it is, both PEDs and masking agents.

Scepticism is understandable - and healthy - any time a world record falls, but this is an important detail in the story of Sebastian Sawe and what he achieved in London today.

Current running shoe technology is reminding me more and more of the moon shoes my oldest daughter got for Christmas one year. I double down on my original opinion: these things should’ve gone the way of speed suits in swimming and been banned immediately upon their introduction. Sadly, that horse is outta the barn.

@idlette I hear the same thing everywhere.

By far our best employees are over 60 and it pisses me off daily. Because I'm the problem. I don't beleive in participation congratulations and talking about feelings. I thrive with people who bring their work selves to work and remember their own why for being excellent.

@Cathal_Dennehy The numbers being banned just gives you a tiny glimpse into how big the problem is. If the risk of getting caught 1% or less, and so many are getting caught, that gives you a clue as to how widespread the problem is.

@RodMurrow No one claims it's proof of being clean, but the numbers banned prove testing remains the best deterrent and catching mechanism the sport has, so it's not worthless as so many seem to claim - and many of those same people want Kenya to be banned after so many positives.

It’s not worthless, but you can see worthless from there. Marion Jones “passed” 162 tests while using EPO, HGH, and a designer steroid. Lance never did test positive. Old examples, but current concepts. People routinely take the medicine chest and test “clean” the next day. The penalties aren’t high enough for deterrence when the risk of getting caught is so low.