The New Super Track Groups

See the rise of the new track super-groups in the USA, from Oregon to near-by New York City at this link: Track and Field News April 2014, "The Rise of the Modern Training Group," pages 8 to 12

For world-class runners there always have been a lot of advantages to joining a club or living together in a remote mountain location, while working out with their peers and few distractions.  The advantages include professionalism, a super coach, economic security (perhaps from a big sportswear company), good medical care, all kinds of psychological supports,  and it now appears, Olympic medals.   Maybe US track is back minus the "track star",  painful over-training (including bad drugs), declining performance and public interest. 

1969-1970 U of S Track & Field Team Wins Canadian Championship

This U of S championship team has many familiar names to those of us who had competed in high school track in Saskatchewan back in the sixties, including, among others, Charles Simpson, Bill White, Gerry Filson and coach Lyle Sanderson.  The team, composed of men who chose to stay in Canada, and somehow managed not to get distracted from sports by the glamorous politics of the sixties, represents a successful culmination of sorts of our community of young runners.   In retrospect, I wish I could have been on that team.  See link in blue to a Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame article and picture:  1969-70 University of Saskatchewan Huskies Men's Track and Field Team