Kara Goucher Moves to Jerry Schumacher: "Change is Hard," by Kara Goucher at Competitor.com, note by Larry Eder

Kara Goucher, 2011 World Championships 10,000m, photo by PhotoRun.net

Kara Goucher has changed coaches and training groups. Per her blog at Competitor.com (http://karagoucher.competitor.com/2011/10/23/change-is-hard/), Kara Goucher announced, in a very poignant column, that she has changed coaches, from Alberto Salazar to Jerry Schumacher.

Alberto Salazar, the founder of the Oregon Project told writers at the TAFWA that his goal, in creating the project was to help American distance runners reach the top level. With Jerry Schumacher and Mark Rowland, both at the Oregon Track Club, Alberto has added onto what he can achieve.

Coaches and Athletes change during a career. We wish Kara Goucher and her husband Adam, the very best of luck as they train for the 2012 Olympic marathon trials in Houston.

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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