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| John: Great coaching advice. Thanks very much. Best regards, Hi John, Thank you for sharing your philosophy regarding athletes and their coaches. I very much appreciate and agree with your methods and thought processes. I could have the opportunity to run workouts with a great variety of talented runners here in town as well as talented coaches (such as Arturo Barrios who coaches a big group here in town). Instead, I much prefer to run the workouts and training you prescribe. I believe in you as a coach and I believe in you as a runner. I want to accomplish the things you had already accomplished at my age. As "open" runners we ran similiar times for personal bests with similiar talent. I perceive our talents to be persisitence, hard work and desire more than physical talents (raw speed, high natural VO2 max, etc.) I think you understand how to help me become better as a runner. These same principles help me to become better as a person in everything I do. I want to run similiar times that you ran as Master and I believe you can help me do that. It is more difficult for us because I am here and you are there. Also, I do not have a group to run with on the hard days. That is okay with me. Have a good weekend, John, I'm afraid words can't express my gratitude for your help on Sunday morning. I was really hurting, but it also hurt to see all the runners continue to walk and run by. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for your encouragement. Thanks for your honesty and concern. Thanks for offering to walk the remaining miles with me (I wouldn't have considered doing it alone). Thanks to you, I "ran" across that finish line and completed my second marathon, one that will have so many memories. Thanks again! (Note: I did not coach Dan, he is a runner I found in distress at mile 24 in the Rock n Roll Marathon, June 3, 2001. He lives in New York State. What marathoner has not experienced distress at 24 miles?) |
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