The experiences that running and coaching has provided me seem almost limitless and at times, unbelievable. Over the years, I’ve also been privileged enough to have met some of the biggest names in running and coaching.
Besides attending the summer Olympics, the World Championships of Track & Field, multiple National Championship events in both cross country and track, I’ve also been fortunate enough to meet Four Boston Marathon winners, Gold Medalists in the 800 meters, 10,000 meters, and marathon, as well as, a 3-time World Champion and former indoor world record holder in the 1500 meters, just to name a few.
But, with the multitude of memories from people that I’ve met or experiences I’ve gone through, two stand out which exemplifies how the simple act of running has provided me with unique and …show more content…
is Dr. Jack Daniels. Coach Daniels, whose teams, while at SUNY-Cortland, won eight Division III National Championships, outlined these workouts in an article he wrote for Runner’s World magazine in 1990. After reading this information and experimenting with the new approach myself, I quickly became a full fledged advocate for this type of training. The workout, which in simple terms, involves running repetitions at about 90% of your MHR (maximum heart rate) followed by a sixty-second jog between each run, turned out to, not only revitalized my running but, quickly became a regular part of my coaching regimen with my cross country and track teams and remained so for the rest of my coaching career.
The training effect that Threshold Workouts provided was so dramatic and I believed in it so wholeheartedly, that I decided to write my very first article on training using his ideas. Luckily, shortly before I sent the article, entitled “The Four Basic Speeds of Distance Running Training”, into the magazine, I was able to hear Coach Daniels speak at a track & field clinic in
Besides attending the summer Olympics, the World Championships of Track & Field, multiple National Championship events in both cross country and track, I’ve also been fortunate enough to meet Four Boston Marathon winners, Gold Medalists in the 800 meters, 10,000 meters, and marathon, as well as, a 3-time World Champion and former indoor world record holder in the 1500 meters, just to name a few.
But, with the multitude of memories from people that I’ve met or experiences I’ve gone through, two stand out which exemplifies how the simple act of running has provided me with unique and …show more content…
is Dr. Jack Daniels. Coach Daniels, whose teams, while at SUNY-Cortland, won eight Division III National Championships, outlined these workouts in an article he wrote for Runner’s World magazine in 1990. After reading this information and experimenting with the new approach myself, I quickly became a full fledged advocate for this type of training. The workout, which in simple terms, involves running repetitions at about 90% of your MHR (maximum heart rate) followed by a sixty-second jog between each run, turned out to, not only revitalized my running but, quickly became a regular part of my coaching regimen with my cross country and track teams and remained so for the rest of my coaching career.
The training effect that Threshold Workouts provided was so dramatic and I believed in it so wholeheartedly, that I decided to write my very first article on training using his ideas. Luckily, shortly before I sent the article, entitled “The Four Basic Speeds of Distance Running Training”, into the magazine, I was able to hear Coach Daniels speak at a track & field clinic in