Bob Timmons to coach Jim Ryun for attempt on age group record.

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  • Jumpin Joey

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    14 years ago 04/01/2010 8:48am EDT

    Ever since he was voted out of Congress, Ryun has toyed with the idea of returning to the track. He has finally decided to reunite with Coach Timmons to try to be the first man past the age of 60 to run sub-4:50 for the mile.

    To compensate for the fact that Ryun does not respond as quickly to hard training as he used to, Timmons will be increasing the frequency of the hard training. Ryun will be doing 15 miles of high-steady-state running every morning and interval workouts every other afternoon.

  • warming up the crowd

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 8:55am EDT
    re: Jumpin Joey

    Not a bad start to the day. Definitely room for improvement, but not bad.

  • Norman Nervosa

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 9:08am EDT
    re: warming up the crowd

    For the love of God! Please, just leave Coach Timmons alone!!! Jesus!

  • Damned If You Do

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 9:11am EDT
    re: Norman Nervosa

    Why no tempo running?

  • radiostar

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 10:53am EDT
    re: Jumpin Joey

    We're gonna need a new Timmons.

  • registered

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    448 posts. Last post 13 years ago.
    14 years ago 04/01/2010 10:58am EDT
    re: radiostar

    No hill repeats?

  • Mike in HC

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    14 years ago 04/01/2010 12:58pm EDT
    re: www.666energy.com

    I heard that he is going to race Snell again!

  • Pekka Passala

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    14 years ago 04/01/2010 1:22pm EDT
    re: Mike in HC

    Mike in HC wrote:

    I heard that he is going to race Snell again!

    Snell definitely wants a rematch. But Liquori and Keino aren't interested. They're happy with their final results against Ryun.

  • a

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 1:30pm EDT
    re: Damned If You Do

    You know this is fake because thereis no way Timmons would have anyone do steady state running. Now if he said 15 miles of intervals, I would say that is a classic timmons workout.

    Damned If You Do wrote:

    Why no tempo running?

  • Cordner Nielson

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 1:40pm EDT
    re: a

    Ryun did do long runs under Timmons (10-15 miles). It's in "The Jim Ryun Story."

  • erhs

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 1:42pm EDT
    re: a

    a wrote:

    You know this is fake because thereis no way Timmons would have anyone do steady state running. Now if he said 15 miles of intervals, I would say that is a classic timmons workout.

    Well, of course it's fake; but Timmy certainly had athletes do steady-state running at various times of the year. Ryun averaged well over 100mpw for longish stretches of time, and a majority of that mileage was steady running.

    Granting that you were just joking...

  • nate33

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    14 years ago 04/01/2010 1:45pm EDT
    re: erhs

    I don't necessarily agree with how Ryun was trained, but i don't think anyone should bag on Timmons. How many 3:51 guys have any of us coached--in the 60's no less!

  • ofhg

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    14 years ago 04/01/2010 1:52pm EDT
    re: Jumpin Joey

    Idiots.

    What day is it?

  • Dominique Severin

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    14 years ago 04/01/2010 2:04pm EDT
    re: ofhg

    ofhg wrote:

    What day is it?

    Why wouldn't Ryun go after the world age-group record? He did it at 15, so why can't he do it at 64 (he'll be 64 this month)?

    The only suspect part of all of this is that he'd work with Timmons, who is suffering from dementia. Maybe Ryun wants to coach himself and let Timmons just be an honorary coach.

  • ofhg

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 2:10pm EDT
    re: Dominique Severin

    Dominique Severin wrote:

    [quote] wrote:

    The only suspect part of all of this is that he'd work with Timmons, who is suffering from dementia.

    Thank you, Dominique, lord of the idiots.

  • jrt

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 2:12pm EDT
    re: ofhg

    ofhg wrote:

    Idiots.

    Yeah, unless people (like the guys who said "fake" and "just kidding") knew about the joke and were having fun with it anyway...

  • It is Thrusday

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 2:18pm EDT
    re: ofhg

    ofhg wrote:

    Idiots.

    What day is it?

    It is Thursday. Didn't you learn the days of the week in school? Maybe you slept in class that day.

  • Dominique Severin

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 2:20pm EDT
    re: ofhg

    ofhg wrote:

    Thank you, Dominique, lord of the idiots.

    Take that back. Or I'm going to report you!

  • What?????

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 3:23pm EDT
    re: Dominique Severin

    Dominique Severin wrote:

    The only suspect part of all of this is that he'd work with Timmons, who is suffering from dementia.

    Where am I???

  • amxvz

    Anonymous Poster

    14 years ago 04/01/2010 3:26pm EDT
    re: What?????

    What????? wrote:

    Dominique Severin wrote:

    The only suspect part of all of this is that he'd work with Timmons, who is suffering from dementia.

    Where am I???

    Who?

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