Bill Dellinger is coming to my running camp - What questions should I ask him?

Bill, show me the money!!

How do I make $100,000 a year running?

"Did you kill that girl in Aruba?"

Ask to see his medal because not many American distance kids earned one.

Ask if he regrets the deal with the other shoe company.

Ed O'Neil or Dean Norris?

Rhody wrote:

Inspire me, LetsRun. I leave August 3rd

Did you know Pre?

You could ask him about date and goal paces, you could ask how to incorporate his training drills progession to championship season and how they relate to the callousing effect,. You could ask his thoughts on ancillary training for injury prevention. You could ask him about how he advanced the Oregon training method that progressed from Hayward to Bowerman to him and what his thought process was.

You could ask him his thoughts on how do we catch up the Kenyan and Ethiopian kids who have average an 18000 miles of base work ahead of American kids.

Most of all have fun listening to one of the great US distance running coaches.

[quote]48 wrote:

You could ask him about date and goal paces, you could ask how to incorporate his training drills progession to championship season and how they relate to the callousing effect,. You could ask his thoughts on ancillary training for injury prevention. You could ask him about how he advanced the Oregon training method that progressed from Hayward to Bowerman to him and what his thought process was.

You could ask him his thoughts on how do we catch up the Kenyan and Ethiopian kids who have average an 18000 miles of base work ahead of American kids.

Most of all have fun listening to one of the great US distance running coaches.[/quote

Well said!

Clearly, you know the Oregon System, as Bill Dellinger used it!

My hope is that Bill is holding up well, following a stroke a few years ago.

Ask him how he thinks Galen Rupp would have done with a part-time job in a sawmill.

"Would you describe your Olympic experience from your present day perspective."

Bill Dellinger is one of the best college distance coaches in NCAA history. I would ask how to break up your training week....what should your long run be? How should you break your week into workouts? The man is an artistic genius where it comes to running, you will not find a better coach on the planet. Bill Dellinger could go to any HS today and produce the best HS program in the nation.

Ask him if he was pissed on by Bowerman in the shower back in the day.

Ask him if he thinks the terrorists at Munich cost Pre a medal in the 5000 since it gave Viren an extra day of rest from the 10000.

If he says yes, then reply "now that's a real tragedy."

Bill,

Any chance that Steve prefontaine was on steroids. He lived with a thrower after all.

Someone suggested this to me recently and it blew my mind. Blasphemy but now I'm obsessed with the idea. He was kind of jacked like Paul McMullen right?

Ask if he's seen any of the planned parenthood videos or what he thinks about Cecil the lion. He probably gets tired being asked running questions all the time.

Ask him if he's heard from A Duck lately.

Welcome back Tinman!

rojo wrote:

Bill,

Any chance that Steve prefontaine was on steroids. He lived with a thrower after all.

Someone suggested this to me recently and it blew my mind. Blasphemy but now I'm obsessed with the idea. He was kind of jacked like Paul McMullen right?

You are a despicable human being.

rojo wrote:

Bill,

Any chance that Steve prefontaine was on steroids. He lived with a thrower after all.

Someone suggested this to me recently and it blew my mind. Blasphemy but now I'm obsessed with the idea. He was kind of jacked like Paul McMullen right?

I highly recommend, you and everyone on this thread tread lightly and respectfully.

As many know, Mr. Dellinger suffered a stroke some years back and he has difficulties speaking due to the effects of that stroke. In addition his dear wife passed in the last year.

It's possible that this thread itself is a cruel put on.

If you want to ask questions about Pre, you are better off seeking out his college teammates.