I think Terence Mahon is a great coach. I am a huge fan of Emma Bates. I thought she would be a great marathoner. What happened with things? Why didn't it work?
I don't know but honestly I got to tell you something. I use to train up near the bay and I was a 400m sprinter. They use to call me Johnny the sprinter because I knew how to sprint. I ran a 14 flat without spikes and 13.62 was my pb with spikes. Anyways since I was so fast I always impressed the ladies at my local track.
I eventually ended up meeting this girl at my local track and she was a 100m sprinter. She was able to run 18.5 without spikes, but with spikes around 17.3. She was the queen of sprinting at my local track. We became very close and one random day I ended up asking for her number and she got very upset and said "no how could you ask me that". I honestly was so surprised by her response. I told her I thought we had a connection. She ended up telling me we had a connection as friends but nothing else.
I ended up quitting running and never ran again since. This happened 5yrs ago and although I wish she said yes I can't do anything about. All I want to say is never give up because you never know who's around the corner that may end up loving you.
The heat training and humidity, the mosquitoes. It made me learn how to work hard and not care about feeling bad. It was just get through it and have resiliency," Bates said.