https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abxUL7zz1nI
he can pass on race savy
he can pass on race savy
What could Alan Webb possibly have to offer to runners with severely limited genetic potential compared to his out this world genetic talent, and who are training drug free?
Alan only ran one year of college! What does he know about recruiting and training college age men and women? Yes he knows how to train as an elite professional but that’s vastly different. I guess that’s why he’s starting out as a volunteer.
Will he still be operating his truck repair business?
BUTTHOLE SURFER wrote:
This will be a short lived gig.
First off, Webb's credentials as an athlete is off the charts. He's one of the greatest runners ever in U.S. history. That being said, it seems he's been bouncing around with gigs for awhile. Diesel Trucks, coaching kids, coaching high school, coaching adults, triathlons, etc...... It's a similar pattern of his running career. Bouncing around with different coaches and locations trying to find a home. Coaching is a unique profession and being a former world class athlete doesn't guarantee you'll be a good coach. Webb was at his best when he was in a stable "Hand Holding" environment. Tell him what to do and when to do it and he was amazing. As soon as he tried to "Reinvent the wheel" and or look for greener pastures on his own he began to regress. He will find it very difficult to teach and communicate with athletes if he himself doesn't understand the process and not just the end result.
1 year max and he'll be gone. Back to fixing trucks.
My 2 cents
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I think that you had a thought, and I commend you for trying.
You guys all need to check your envy here. He's a freaking volunteer and he wants to learn about coaching. If you guys think that Alan Webb has nothing to offer as a coach you're insane.
BUTTHOLE SURFER wrote:
This will be a short lived gig.
First off, Webb's credentials as an athlete is off the charts. He's one of the greatest runners ever in U.S. history. That being said, it seems he's been bouncing around with gigs for awhile. Diesel Trucks, coaching kids, coaching high school, coaching adults, triathlons, etc...... It's a similar pattern of his running career. Bouncing around with different coaches and locations trying to find a home. Coaching is a unique profession and being a former world class athlete doesn't guarantee you'll be a good coach. Webb was at his best when he was in a stable "Hand Holding" environment. Tell him what to do and when to do it and he was amazing. As soon as he tried to "Reinvent the wheel" and or look for greener pastures on his own he began to regress. He will find it very difficult to teach and communicate with athletes if he himself doesn't understand the process and not just the end result.
1 year max and he'll be gone. Back to fixing trucks.
My 2 cents
:)
You're plainly jealous.
'Volunteer assistant".
That's like carrying the coffee for the guy who goes to get the coffee.
I wonder if he still has the same source for the good EPO he had back in the early 2000s. Could mean big thinggs for Portland State.
Wetmore volunteered at first.
Given all Webb's ups and downs, he's likely an encyclopedia of lessons learned and teaching moments. Plus he is passion personified, and I always enjoy his interviews. I think he'd be a great coach.
What a stupid question wrote:
zxcvzxcv wrote:
What could possibly have attracted him to the position?
The answer is: He can think broadly, unlike some who can't conceive of a world outside of their narrow cubbyholes. What he is doing has so much positive potential. Nothin' ventured, nothin' gained, baby! "Failure" seems to be a definition for outsiders looking in that is seen in a different light by Alan Webb, anyway.
Alan, if you read this, we wish you the very best, however the coaching career pans out. Good luck to you and your wife with child #3, and sorry to read that you lost your mom.
Somehow that M.A.G.A. guy got the irony and you did not. Sad.
I think that Webb will be a very good coach for the time he sticks it out.
Does he coach relaxed?
I wish him good luck.
My own experience as a runner is that the coaches I had who were great runners had little understanding of people who did not have innate ability and really didn't know what to do with them. The best coaches were those who were less than elite runners that studied the sport to find every possible way to improve. This proves out in world class coaching also. Salazar is an outlier as a coach of Olympic level runners who was also at that level himself. The other end of the spectrum: Father O'Connell has had far more success and never was a runner.
Lydiard, Bowerman, Lananna, Wetmore, Jumbo Eliot, John McDonnell - all of them were far better known for coaching than any running they did.
Just an opinion.
The Angel of Death wrote:
zxcvzxcv wrote:
What could possibly have attracted him to the position?
A coaching opening at a local university?
Volunteer assistants aren't job openings. They are generally reserved for 23 year old grad students.
Hopeful Runner wrote:
Volunteer Assistant.. really? Pay the man
Dude's got a wrench in his right hand and a stopwatch now in his left. Let the right hand do the work. Webb's got BANK BAY-BEEEE
Good for him.
I think he'll wheedle his keister over to Alberto's
job.
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
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