Renowned Coach Dahl fan wrote:
Excellent result for you Coach Dahl! Do you offer online marathon coaching by chance?
In all honesty, I am not the best option for marathon coaching. Let me explain why.
In the late 90s, there was guy name Jerry Faulkner. He ran for OBU. He fell in love with running and attempted several large city marathons. He was coached by Mark bravo (not Johnny bravo who has been my cosch since 91). Mark did a great job with Jerry, but Jerry had no big city wins. Something was missing. After sitting down and analyzing everything to the T, Jerry and Mark figured out there was something wrong with his hydration methods.
Jerry ended up hiring a MEDICAL DOCTOR named Tom Coniglione. Dr Coniglione played the sole role of HYDRATING Jerry. After this, Jerry went on to win the okc marathon multiple times, get a FULL BLOWN professional contract with Adidas, and make the USA Olympic marathon team. All because he hired a medical doctor to monitor and calibrate his hydration methods.
Dr Coniglione has been my personal medical doctor since 1992 when I tore my psoas muscle and no other doctor in America knew what a psoas was and no other doctors had even heard of the muscle before. I saw docs in NYC, Boston, san Francisco, Denver, and even London. None of them had ever heard of a psoas before. When I met Dr Coniglione, he took some old dirty toilet paper, ripped holes in it, and told me that my psoas muscle, which is located deep, deep, deep, deep, in the stomach of humans, had microtears and those microtears are like taking a 12 gage shotgun and blowing a in a piece of toilet paper. He healed me when no other doctor in America possibly could.
To this day, Dr Coniglione is STILL my personal medical doctor. He controls my hydration and injuries, not coach bravo. Dr Coniglione will soon be 90 years old. At this point in his life and career, he only sees runners on FRIDAYS. he is the #1 "running doctor" in America and either #1 or #2 running doctor in the WORLD, depending on who you ask. Hes taken me a very very long ways, all the way from a novice nobody with a torn psoas muscle, all the way to being a state and regional record holder and now a qualifier for the world masters championship and being a top 3 runner in the world for the 35 to 40 age bracket.
Over the years, my professional staff has remained the same because its what works for me. My main coach who constructs my workouts is coach Jonny Bravo. My medical doctor and hydrationist is Dr Coniglione. My sports psychologist is Dr Nagamali. And finally the individual in full control of all supplement, drugs, and medications that I use is Dr Stanley Ardvaark. I have kept this same staff because they love and understand me and are the best possible professionals that money can buy.
My point being, marathon training requires other little helpers besides just a trainer. You need a hydrationist who is a medical doctor. I am usatf level 4 certified in 800 to 10,000 meter training. I do not have the knowledge specifically in marathoning to be your best option. There are better options out there for that distance, plus you need a medical doctor who is a hydrationist. That said, if you are training for 800 to 10k, there is nobody better on this planet other than me who is your best option for those distances. If you want to come down in distance you can contact me on here, youtube, or my email address.
Lastly, I noticed that Harry Styles is heavily tattooed. As a coach, it is my moral and legal obligation to inform everyone that tattoo ink does ADD SIGNIFICANT BODY WEIGHT and is more to "lug around" at all distances.
Let me know if you have any other questions, comments, suggestions, or recommendations. Keep in mind letsrun is a 3rd party news outlet, and mainly about current events, not exclusively promoting one's self.
Coach dahl