grandpa augustus wrote:
Bonus points for Hall if "God's voice" in his head made him do it because the notorious serial killers also heard voices in their head.
Yes! This is the best argument for thinking Hall will be more successful sans coach that I've heard yet.
Great post grandpa, well said!
This is what I sent by email and Ashbrook read on air:
Expecting that changing a runner’s form would cause a great improvement in racing is wishful thinking like hoping to find an island of flightless birds just waiting for a coach to teach them how to fly.
Tom Derderian, Coach Greater Boston Track Club
Posted by Tom Derderian, on November 9th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
I'm finally home from work and can actually listen to the podcast. It's pretty funny how they're talking about this epidemic while having to mention Meb won New York last year. Then, the lady who did the Salazar article mentions how nobody can run times in Boston like Salazar and Rodgers used to, which seems to indicate they didn't look at Hall's most recent time there. This show would have been pretty good a few years ago. American distance running is certainly moving in a better direction now.
I really enjoyed Scott Douglas's (aka SMD) crazy uncle comment. That was spot on and funny as hell.