What is your favorite Lydiard Quote

That would be a way to use e-mail. Nice job by your dad. By the way, how many Olympic medallists did he coach, either in person or by e-mail?

Your dad loves you though wrote:

Schul wrote:

All of the ones that wanted to evolve. People who refuse to adapt are annoying.

My Dad is one of them.

Maybe you should work on your relationship with your father instead of complaining that a guy who died in 2004 didn't like email. He won't be around forever either.

My relationship with my Dad is fine. He just can't email me, which is annoying.

HRE wrote:

That would be a way to use e-mail. Nice job by your dad. By the way, how many Olympic medallists did he coach, either in person or by e-mail?

Oh, he wasn't a running coach. WTF gave you that idea? Being good at something doesn't exempt one from basic modern life skills.

Especially when they are calling other people stupid, which my Dad sometimes does too.

"Do not fear the Africans. They are not superior by nature but rather superior in their training."

Many people have chosen not to use e-mail or the Internet. It has nothing to do with their intelligence and Lydiard was saying those things about US coaches long before the Internet even existed.

"The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved." (I love this one and tell my runners that all of the time)

"Hills are the only beneficial type of resistance training for a runner."

"Black, white or chinese. We are all the same. We are all humans beings. There is only one way human beings must train to optimize potential. It is not a coincidence that I coached multiple Olympians from my neighborhood. Look around you there are champions everywhere."

HRE wrote:

Many people have chosen not to use e-mail or the Internet. It has nothing to do with their intelligence and Lydiard was saying those things about US coaches long before the Internet even existed.

You don't know that if they CAN'T actually use it.

Lydiard shouldn't have been critical of US coaches considering the US did just fine in that era.

The US coach who did just fine in the era when Arthur was actively coaching was really Hungarian. And he never e-mailed.

HRE wrote:

The US coach who did just fine in the era when Arthur was actively coaching was really Hungarian. And he never e-mailed.

Timmons was Hungarian? Dellinger was coached by Igloi?

Arthur certainly respected Jim Ryun and his accomplishments but when we talked about him, which was only briefly, it seemed pretty clear he wasn't all that impressed with the coaching Ryun got. I know he told me Ryun could have done even better with proper coaching. He did respect Bowerman who had gone to New Zealand to learn what Arthur was doing and was quoted as saying, "I am but the messenger, Arthur Lydiard is the prophet." At any rate, it was Igloi who coached the US gold medallists from that era.

Arthur certainly respected Jim Ryun and his accomplishments but when we talked about him, which was only briefly, it seemed pretty clear he wasn't all that impressed with the coaching Ryun got. I know he told me Ryun could have done even better with proper coaching. He did respect Bowerman who had gone to New Zealand to learn what Arthur was doing and was quoted as saying, "I am but the messenger, Arthur Lydiard is the prophet." At any rate, it was Igloi who coached the US gold medallists from that era.

Schul wrote:

millennials are stupid wrote:

How many born in 1917 could?

All of the ones that wanted to evolve. People who refuse to adapt are annoying.

My Dad is one of them.

You obviously haven't evolved much in your life. Hopefully you will evolve somewhat faster so that when you're 80+ you understand that there are other ways to evolve in life than using email.

Schul wrote:

People who refuse to adapt are annoying.

My Dad is one of them.

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

Weird that most of these quotes aren't online?

what a retard! wrote:

Schul wrote:

All of the ones that wanted to evolve. People who refuse to adapt are annoying.

My Dad is one of them.

You obviously haven't evolved much in your life. Hopefully you will evolve somewhat faster so that when you're 80+ you understand that there are other ways to evolve in life than using email.

Sure I have. I had to play a desperate game of catch-up due to my parents being practically Luddites.

one day kiddo will understand wrote:

Schul wrote:

People who refuse to adapt are annoying.

My Dad is one of them.

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

I looked up to my Dad for all his knowledge. Unfortunately it was all outdated useless stuff.

Schul wrote:

This from a guy that couldn't use email.

Considering only 5% of people over the age of 65 used email the year he died I think he did quite well.

"The Americans are basically stupid. Once you understand this you've solved the riddle to distance running."

He was talking about American coaches and their outdated training methods, focusing on hard interval training rather than aerobic development. His friend Bill Bowerman was the first to get the message.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Schul wrote:

This from a guy that couldn't use email.

Considering only 5% of people over the age of 65 used email the year he died I think he did quite well.

"The Americans are basically stupid. Once you understand this you've solved the riddle to distance running."

He was talking about American coaches and their outdated training methods, focusing on hard interval training rather than aerobic development. His friend Bill Bowerman was the first to get the message.

That's a lot of dumb old people. Must be acquired dumbness that comes with age.

Igloi used hard interval training, as did Timmons. Lydiard just couldn't accept that there is more than one way to train.