I am extremely saddened to hear only now (2024) of Dick Brown's passing. I ran with his team in 1993-4 and knew him as a compassionate, innovative, extremely wise coach. He was an innovator--inventor of Aqua Jogger, purportedly invented it to keep his athletes from overtraining. He was a scientist--after I introduced him to glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, he conducted a clinical trial on himself to address articular cartilage injuries and loss. He was giddy when it helped him resume rowing without pain! He was compassionate--I was an amateur runner who took a leave from my MD-PhD program to realize the extent of my running talent, and he graciously allowed me to join his impressive team. He recognized my health limitations (I was injured and had a muscle fibrosis disorder), and he worked with me with compassion and encouragement so I could run at my highest level. He lectured the like team regularly on the GAS (general adaptation syndrome)to stress, and trained us in a way that minimized over-use injuries, but optimized our performance through targeted workouts, mandating good form, rest, nutrition, stress-management, cross training (running in the pool, swimming), and sleep. Contrary to all of the tasteless and inappropriate innuendos on this site, I NEVER caught wind of anything at all off-nominal or inappropriate in his character or conduct, I was with him daily at the track or weightroom with the team and privately bi-weekly to review our mandatory extensive journals recording our vitals, sleep, diet, subjective measure of stress, etc. He thoughtfully individualized our work outs to maximize our performance while avoiding over-training so we could peak at the Trials. Based on my time as an athlete under his care I can attest that Dick was a humble, honest person and coach who advocated for his athletes with wisdom, decency, and kindness. He is greatly missed.