Not knowing you is exactly what we are referring to. If anyone is a troll, it is you.
Not knowing you is exactly what we are referring to. If anyone is a troll, it is you.
michael spino wrote:
Not knowing you is exactly what we are referring to. If anyone is a troll, it is you.
He's no troll. I know who he is and some of his history.
michael spino wrote:
Not knowing you is exactly what we are referring to. If anyone is a troll, it is you.
OK. I guess it was all just a dream.
Igy
Been Here a While wrote:
michael spino wrote:Not knowing you is exactly what we are referring to. If anyone is a troll, it is you.
He's no troll. I know who he is and some of his history.
Nor am I a troll. I'm not sure why he would suggest such a thing.
The funny thing is I never even said my name or claimed to know you.
You said that you met me and that you ran with Joe. Neither of us remember a high schooler being around at that time.
OK. That is fine. I can assure you I remember Joe in his baggy cotton sweats. He was quite adept at the snot rocket. If I recall correctly after the 1968 trials he went back to Chicago to work in the family business.
Trained with Mihaly Igloi in High School while with the Santa Monica Track Club then Lazlo Tabori at LA Valley College 1971 with Dave Babaraki we won the California State Junior Colloege Championship. Cross Country. I was the only one to train with Igloi and Tabori...... then Joe DouglasI later ran for the University of Washington needless to say i had a better coach in High School than I did in College. we recuited DAVE I ran with him on a recuiting trip to Seattle!I asked the fame coach at Oregon for running tips..... Bill Bowerman said " YOU ARE IN THE BEST HANDS IN THE WORLD WITH IGLOI"
old school dog wrote:
Tabori's best runner during the late 70's, early 80's was Dave Babaraki...a tough road runner around the LA area.
AJ,
May have met you in the past. I ran with Igloi 1967-1970, Douglas 1972-1974, Tabori 1975-1976.
Reid Harter
What's so great about "Mihaly Igloi?" 🤔 (btw, the name sounds Eskimo?).
Inquiry minds want to know wrote:
What's so great about "Mihaly Igloi?" 🤔 (btw, the name sounds Eskimo?).
That's because he lived in an igloo.
ancient runner wrote:
It is impossible to give a picture of an average Igloi training plan.He has over 40,000 different ones.However I watched some of Igloi's students at Santa Monica College track in action and left wondering how the human body can stand it.
A normal workout lasts about three hours and starts with a 5 mile wamup run, followed by 15 long accelerations with jog back recoveries before the real work begins. At 13-year old girl, for example, performed after the warmup 4 series of 6*400m. with 200m. recovery jogs, and 10 fast 100m. sprints between each series.She covered in one workout over 13 miles.One of the male athlete followed the same warmup with five series of 12*400m. with 200m. recovery jogs.Between each series , he executed one rather brisk 1200m. run. He covered about 28 miles during this session and in addition 1.1/2-2 hours in the morning every day of the week. A 30-hour week is regarded as normal.
When I read this I wonder what became of that 13-year-old girl. Did she win races? How long did she stay in the sport? Is she still running?
I thought one of Igloi's training principles was that of not having hard and easy days but rather having the athlete being able to train again with a similar effort day after day? How many elite runners these days spend 30 hours a week training?
He was a very cold runner wrote:
That's because he lived in an igloo.
Got it.ðŸ‘I was wondering because I never heard of the dude. But I figured it had to do something with an igloo. Sometimes these things are easy to figure out; I once met a guy at a race named "Hightower." After chatting for a while, he told me he lived on the top floor of a high-rise building. I told him that's what I thought his name suggested. 😉
The girl was Maria Strearns. Igloi left for Greece the next years.
Another giver of +1 wrote:
ancient runner wrote:It is impossible to give a picture of an average Igloi training plan.He has over 40,000 different ones.However I watched some of Igloi's students at Santa Monica College track in action and left wondering how the human body can stand it.
A normal workout lasts about three hours and starts with a 5 mile wamup run, followed by 15 long accelerations with jog back recoveries before the real work begins. At 13-year old girl, for example, performed after the warmup 4 series of 6*400m. with 200m. recovery jogs, and 10 fast 100m. sprints between each series.She covered in one workout over 13 miles.One of the male athlete followed the same warmup with five series of 12*400m. with 200m. recovery jogs.Between each series , he executed one rather brisk 1200m. run. He covered about 28 miles during this session and in addition 1.1/2-2 hours in the morning every day of the week. A 30-hour week is regarded as normal.
When I read this I wonder what became of that 13-year-old girl. Did she win races? How long did she stay in the sport? Is she still running?
I thought one of Igloi's training principles was that of not having hard and easy days but rather having the athlete being able to train again with a similar effort day after day? How many elite runners these days spend 30 hours a week training?
Here is Maria's results from 1970, by that time probably closer to 16 years old. Ran a 4:30 1500m:
http://trackfield.brinkster.net/USATournaments.asp?TourCode=N&Year=1970&Gender=W&TF=T&P=F&By=Y&Count=A J Herbert wrote:
I was the only one to train with Igloi and Tabori...... then Joe Douglas
That's very cool. Imagine not only training with all three, but being the only one who ever did.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
AJ,
May have met you in the past. I ran with Igloi 1967-1970, Douglas 1972-1974, Tabori 1975-1976.
Reid Harter
Nice if it were true, but I am confident that there were more people who trained with all three coaches.
Igy
I believe Micheal Spino debunked your claims.
Michael Spino is no Reid Harter.
Exactly.