Tinman Track Club? What happened?

zxcvzcxv wrote:

Good for them. As for the idea that a coach is unnecessary, I'd say that the pros know what they are doing, as do the collegians and hs'ers with good programs. Good coaches (and teammates) make runners better than they can do on their own, even though it is the case that all the information is out there about training programs, etc.

There are three versions of reality: who you think you are, who others think you are, and who you really are. A coach is there to help you realize who you really are as a runner. Is it possible for someone to be 100% aware of their body, stresses, and act rationally almost all the time to maximize their performances? Rarely, but I think certain individuals are capable of training themselves and maximizing performance, Coppers and Culpepper are great examples.

forcerunner wrote:

The Wizard JS wrote:

If you or your running mate/mates will be curious to test my DANCAN system and it`s power

you are welcome . I will not charge you. :)

All former TTC runners have already found a new coach and group and have no interest in your services.

You lost, Swedish lizard.

So the team ended because some people unfollowed other people on social media?

Sounds mature.

I've been running 50 years, been an enthusiastic student of physiology and training, and coached a high-schooler to second in the English Schools 3000m and win to win an international Junior x-country race running for England.

As a masters athlete (placed in US Championships four times), however, I got a huge benefit from being coached, not because the coach necessarily knew a lot more about physiology, but that there was a huge benefit of having someone to whom one was accountable. In my case particularly so in doing training that I hate - the really long runs - and slowing down a lot of runs. When you coach yourself, it's amazing how you can rationalize focusing on the sessions you enjoy (in my case hammering out reps on the track) and avoiding the ones you don't.

Man, is Boulder really that janky?

Troopy has a falling out with athletes

Same with Jonesy

Same with Hudson

Same with Tinman

Athletes in Boulder are different.

Backstabbers Distance Project

welcome to flatirons wrote:

Troopy has a falling out with athletes

Same with Jonesy

Same with Hudson

Same with Tinman

Athletes in Boulder are different.

Backstabbers Distance Project

There is a garden variety type that moves to Boulder mainly for the running brags. It's a riff on Chief Niwot's Curse called the Frank Shorter Echo. Every June, there's a new crop of out-of-state plates to be found at the usual locations like Tom Watson Park, Mags, Rollinsville. If they can just pay enough money to get to name drop their famous coach or training partners on socials, if they can have 3 roommates in order to afford to parade around in loud $200 running sneaks, if they can post enough selfies from Mags on socials, if they can post homerun workouts from Centennial MS on their Strava with the "*at altitude" disclaimer. Damn it, why am I typing so much? It's this insecure, status-craving, victim mentality d-bag:

You sound like you weren’t popular with anybody around there. Hate much?

Laughing = hate? No, not popular like YOU!

No, not so popular really. But, I do find it laughable that everybody tries to put a label on others that are just trying to run to the best of their ability and find out how good they can and there’s wrong with that. There’s always going to be d-bags that move to Boulder or insert any running town <here> but they get quickly weeded out.

A little close to home? Boulder has a reputation for a reason, and it's not for sending tools packing.

Do you believe that Boulder has a positive reputation?

I guess you only know what you know.

2:13 guy couldn't find a welcoming group in town after his group dissolved from the Hudson-Kieffer fiasco, just perpetual pissing contests:

I've been around the area my whole life and no, it doesn't always have the best reputation for welcoming in runners but ultimately, that is up to the Coach of those groups. Hudson had an agenda but was not forthright about his agenda and that bred toxic competition within that specific group.