Had the pleasure of listening to him speak and meet him a couple of times. Both times he was invited to speak to a very small group. He was entertaining, thoughtful, gracious, and very generous with his time. He asked everyone about their training & race plans and autographed every book.
If this was a thread about db Brosnan, the mods would be watching this thread like hawks. Same as if one of brojos coach friends was screwing one of their athletes (again). But they let the weirdos positively ravage jtupper's memory on the day he died. SHAME!
Sad to read :( I started running 11 years ago 35 minute 5K and his book helped me get down to 16:21. I would always do my v02max and threshold workouts at his prescribed paces. It was before all the YouTube and Strava pro videos shared training.
The world seems to be changing so fast lately or I'm just getting old approaching 40
I honestly think he deserves a black page. Not only is he the most influential running coach (at least for hobby joggers like me), but he also contributed a lot to this board. He will be missed.
I don't think he posted here after about 2011 at the latest, but those of us who were here during roughly the years 2003-2011 remember a time when this board was amazing. Daniels would routinely answer poster's questions regarding all aspects of running. I never met him but read his books and interacted with him here. 100% class act. Never criticized any posters, even the trolls. Sadly, there were cowardly trolls who liked to anonymously talk $hit to him here and try to act tough and eventually drove him away. What 80-yo man wants to put up with the crap we see here daily? So he moved on and the board has just deteriorated since.
He's probably got God on a treadmill right now doing a VO2max test.
RIP, jtupper
I remember being pretty stoked that jtupper was posting here. Pre social media, these boards were pertty civilized and a lot of great information was shared.
Same here. I have never had a running coach in my life.
His Running Formula was the most important book I have read about running. It taught me how to build training plans and how to be my own coach.
I l've literally had it sitting on my coffee table or next to my laptop 95% of the time for almost 20 years.
I pulled it off of the shelf last week. I'm helping a newbie train for a marathon and pulled it out to see look at the VDOT chart. It will always be a great resource.
My first two years of HS fall of 2005 -> Spring 2007 I lived in upstate NY and had no idea how to train but ran some ok times (9:38 3200 soph year). Moved to Texas as a junior because my dad was transferred to a new base (army) and we reached out to the XC coach that my goal was to run at the D1 level. He was the soccer coach first and XC coach second but after our call he purchased and dedicated himself to Daniels Running Formula and had us all do a 9min TT in summer training and wheeled our distance and gave us a predicted VO2 max and VDOT plus printed the chart for us to know all our workout paces. Ended up top 10 at NXN and running for Michigan two years later.
going into my senior year of college, I spent 6 weeks training in flagstaff because my sis was going to school at NAU. I ran into Janet Bawcom at Buffalo Park and her husband asked if I could pace her for a workout the next morning. I did and she invited me to breakfast with her coach after. That’s how I found myself sharing a meal with Jack Daniels at the peak of my running career. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life, he was so kind and just thrilled to talk to anybody with a passion for the sport. He will be missed and his influence will continue to live on in the sport.
Self-coached running was the only option when I was coming through, Jack Daniels' books helped me get achieve all the weekend warrior benchmarks. RIP a million times over.
Jack's book was the first I ever purchased on running. The 2nd edition of his Running Formula with Alan Culpepper on the cover back in 2007. I always enjoyed listening to the stories he'd tell in various youtube videos from talks he'd give at clinics. He worked with so many legendary runners like Jim Ryun, Gerry Lindgren, Ryan Hall, and more. He made maybe the most influential book for coaching running. So many high school coaches used it, including mine I believe.