At the end of December 1990, having moved to Austin with $200 in my pocket, my car, one month rent paid, and finding that there was no coaching job at the Univ. of Texas, I was in a financially bad situation. It was partially improved for me by being evicted from my apartment, and basically having few options available, I moved into a small inexpensive room in a boarding house located a few blocks from the Univ. of Texas campus. The rent was cheap and my parents and brothers helped me financially when I needed it. Living on the cheap allowed me to only have to work part time, leaving time to spend several hours a day in the libraries on campus and in the human performance and exercise physiology labs acquiring training information. On average I lived on approximately $5000 to $7000 per year for 10 years. I worked many relatively odd jobs around the Univ. of Texas campus, including bus boy and dishwasher in the Athlete dining hall run by the Men’s Athletics department. My first part-time job in Austin began a few days after I arrived and was through Trina Painter, a local world class distance runner [4th at U.S. Olympic Trials 10,000m, pr for track 10k = 32:14]. I was in a hallway reading research poster presentations outside the lab of Jack Wilmore, one of the world’s leading researchers in exercise physiology [and member of the ETG Elite Coaching Support Group]. Trina happened by and asked if I would help her coach a group of runners. I had met Trina when her boyfriend [eventual husband, David Painter] was the roommate of one of my former high school athletes, Gabrielle Pohlmann [now ETG club member, Gabrielle Patterson]. At the time, Trina was the assistant director of the Univ. of Texas Adult Fitness Program, working under runner & researcher, Phil Stanforth. She had begun a running program there and had a group of about 80 adult runners who had joined. Her group later came to be known as “Team Trina”.
At the end of December 1990, having moved to Austin with $200 in my pocket, my car, one month rent paid, and finding that there was no coaching job at the Univ. of Texas, I was in a financially bad situation. It was partially improved for me by being evicted from my apartment, and basically having few options available, I moved into a small inexpensive room in a boarding house located a few blocks from the Univ. of Texas campus. The rent was cheap and my parents and brothers helped me financially when I needed it. Living on the cheap allowed me to only have to work part time, leaving time to spend several hours a day in the libraries on campus and in the human performance and exercise physiology labs acquiring training information. On average I lived on approximately $5000 to $7000 per year for 10 years. I worked many relatively odd jobs around the Univ. of Texas campus, including bus boy and dishwasher in the Athlete dining hall run by the Men’s Athletics department. My first part-time job in Austin began a few days after I arrived and was through Trina Painter, a local world class distance runner [4th at U.S. Olympic Trials 10,000m, pr for track 10k = 32:14]. I was in a hallway reading research poster presentations outside the lab of Jack Wilmore, one of the world’s leading researchers in exercise physiology [and member of the ETG Elite Coaching Support Group]. Trina happened by and asked if I would help her coach a group of runners. I had met Trina when her boyfriend [eventual husband, David Painter] was the roommate of one of my former high school athletes, Gabrielle Pohlmann [now ETG club member, Gabrielle Patterson]. At the time, Trina was the assistant director of the Univ. of Texas Adult Fitness Program, working under runner & researcher, Phil Stanforth. She had begun a running program there and had a group of about 80 adult runners who had joined. Her group later came to be known as “Team Trina”.
I can't believe that guy is still at it. Haven't heard the name Marshall Burt in years. He is like if Barret Dahl actually implemented his coaching ideas. Get ready for a DEEP rabbit hole if you're going to read all the stuff on letsrun about him. There used to be a new Burt thread every 6 months or so when he'd resurface.
If you want to save yourself a couple hours he describes his training program as "All interval training all the time".
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