malmo wrote:
HRE wrote:
There was a version of that, "When you aren't training someone else is. When you race him he'll win" that Tom Fleming kept on a sign in his bedroom. Don't know if he made it up or got it from someone. There was a story that George Young got himself out for his morning run by telling himself, "Those Russians have been training for hours."
I never heard of Tom Fleming until 1975. That was our mantra in 1970.
Also our coach implored us with, "The only thing on your minds in a race should be a seven letter word -- 'DOMINATE'" It was three years before we figured out DOMINATE has eight letters!
When I first heard of Tom's bedroom sign and quote I knew I'd heard a version of it some years earlier and kind of thought he was probably adapting George Young's comment. Did you guys eventually tell your coach what you'd figured out?