RIP coach. You will be missed by many. Thank you for all you have done🏃🏻♂️
RIP coach. You will be missed by many. Thank you for all you have done🏃🏻♂️
He had a few beers with me and my friends after a Falmouth race in the early '80s. Good guy and excellent coach.
Hey Tinman, anything specific about Coach Squires’ training philosophy influence how you train your athletes?
I just recently bought Speed with Endurance, some interesting things in there.
I remember meeting him when he was coaching Bo State. He always had a word of encouragement for even a lowly D3 opponent hobby jogger like myself. A wonderful man.
Here is an EXCELLENT article on him by Roger Robinson in Runner's World.
RIP
Malmo, I was visiting with a mutual friend (Peter B.) many many years ago and we popped into Elliot's Lounge. Pete started talking to this older guy at the bar and it took me sometime to realize who it was. Hours later in conversation and more beers and amazing stories we almost closed the place.
It was so local Boston and so amazing, he was a force and just the nicest guy. RIP Coach
My favorite Coach story. I often retell it.
“The long run puts the tiger in the cat.”
If that was your only visit to Boston then you got the feel of it. Of any place I've ever been Boston ( and New England in general) had, by far, the best vibe in the running community. Any time you visit it always feels like home. Its the only place like it.
RIP, Bill Squires
(and did anyone else think this poster was talking about the marathon when he said he was told "I can get you under 2:00" ... LOL, that would have been bold at the time, for sure ... but poster says later he was talking about the 880)
I don't think Squires gets enough credit. When people talk about coaches they're quick to cite Lydiard or Daniels, but Squires should be right there in the conversation.
He took a bunch of post collegians with no real credentials & made them into a team that could compete against whole countries!
Bill and I got to talking about coaching once. He told me that he didn't consider it real coaching success when someone took a 17 year old East African who had already run 28:20 for 10,000 meters and got him to 2:06 for the marathon. He thought real coaching success was taking a guy in his 20's who'd maybe done a 2;23 marathon and getting him to 2:12 or so. He was a master at doing that. If the US had ever had a national marathon coach it should have been Bill. We can only wonder what would have happened as a result but you know it would have been good.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Rest in Peace Adrian Lehmann - 2:11 Swiss marathoner. Dies of heart attack.
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year