girlscoach wrote:
I thought that it was one of the most disrespectful articles I have ever read, about an 84 year old man who suffers from mental impairment from a car accident. I am surprised that the magazine allowed much of the stuff in the article.....he is clearly an elderly man now and not the little dynamo that he once was. I just wish that the writer would be honest why he would slam an old man like that in print...it was a shameful article. And made me sick to my stomach.
Agreed. Is the article online?
Bob Timmons had a lot of variety in the sessions, and he recorded every session for every runner in a book. Everyone knew what they were doing day by day, week by week, through the session. From memory, track work was only twice a week, interspersed with runs around a grass field. Twice a week was a run to a park a mile from the school where longer reps of 880, 1320, or a mile were completed. These were more like steady state cross country semi hard tempo runs up and down hills, than intense runs on the track.
There was a drawing up through the season, first with a build up of volume, then a drawing down to only a few reps, short and sharp at the end. For example, there was build up to a large volume of 440's in mid cross country, lesser at the beginning of track, then only 4x 440 the last week of the season and before big competitions.
Timmons knew exactly what he was doing, and it worked.
There was no other coach that had TWO national record holders in the mile, almost a decade apart and when the mile was the longest event. Bob Timmons was a great coach but more importantly a fine generous man, who touched many lives for the better. I have the greatest of respect for him. It is sad he is suffering and having a hard time of it now.