Has anyone ever heard of Rose Monday? She's the US Olympic women's distance coach

Wow, you are a track novice, aren't you?

obsessed with olympics wrote:

Who knows more about her?

I know Rose. Talked to her earlier today.

If you haven't heard of Rose, please stop posting and go back to school as in fact you don't know anything and haven't earned the right to post yet.

Really? They didn't allow coaches to walk in the ceremony? I know the men's distance coach, and was really excited for him getting to walk...that's a bullshit move if they didn't allow them to be a part of the ceremony...

fly a kite wrote:

If you haven't heard of Rose, please stop posting and go back to school as in fact you don't know anything and haven't earned the right to post yet.

I guess this means I should shut down LetsRun.com as I'll confess I've never heard of her myself.

Does anyone know her pbs?

rojo wrote:

Does anyone know her pbs?

More relevant would be the PBs of athletes she's coached, before and after she worked with them. Though I imagine an Olympic assistant coach is more of a ceremonial title, since they all have their own coaches and are not going to be asking Rose Monday for workouts.

Sounds like a happening in Germany:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenmontag

Rose ran about 2:00 for the 800 back in the early 90's (?). She ran with Skip Stolley in Los Angeles for a number of years.

I want to say around 1:59/2:00 but I could be wrong. She was very good in her day.

She coaches Maggie Vesey.

I've met her, and spent some time with her, she is an absolute delight!

Rose Monday is the most interesting woman in the world:

She is left-handed. And right-handed.

If she were to mail a letter without postage, it would still get there.

She has amassed an incredibly large DVD library, and it is said that she never once alphabetized it.

You can see her charisma from space.

The police often question her, just because they find her interesting.

If a monument were built in her honor, Mt. Rushmore would close… due to poor attendance.

Her blood smells like perfume.

On every continent in the world, there is a sandwich named after her.

Bill Haverchuck wrote:

rojo wrote:

Does anyone know her pbs?

More relevant would be the PBs of athletes she's coached, before and after she worked with them. Though I imagine an Olympic assistant coach is more of a ceremonial title, since they all have their own coaches and are not going to be asking Rose Monday for workouts.

I know the distance coach for the men's team in London, and asked him about this.

He told me the official coach's role is two fold. The first is to serve as intermediary between athlete and coach. Because of the limited facilities, very few athlete coaches are able to get into the Olympic facilities to work with their proteges. So they instead provide workouts to the official coaches who then ensures the athletes do what they need to do. And in one or two cases he has athletes that self-coach, and he helps them with workouts, like timing or pacing on runs (he just mentioned helping Amy Hastings on a run by pacing her on a bike).

The other big job they fulfill is to ensure the athletes are where they need to be on time, whether it is for drug testing or for their next event. They are there to ensure there are no slip-ups, like the one year an American sprinter missed his race because of a scheduling screw up.

um. olympic coaches don't coach. not in track. its a vaction for the connected.

olympic athletes, please confirm this.

NOCHURCHINTHEWILD wrote:

um. olympic coaches don't coach. not in track. its a vaction for the connected.

olympic athletes, please confirm this.

Well I don't know what your source is for that, but I'm going off of what I was told speaking to an actual Olympic track coach. And he's an outstanding one, on top of being a great all around person...he wouldn't be going to the UK for an entire month unless he had a job to do. And believe me he's fulfilling an important one.

Rose Monday ran a PB of 2:00.17 on 21 August, 1987 at the ISTAF meet in [West} Berlin, DE.

rojo wrote:

fly a kite wrote:

If you haven't heard of Rose, please stop posting and go back to school as in fact you don't know anything and haven't earned the right to post yet.

I guess this means I should shut down LetsRun.com as I'll confess I've never heard of her myself.

Does anyone know her pbs?

She was 5th in the second semi final at the '84 OT in 2:03.45 while running for Puma Energizers.

She ran 2:05.05 to finish 7th in the first semi final of the '88 OT while competing for Track West.

She was 8th [and last] in the 4th heat in the '92 OT, running 2:09.36.