The Boston Marathon twitter account just tweeted this...
"Terrence Mahon has joined the Boston Athletic Association to lead & coach a high performance distance running initiative for the BAA"
The Boston Marathon twitter account just tweeted this...
"Terrence Mahon has joined the Boston Athletic Association to lead & coach a high performance distance running initiative for the BAA"
Link? Source?
I didn't see it wrote:
Link? Source?
He gave you the source.
Neither @bostonmarathon nor @B_A_A_ are showing anything like that.
Thanks. Interesting. I wonder about athletes and sponsorship. Is there an adidas connection?
Awesome stuff. Very exciting for the boston area.
heyyo wrote:
Awesome stuff. Very exciting for the boston area.
Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.
Well, the three most prominent athletes who followed Mahon to England all were collegians in the Northeast. Not everyone wants to head west.
winter sux.. wrote:Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.
Worse than Michigan? The Hansons have made it work.
Swiss Charizard wrote:
winter sux.. wrote:Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.Worse than Michigan? The Hansons have made it work.
At least they have good areas to train on, dirt roads and trails. What are you gonna do in Boston, run up and down the charles?
winter sux.. wrote:
Swiss Charizard wrote:Worse than Michigan? The Hansons have made it work.
At least they have good areas to train on, dirt roads and trails. What are you gonna do in Boston, run up and down the charles?
Maybe they will be in the suburbs somewhere. I can't imagine they will do all their running in the city.
winter sux.. wrote:
At least they have good areas to train on, dirt roads and trails. What are you gonna do in Boston, run up and down the charles?
Ummm... ever heard of the Greater Boston Track Club?
this guy had a real hard time training in boston in the winter:
They'll come to train wherever the money is and in the process the winter will toughen them up. The BAA is showing, unlike some other sub-elite/elite organizations, that they have the money to support the elite development in the US.
Rather than whining about Boston winters, you should be happy to see that someone in the US can afford to put money in the sport.
heyyo wrote:
this guy had a real hard time training in boston in the winter:
http://d3a31eoark0biy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_d51f7324957b48dfa07640a30f3c2ea1_rodgers_bill_605x390.jpgThey'll come to train wherever the money is and in the process the winter will toughen them up. The BAA is showing, unlike some other sub-elite/elite organizations, that they have the money to support the elite development in the US.
Rather than whining about Boston winters, you should be happy to see that someone in the US can afford to put money in the sport.
Not whining about it, I live here, I'm living it. But, if I was younger and still running well, I would get the heck out of here and go to Bend, Boulder, Flagstaff, or even Portland where there are great trails, plenty of varied terrain, long hills, and better weather on a year round basis.
BTW, Billy used to go to Arizona in the winters to train, he saw the light.
The big question is can he surpass Mike Mahon as the top "Mahon" on Boston's running scene?
winter sux.. wrote:
heyyo wrote:Awesome stuff. Very exciting for the boston area.
Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.
Yeah. It totally wrecked Rodgers, Beardsley, Meyers and Benoit.
A lot of teams take trips South in the winter
winter sux.. wrote:
heyyo wrote:Awesome stuff. Very exciting for the boston area.
Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.
This attitude is why the US was so much better in the 70's and 80's. Training location has very little to do with success. Take a look at that thread about Maryland marathon in the 70's and see where people lived.
Which is more important running water or dirt roads? How about medical or altitude? Yet this silly board wants Ryan Hall to train in Kenya.
Shut up and run 120-140 miles a week and quit looking for something else to be the answer. Boston is great. Flagstaff is great. Michigan is great. Boulder is great. The location is meaningless.
Old school rocks wrote:
winter sux.. wrote:Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.
This attitude is why the US was so much better in the 70's and 80's. Training location has very little to do with success. Take a look at that thread about Maryland marathon in the 70's and see where people lived.
Which is more important running water or dirt roads? How about medical or altitude? Yet this silly board wants Ryan Hall to train in Kenya.
Shut up and run 120-140 miles a week and quit looking for something else to be the answer. Boston is great. Flagstaff is great. Michigan is great. Boulder is great. The location is meaningless.
The most miles I ran in one year was 5565 back in 1981, I lived in New hampshire at the time. I've been there and done that, there are better places and if you want to do it right, go and find them.
Old school rocks wrote:
winter sux.. wrote:Why would anyone want to come to the boston area to train? There are so many better places to be a distance runner.
This attitude is why the US was so much better in the 70's and 80's. Training location has very little to do with success. Take a look at that thread about Maryland marathon in the 70's and see where people lived.
Which is more important running water or dirt roads? How about medical or altitude? Yet this silly board wants Ryan Hall to train in Kenya.
Shut up and run 120-140 miles a week and quit looking for something else to be the answer. Boston is great. Flagstaff is great. Michigan is great. Boulder is great. The location is meaningless.
you mean like when you have to do a 10-mile tempo run and 2 feet of snow were just dumped overnight and it's 10 degrees out? your tempo gets canceled but your competitors training in arizona or san diego get to do their workouts as planned.
