Not listening
I confess that you are right, but the problem in this case that´s not the english, is that I read the e-mails and posts in the “diagonal” do you know what´s that, is to pass the eyes in a text, whe i´m working iin another project in my PC and a few times I don´t read all the e-mail or post.
To be direct to your early question – Yes. I did e-mail him. The same e-mail several times, but he never send me a reply. But i´m not upset by the fact. That´s quite irrelevant in the process.
Then I did the same to hadd when he post that he knows me and that I lived in the coasts of spain, and he never reply.
And that in that e-mail I also said that I consider him one of the world best coaches and that I admire a lot is marginal/outsider attitude face to the American running status, with a great incidence in the poor school and high school training – really bad – the coach wins 5 times more than me and simply don´t want to work and care for their runners (well there are good professionals, I still mention the main stream) and the competitive system and all calendar that´s a complete absurd, they pit the kids to compete in 2-3-4-5 runs in a weekend and on and on.
Don´t doubt. JK is years of light in advance from the main stream of american coaches. Unhappily that kind of genius they hardly are considered by the time they live.
Recently when Wejo (right?) said that he just runs for a “shirt and a house” which means that he is not a materialist man, i´ve got more respect for him. Also I see some similarities with me in that attitude. But i´m still looking for a good job as a coach (LOL).
Regarding the article, I see that i´m like a turtle, a slow runner, it takes time and effort (and aggressively) to made you understand my opinion but sometimes I finally reach the finish line.
When you say “…As you just said, JK (because he did not know all the details) took the wrong impression from your article on Rui Silva, maybe because that suited what he wanted to hear, or it suited the point he wanted to make in his article…”
Ther´s no need to say more, you got that ! Now, simply imagine (or believe me) that in the same texts/posts that JK did about Rui article - JK do lots of that mistakes.
One more detail to made you understand . The reason I have a poor english, is the same reason that even in Portuguese i´ve not a very fluent (easy) speech. My sentences are very complex and with a complex construction- a few they think that´s aggressively. Then when that to put that idea in english…But as far as I understand JK he was a surprise for me – that´s not a main stream american coach to write about training, that’s a elite expression of their ideas.
“…So chill out, Antonio, and relax. No-one on here is against you….” I will stay here as long as you reply me and i´m happy to be here.