Lydiard Movie needs to be made to influence our young runners!

Endurance. Also, a movie based on The Perfect Mile is said to be in the works. I'd encourage young athletes to read Once a Runner. That book changed my mileage views completely.

Endurance was a true runner's movie, but it really doesn't have the ability to make young runners think for themselves and be inspired in an intelligent manner that could come from learning Lydiard's life story and mission

time for a change wrote:

A Chariot's of Fire/

That apostrophe is completely unnecessary!

What? Eric Liddell was an awesome person and the movie was good too and I ain't even a christian.

damn straight

as Arthur Lydiard , Frankie Moniz as Peter Snell and Keenan and Kel as Geb and Bekeile will defintely get my kids off the couch.

Lydiard was about running all the time. I don't know if young people--or old people--would be inspired by watching film of some guys cranking out mile after mile after mile.

I'm just saying it would be a hard movie to make exciting. There's not a lot of inherent drama in Lydiard's philosophy. In fact, that's one reason why they're so successful--his ideas aren't flashy or gimmicky. He was about sound, proven, repetitive, long-distance training. The Trial of Miles might make for a boring movie.

Something tells me you didn't get smiley faces for creativity in grade school.

First, there's the amazing backdrop of Aukland, NZ with its lush mountains and oceans. A shoe maker from a rugby background with a wife and kids questions all training philosphies up to that period of time and dismissing all of them and starting from scratch. He tests his own body in the nearby Waitakeres mountain range. The neighborhood kids ask for his coaching help. His sons, himself and these local kids train together. The local kids become Olympic champions. The strain on his family is huge as he dedicates his life to coaching. He gets divorced, his daughter isn't on the best terms. His athletes set him up for taking on the world stage. The list of athletes is long. the relationship with the athletes heavy with drama. The Finnish athletic association hands over their entire program to Lydiard. their top runners go to train in tropical climates while Lydiard stays in Finland with Viren. double gold. South American countries recruit him and try telling him what to do, he walks. Japanese implement his teachings and their coach becomes a god in their eyes as he announces he knows Lydiard's training moreso than Lydiard. The entire time, all the way to his death, he faces adversity and will forever so even after death. He influences Bowerman and Wetmore in person. His story teaches proper training principles, physiology, technique, the lesson of not searching for instant gratification in athletics, which is deeply rooted in all of us in either athletics, finances, careers.

The backdrops, landscapes, number of athlete doubles, stories and relationships with family, athletes, coaches, athletic organizations. the potential for a firey tale. Don't think this story has potential? watch Seven Years in Tibet, Far and Away, The Hurricane. His story would be a masterpiece, not a documentary but a story that makes us all think and then rethink what we think we know.

Chris Lear, are you out there jotting this down?

Well that settles it! Where's this movie playing? Is there nudity? Excellent!!

wow time for a change, that was the post of the day.

Vigil has tried to streamline coaching with track and field certified coaching programs, but there are still so many terrible hs and even college coaches.

With College athletics, the athlete can make a choice as to where they are going to run.

With High School athletics, you run for the coach at the high school for where you are zoned to go to attend. If you get stuck with a coach who says, "everyone else is injured, so it's naturual that you're injured also...you have to run indoor...you better run faster or I'm taking you off of the state team" even though you've been running xc-indoor with non stop anaerobic work. What choice does the athlete have if they truely want to run in college? The kid who won Footlockers this past year had a coach who worked with him as he did 3 x the mileage of his peers. What does an athlete do who has an ego for a coach?

A movie aimed at educating runners may be one of the better tools for providing ammunition for these young athletes in these unforsakable circumstances.

When I was in high school, Without Limits had just come out. As a joke, anytime we wanted to alter a workout or do something a little crazy, like running over a car, we would just tell our coach, "Pre Did It!" It was amazing at how he couldn't really argue with it. We were state high school champs with our top 5 runners coming take the top 5 spots within 4 seconds of each other. I'm glad a movie was able to influence how we could take a mediocre coach and get what we needed out of him. Too bad Without Limits didn't go into training in much detail. Hence the reason a riveting movie on Lydiard could make an impact.