Hi robert,
I read over part of the Mary Cain story. Had a few thoughts. Sounds a lot
like Jim Ryun (last, best-to- this-day top great US high school miler from
his first race until he was beaten unexpectedly by the first nobody at the
Olympics from Ethiopia/Kenya). Every single highschool track "star" will
get beaten sooner or later. Recently Salazar had a heart attack while out
on an easy run; Ray Rohatinsky (the highschool track star who beat your
brother first)'s son and another guy carried him back to help. It is
undoubtedly true highschool runners are a jumpy bunch; ask Dad. Creating
the perfect coach would be even harder than creating the perfect athlete;
they are much rarer. This is not child's play (what is it exactly???)
like beating a chess master. So there.
By the way, I got my way and got the treadmill, but it looks like they
probably couldn't get my pulse fast enough so there is a good chance I will
have to repeat it with the nasty injection. Right now I am too radioactive
to get over the border without my special letter from the doctors; I do not
plan to try it out as I do not care to visit Algeria courtesy of the
IA. --Tiggah
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert DuWors
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 12:05 PM
To: Richard DuWors
Subject: Oh the cheek of some people
Who does this chippie think she is, breaking 41 year old records? Kids
these days...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/magazine/mary-cain-is-growing-up-fast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Does it make you think how primitive track coaching was back in the day?
"Scientific" as you noted was a euphemism.
Kind of scary how far things have now gone at the top. The next
generation of wearable devices backed by internet resources will be an
even larger transition. Races will be won either by what you wear and
what the "deep learning" back end says to run unless they are banned in
competition, or by the same thing done during training. Coaches? Like
most knowledge workers easily automated in five to ten years with the
ability to review thousands of races, billions of data points,
proprietary real time and long term training strategies, and highly
individualized athletic profiles - profiles that hackers will be paid
big bucks to steal. Yeah, it is that close.
I read over part of the Mary Cain story. Had a few thoughts. Sounds a lot
like Jim Ryun (last, best-to- this-day top great US high school miler from
his first race until he was beaten unexpectedly by the first nobody at the
Olympics from Ethiopia/Kenya). Every single highschool track "star" will
get beaten sooner or later. Recently Salazar had a heart attack while out
on an easy run; Ray Rohatinsky (the highschool track star who beat your
brother first)'s son and another guy carried him back to help. It is
undoubtedly true highschool runners are a jumpy bunch; ask Dad. Creating
the perfect coach would be even harder than creating the perfect athlete;
they are much rarer. This is not child's play (what is it exactly???)
like beating a chess master. So there.
By the way, I got my way and got the treadmill, but it looks like they
probably couldn't get my pulse fast enough so there is a good chance I will
have to repeat it with the nasty injection. Right now I am too radioactive
to get over the border without my special letter from the doctors; I do not
plan to try it out as I do not care to visit Algeria courtesy of the
IA. --Tiggah
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert DuWors
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 12:05 PM
To: Richard DuWors
Subject: Oh the cheek of some people
Who does this chippie think she is, breaking 41 year old records? Kids
these days...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/magazine/mary-cain-is-growing-up-fast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Does it make you think how primitive track coaching was back in the day?
"Scientific" as you noted was a euphemism.
Kind of scary how far things have now gone at the top. The next
generation of wearable devices backed by internet resources will be an
even larger transition. Races will be won either by what you wear and
what the "deep learning" back end says to run unless they are banned in
competition, or by the same thing done during training. Coaches? Like
most knowledge workers easily automated in five to ten years with the
ability to review thousands of races, billions of data points,
proprietary real time and long term training strategies, and highly
individualized athletic profiles - profiles that hackers will be paid
big bucks to steal. Yeah, it is that close.
Hi Richard. This is Ron Holland, a close friend of Gregg Nelson back in my Saskatoon days. I'm not sure that you will receive this note as it is few years since you entered your original comment. Send me an e-mail (codger425@hotmail.com) if you would like to chat. Cheers, Ron Holland Camrose, Alberta
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