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What is the correlation between speed and coaching?  At the risk of painting with a broad brush, it seems our best coaches were slow athletes.  Yes, slow may be a coaching prerequisite. Thirteen of the eighteen track events are athlete-developers.  We need to make sprint, jump, and throw performances understandable to slow people.  Just because a football coach never ran 100 meters in 10.55 should not keep them from attending meets.

Track coaches everywhere face significant obstacles.  By sharing my challenges, I hope to help other coaches overcome theirs.  The only way my track program can excel is through promotion and recruitment.  We must work harder than the ball-sports.

Coach Holler discusses sprint training in the context of human energy systems.

I am proud to say that I am a life-long learner.  I read and I read and I read.  I observe successful educators and question their ideas.  I also learn from the mistakes of others. However, it's hard to look back on my younger days without some remorse.  “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” - Mark Twain

Fifteen years ago I found a better way of coaching sprinters.  To sum it up, I began coaching quality over quantity.  You don't get fast by running slow.