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Wednesday 11 February 2009

TrainingBible UK's Official Launch at TCR

Apologies for my lack of blogging recently, January has proved to be a very busy month for TrainingBible Coaching and we have just had our official launch at the TCR show at Sandown Park. Many thanks to the hundreds of people that came up and said 'Hello' at our stand and enquired about coaching and training, we are busy processing all the information and will getting information and details of coaching plans out this week. Our Head Coach Joe Friel was over from the US for the week and was really impressed by the buzz around endurance sports in the UK.

Joe is one of those guy's that every time I spend time in his company I come away feeling a little wiser, he has a gentle and understated way that really allows his great knowledge to be accessible to all. Coupled with that he has a rare ability to explain complex concepts in a way that everyone can understand without loosing the real meaning of the original thoughts. Over the last few days we have had numerous discussions about coaching and mentoring and as it works out we both had great role models to shape our thoughts, beliefs and behaviours as coaches.

I feel fortunate to have been coached by another legendary athletics coach when I was a young middle distance runner (Many years ago now!), Frank Horwill at 80+ years old remains one of the truly great athletics coaches.

Both Frank and Joe have many similarities whilst being very different personalities. Both are endlessly curious, always asking why and what if questions, They both research extensively and use that research to experiment, always looking for ways to improve their athletes performance.

They are both prepared to stand up and speak out against the received wisdom of the time even if that is not popular or flavour of the month. They are both systematic and use data intelligently to back up their intuitive feel with their athletes. Many similarities indeed, if you are fortunate enough to get to spend any time with great guy's such as these my advice is take the opportunity to listen carefully and ask lots of questions, as no doubt you will walk away feeling the way I still do feeling just a little bit wiser each time.
As Frank says 'Keep going Comrades, Keep going! :-)



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