Every year TBC has an annual coaches meeting. We get
together with the other TBC coaches from across the country to share ideas,
learn the latest and greatest, do some updating, planning and brainstorm with
some of the best coaches around including the founder of Trainingbible, Joe
Friel! Last year we were lucky enough to
have the meeting in sunny warm San
Diego , this year, not so lucky. …..a cold January
Chicago weekend. Travel was minimal, but I could have really used the warm sun
to help speed my recovery from the nasty flu. Fitting in workouts and the kid’s
activities around a weekends worth of meetings is always challenging and
stressful, but somehow we managed to keep it together, the house is still
standing in 1 piece.
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| These 2 managed to fit in their long brick, and watch NFL and heat up the basement |
There is always so much great information from the meetings,
and walk away with some really great stuff to work with into the coming year. TBC has some exciting new things in the works
that I can’t wait to see get released. There were great talks from Joe and Dr.
Post as usual, but this year we learned about bike racing strategies from Rob
Kelley, coaching juniors from Chris Palmquist and a very fun talk by Joe Lotus
on the athlete’s perspective. …..the brutal truth on what the athletes think of
their coaches!
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| Joe likes to talk |
And, I never get tired of
hearing Ryan Bolton talk about coaching his Kenyan runners. Did you know his
athlete Caroline Rotich was 4th at the 2011 Boston Marathon, and 5th
at 2012 Chicago Marathon?
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| stealing some run speed |
And as always
Jim Vance shared the latest on social media tips, ideas to save time
or help with coaching. I am time crunched, and not the best with technology and Jim always has a new idea app or device I've never heard of to help make life easier.
The best part of the whole weekend though is hanging out with a
great group of friends/coaches who are all crazy smart and have so much to offer
to Trainingbible. Each coach has a
unique specialty and background that adds to making TBC so fabulous.
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