My wife rang me on the way to work to tell me the news as she knew how I felt about how much I have been influenced by a guy I have never even met.
Since I picked up Speed Trap in a library as a young teenager and realised there was a higher level of coaching and thinking my athletics as an athlete and now as a coach has been largely shaped by the influence from afar. I have read Speed Trap almost every year since that first time when I would get the book on continual loan as I felt it too special to be allowed for just anyone to take it off the shelf and have it in their home without knowing what they were in possession of.
I hand a ‘loan out’ copy of the book to every athlete I coach as it is the closest thing I can get to have them understand what its all about.
The man had so much knowledge and was feeling giving of it. My condolences to his family and friends and the athletics world to have lost such an influence.
We need to keep this site alive in his memory and continue to spread his word.