Ange, I appreciate you keeping this site up and I often look back at many old threads-still very informative.
Thanks Pioneer.
"Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
MARY ELIZABETH FRYE
I got a call the other day from a former team mate of Charlie’s from Stanford.
" I was a teammate of Charlie’s at Stanford and have been aware of his time after graduation at the Pan-Am trails qualified him for the list of Stanford top 10, 100m runners in history. Well, after lobbying occasionally for some years, I was able to get him on the list as the number two 100m runner in the school history. His 10.1 time was handed, and they have converted it to 10.34"
This is a vanity site, why am I dragging around the past and etc.,
Sharing is not a bad thing.
Caring is certainly a good thing.
Making the most of what you have and being on the right side of things.
Old fashion values like hard work and doing onto others as you might like them to do onto you, excite me.
We are not here for a long time. We don’t know that.
Charlie did not care or expect me to keep this site. Who cares what he wanted or thought. I care and have cared and he…
Charlie did not have to over share with the planet what he did and how he accomplished creating one of the best group of track stars in Canada and the world to date and he did it with love, with grit and financed the adverture with monies he had from selling something he also loved and cared about his fancy Aston Martin sports car.
Dreams are exciting to have. I hope you have found this free forum interesting and useful as a coach, athlete, parent, athlete.
Celebrate yourself right now by honoring your passion. If that passion happens to be sport of any kind, I strongly encourage you to learn from one of the best.
Go make stuff happen for you.
Cheers,
Coach Angé Coon
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The past is relevant only how it may serve you.
I like posting on this thread as it’s a reminder of how fragile life is and how many of us take now for granted.
I’ve got a few male friends who remind me of this often. One is my son and the other my brother. Both are amazing humans and have been through stuff. What human hasn’t been through stuff?
Hilariously the site has experienced a slow death. NO. it has not. In fact, my keeping this site around has been fantastic for me,my family and all of you whom I am most grateful for.
We need to cherish cool stuff and we need to honor it but we also want to be who we are, appreciate others and in my mind practice old school rules.
Sport needs all of us who care about sport to be a voice of love, experience and an offering for those whom benefit from our sharing.
I thank you for your patience.
I appreciate so much your care for one person’s work. But realize it’s not one person. Charlie relied on his amazing athletes and many, many others to get the results he did. I know lots of people like to talk about drugs but drugs are a part of modern life now arent’they? This fact doesnt make it good and it’s especially not good for athletes who may not be educated on topics of the past or current happenings.
I am headed to the gym to get strong, stay strong and support my natural immunity.
Talk soon,
Coach Ange Coon
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What do I know for sure.
My coach who also was my rock and my husband and the father of our son used to tell me to work backwards from what I know for sure.
- I am happy I have kept this site online in spite of him telling me it did not matter. All he cared about was how I was doing and how our son was doing,
- Sport is still one of the best parts of my life and I am grateful to have been blessed with good health and drive to stay fit as I age.
- Track and field continues to be one of the best sports in the world. It would be great if someone, best canidtate would be one of the top stars in the sport, take Track and elevate it’s methods to a standard for coaches and athletes to THRIVE at the level many other sports enjoy.
- It was a big deal for Charlie to create a forum operated by him for free and use it as a place to educate, mentor and connect with coaches and athletes. This happen in 2001 and it’s cool to see a variety of smart, interesting and accomplished people share the same way yet they have so many more tools to add to our experience to improve performance and wellness at the same time.
- Training for track on or off the competitive stage continues to be a solid method to get fit, stay fit, have fun, compete at any age and offer the chance to align one’s goals with feeling great, looking great and MAYBE compete at the same time.
Thanks to all of you for your ongoing support and interest.
Remembering Charlie
October 13th 1948 - May 12th 2010
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Just stay comforted in the good moments but adjust your spiritual focus.
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I’m enjoying the site and the vast amount of information on it. So i would like to thank you for keeping it alive.
Cheers,
Robert
Thanks Robert.
Charlie has been gone 15 years now and I never stop missing him.
Terrible hey? Not really as he was my friend and he was an amazing dad and it’s kinda interesting how everything he ever taught me about coaching, life and people has come true. He won’t ever stop watching over James and I and now Yujin who’s soon to become part of our little family. She’s amazing and James has grown up to be as Charlie always saw him, a fine young person.
What a lovely comment and you are right about my spiritual focus. Wise words and thank-you so much.