Old timers here will likely remember Dallas, the guy who was with Mike Young but also listening to Charlie here. At one point he had one of the fastest 55m times in the world and was a clear hopeful for the 2008 Olympics. And then, he got connected up with a bunch of charlatans (my opinion but not unique to me) at Innosport, Mike Young ultimately dropped him because he started doing different (wrong) training, and his attempt turned into a case study of how NOT to train for the Olympics. He made his own decisions, but many of us here at the time felt absolutely terrible about what happened to him.
Well. at least in speed/power events, there is life after death:
Push athletes Steve Langton, Justin Olsen and Curt Tomasevicz helped the “Night Train” sled driven by Holcomb to the world title last year, and all are back this season. Coaches chose nine other men’s push athletes as well: Adam Clark, Johnny Quinn, Chuck Berkeley, Laszlo Vandracsek, Chris Fogt, Dallas Robinson, Jesse Beckom, Andreas Drbal and Nic Taylor.
Nice to see. He had a ton of raw talent, if he would have stuck with Mike or Charlie I think he could have had a career like Ryan Bailey. Those two remind me of each other.
Wasn’t Dallas on the national rugby team at some point too?
with Mike Young yes, but not sure he was actually listening to Charlie as if he had things may well have been significantly different. The cynic in me wonders if this will be like his track and rugby 7’s careers as yes Stikki he was on the squad.
drob9 writes: Oh and the reason I haven’t been on here for so long was because I was told I don’t need to visit or post on this site any longer. That being said all the information that I gathered and all of the coaching I put myself through… AKA my indoor times and results came from Charlie’s training guides/ or this site… basically that is a thank you for having this site as a resource.
Great for Dallas! It is good to hear he is doing well.
Also great to go back and read Charlie’s posts and recommendations. I saw from Dallas’ bio he participated in the US Army World Class Athletes Program. I am not sure if he took my recommendation, but I was one who recommended the program to him about 4 years ago when he was in need of a sponsor. Charlie
I just re-read the drob thread; my apologies to Mike Young, my memory was way off. I don’t go to Elitetrack so I don’t know too much about him. Clearly Dallas was influenced by guys who were in way over their heads with his level of talent.
There are some incredible takeaways from the thread. I have to say, it’s amazing the politics that rear their ugly heads once an athlete starts to run fast. You can sit in a facility as an athlete for YEARS where no coach will pay a lick of attention to you, and as soon as you drop a time half of them want to be your best friend, while the other half are looking for anything negative they can find!
It’s great to see that Dallas figured things out in the end. The man is a beast.
I’d love to see him post something now that he’s a few years removed from his sprint aspirations and see what he thinks he did right and what mistakes he thinks were made. It could help a lot of other athletes.