Dessert Dude? What? Does he love pies a lot? I guess we will be talking about baked goods. What? Oh, Desert Dude! I guess we will be talking about sand and snakes.
9 out of 10 Slowtwitchers agree. Do you? Which 9 out of 10 are agreeing on something, that will determine if I do? But probably not, 9 out of 10 STers agreeing means it’s only half right to completely wrong.
I’ll put you down as disagree. Trouble maker.
Where you from? Originally Mom, but we lived outside of Philly for my first 6.5 years.
Thank God you escaped!
Where you at? Tucson, AZ. We currently are not accepting applications for people to move here.
Uh yeah. No applications. Fiddelysticks! No waterless sun baked hell for me. Shoot!
What are you riding? A QR Lucero although i’m shopping for a new/used TT bike/frame, A Breezer for my grocery getter once I buy a lock, and a Felt F4. I also have a Giant TCR w/ Powercranks on it sitting somewhere in the house.
Very nice. I want hit the Powercranks because I kinda buy what Frank is saying.
How do you like them/it? QR - Love it. Felt it’s a really good road bike. The Breezer is the most fun I’ve had riding a bike. I laughed for the first 10 minutes that I rode it. Had to have it. It’s green, has a crappy seat with springs, fenders, wide beach cruiser handlebars and is an internal 3 speed. F*cking kicks ass as a beater bike. Best of all it was under my price limit that I set for a beater bike, so I had beer money left over.
I dare you to do a half iron on the Breezer.
How did you, of all people, become a coach? As a senior in high school near the end of summer, our swim team coach just quit. We get to the pool one morning no coach. The assistant coach shows up, instant promotion. They needed another coach, I would have been a good swimmer in college on the girls team (I was the only HS senior on the team out of 6 not going to college on a swimming scholarship). So they asked if I could help run practices the rest of the summer. Then in college I had some differences with my xc coach about how we should be training. Enough that I was asked not to run my final year. I moved back home to do the full time tri-training thing and called the swim team where I grew up swimming. Talked to the coach about swimming with them again. he offered me a job. Bingo! Sometimes you make your own luck. Being unemployed it seemed like the best of both worlds. Free swimming with the senior swimmers in the morning, coach for 4 hours in the afternoon and I got paid. My parents were charging me rent so I had to earn something so they didn’t toss me on the street. The coaches at the swim club were really good about asking me the why’s behind what I was doing and then explaining things to me. Even though I had graduated with an exercise science degree and had 18 hours towards my masters in exercise physiology done, I had absolutely no idea how to coach at that point. As I wrote more & more workouts and thought about things more, I could start to see how A influenced B which influenced C then D. Screw up B and the rest of the chain needs a rethink. I also had an uncanny knack for being able to fix swim strokes as well. After a bit, I moved to Tucson and was living with one of my best friends. He had at that time, the second largest online coaching company and about 70 clients. So I watched him coach athletes for a year and a half, asked him a ton of questions, bantered back and forth, wrote a ton of swim workouts for him to give to clients then eventually started coaching with there. The business started a bike racing team, I coached that, had lots of athletes win races and a state title in that first year, and we podiumed every race we entered the next season. The team broke apart but I had lots of cyclists who came to me wanting to work with me. It worked out that I could buy the legacy business that became Accelerate 3.
All of this knowledge and hard work and you won’t help jaylew.
Should you choose a coach based on his resume or if his coaching style fits you? For example I love readouts, spread sheets, written schedules and data of all kinds. If the most winning coaches hates all of that but a really good one love it should I go with the most winning or the one that does things how I like it? It boils down to trusting your coach and the coach trusting the athlete. Of course trust takes some time to build so then a personality you feel comfortable with during that period becomes very important. ** **The best coach for elite athletes may not understand the dynamics of a full time job, family, training and everything that comes along with those things or how to fit training into a real life. Trust me, it’s way easier to schedule training for someone who only trains then someone who is sticking it in around Susie’s soccer practice, the spouse’s job, and Jonny’s soccer practice which btw is on the same day as Susie’s on Tuesday but Susies has practice on Thursday, Jonny on Friday and each has a game on Saturday at different times 15 miles away. That is the reality of a full time worker with a family, if that is you, you need to find a coach who gets that. Coaching a full time athelete is a luxury. Both are hard work though, different and similiar. In some respect it’s more stressful having someone put their income earning ability into your hands. That being said, I’ve had athletes win money each of the last eight years. Ultimately though it works better when the coach thinks, plans, schedules the training, and the athlete does the training. I tell my athletes, I think, you do. You? Go with the winning love that does things your way. You may not be faster but you will be happier.
I can’t add anything there. Good answer.
**Do you believe that data vs. feeling is either or or do you feel both can be done at the same time? ** Feelings are great, I have one somewhere, but objective data is better in many respects. What did the objective measurement say? Either you did the work, or you laid down a fast time or you did not. You can feel great but feeling great doesn’t guarentee going fast.
I feel ya.
With Sutton’s stable bringing in the big wins do you think some coaches will add pedifilia to there coaching skills? Not you of course. Your awesome and a good person. Thanks for thinking I’m an awesomely good person! I don’t think many coaches are going to advertise that they are adding pedifilia to their skill set. Something about the FBI coming to visit…uninvited. Besides, most triathletes or coaches aren’t going to do so well in prison.
A triathlete in prison would be a sad thing. Oz proves that.
Have you ever wondered what slugs taste like? No, but grasshoppers are crunchy when grilled and not bad tasting.
Ants are good too. Slugs have a great lemon lime taste.
When I take over the world I will not allow you to coach triathlons instead you will be a high school teacher. What will you teach? I’ve already started a campaign to become the Supreme Dicktator of the World. I’ve got people lined up to vote for me (thanks Mom & Dad and a few others) and a campaign platform. I’ll be nice to you, you won’t get your own island, just a beach house with a wrap around porch for your better half. If I had to teach, which is like coaching only way, way, way worse I suspect (my dad taught), I’d like to teach something I’m more interested in then I was in high school. Which would be just about everything. Seems there is a big difference between being in school and being a student. Who knew?
Campaign? World rule by vote? The streets will run red with the blood of your supporters. Nothing personal but domination is a tough game.
If you where gay would you find me attractive? I think the better question to ask is would you find me attractive?
Oh yeah I would do ya.
How do you rank Peter Buck in the ranks of rock guitarist? I have to confess, I have no clue who this dude is. It’s obvious that he doesn’t play in a metal band, but probably some feel good, weak ass, radio friendly, my little sister beats me up and we sound like hootie and the blowfish type band. Serious, who does he play for? I just finished running and am too lazy to google him. On a side note, I’ve actually seen Hootie about 10x when they first got started and were opening for other bands. They were actually better when they headlined in front of huge crowds of 60 people.
Your so damn sad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxfDRYGtjw
Comfort or aerodynamics? Aero then comfort. ** **A good fit should realistically be both.
Interesting.
Me or David Bowie? Pfffft, like there is a choice? See 3 questions above.
You or Bowie? Do you think of anyone besides yourself?
Any advice for your fellow triathletes? Vote for me for Supreme Dicktator of the World. If you don’t and I win, which I will. I’m going to know you didn’t vote for me. I’ll come to your house and take your dog, in front of your spouse, your kids and the neighbors. It’ll be a block party, we’ll get to eat food from the grill, drink the best beer in the world. You, you get cold, moldy spam and 20oz of a backwashed 40
DOn’t worry people. He isn’t going anywhere.
Before we go do a killer set of squat thrusts do you have anything you would like to tell the people of Slowtwitch? Another set? We’ve already done 3 sets. I bet we can ride at least 5 watts faster because of those. But if you think it will help me cycle faster then lets do them!
Dessert Dude everyone!!! I mean Desert Dude! Catch his latest DVD “Rattle Snakes: Your key to low body fat.”
Hire him to coach you and you will go fast.
