Episode 01: Bobby McGee – Six Time Olympic Running Coach talks about Primal Running - Triathlon Research Radio
Summary: Triathlon Research iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/triathlon-research-radio/id844093567?mt=2) Unleash the primal runner within with help from 6-time olympic running coach Bobby McGee. [Click To Tweet] (http://ctt.ec/z3CbM) Six time Olympic Running Coach Bobby McGee shares stories from his early days of running and run coaching. In this episode you’ll hear techniques that will help you become a better endurance runner. 01:02 Bobby shares his history of growing up in South Africa and feeling the pressure on the sporting world from the apartheid. 14:19 The difference between runners in the US and runners from South Africa 16:50 Examples on how to open up the proprioceptive set points 20:35 Bobby talks about the ranges of motion of the top triathletes and runners “In terms of blood flow, function, and range of motion... one of the worst culprits is a car seat” 24:05 How to eliminate the things that are holding you back “We don’t have to train that hard, we just have to train that consistently”. If you look into the past of great athletes it’s mostly a question of them finding a way to do their training without breakdown. 27:24 Recovery time from a long run "The more work you can do… the more successful you will be” 31:25 How an age group triathlete can lower their run time. Bobby evaluates a good coach on only 2 things: 1. The athletes must get better from season to season 2. Those athletes must put out there best performances on the day the athlete and coach decide it was going to be the peak event 35:05 Differences between speed endurance and muscle endurance 43:34 Don’t spend a lifetime trying to figure out what works. Transcript Suzanne: This is Suzanne Atkinson and I’m here interviewing Bobby McGee tonight. And we are going to learn more about Bobby McGee, his background in coaching and how he’s been able to develop such a large following of rabid coaches and athletes who are all eager to hear his running advice. Bobby, you and I were just talking a second ago about you introduction into Run Coaching. Do you want to go ahead and just tell that short story? Bobby: Yes. I’ve been involved for a long time so I guess my introduction to Run Coaching was because I didn’t initially have a job as a track coach or a cross-‐ country coach, I coached hockey players. I didn’t get a chance to travel overseas in those days. There was apartheid and sports moratoriums and that sort of thing. And I didn’t really think of myself necessarily as the distance running coach but I knew I wanted to coach distance runners. While I was in the military I coached a couple of guys through their first marathon and that was a lot of fun. I was training for the same marathon as they were. But by the time 1986 rolled around, I got an opportunity to do bake sales and collect money and stuff like that so that I could travel internationally to go and talk to coaches. And I was kind of freed up to do that because South Africa was a long way from being readmitted into the international sporting arena. I was coaching in this country that was not a threat to anybody but I knew all the coaches. I knew Charles Elliott and Frank Halliwell and Harry Wilson and Walter Gladrow and a number of the other top coaches at the time. And I contacted them all to go and visit them and they had no idea who I was. Only two coaches turned me down; John Paul Olanzi, the Italian marathon coach turned me down and at that time it was the whole thing about the Conconi Curve was going on. There were being a lot of questions asked about the performance of the Italian athletes,
