Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, December 13, 2004 Some thoughts on LydiardThe running coach, Arthur Lydiard, died Sunday. Here's a news report from ESPN.Lydiard coached Peter Snell. Peter is, as you may or may not know, an orienteer and a regular at the annual Texas Junior Orienteering Camp. Thinking about Lydiard reminded me of a question that has been in my thoughts for a few weeks -- how much does coaching and management matter? How much of Peter Snell's success was due to Lydiard? How much of Lydiard's success was due to Peter? In the orienteering context, these questions are analogous to: How much of Sweden's WOC success is due to Goran Andersson and Marita Skogum? How much of Karolina Hojsgaard's success is due to Skogum? I talked about these sort of questions with Peter at TJOC a couple of years ago. I won't write what he said because it was just a private conversation. But, maybe a touch of Peter's thoughts on the matter show up in an interview published in tomorrow's New Zealand Herald. Here is a bit of interview with Peter: "You spend a couple of years doing absolutely everything your coach tells you," Snell said yesterday. "But, at the same time you make your own observations. I did not really enjoy automatically doing what the coach told me to do. Some of what I said was reported back to Arthur. "His response was basically ‘do what I tell you or move on’. I did what I was told. "Basically, I was a high-achiever waiting for someone to find me. Arthur did." You might also want to check out the lead story about Lydiard from the New Zealand Herald. posted by Michael | 7:06 PM 
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