Autumn 2007 - British Milers Club

avoid “ugly fats”. Females in severetraining often do not menstruatewhich leads to loss of bone densityand prone to fractures. This occurswhen a female’s healthy weight fallsmore than 10% below Slillman’sspecifications. The simple answeris to look at the latest scientificfindings on prevention, whichinvolve the BIG THREE – 1 –1,000mg vitamin C daily. 2 –1,000mg calcium daily. 3 – Boronmineral tablets as prescribed bychemists or health food shops.Boron research is truly amazing inpreventing osteoporosis.6. Don’t eat the same food two daysconsecutively.The great thing about THE COACHmagazine issued quarterly under theauspices of AW is that our BMC man,Dave Lowes, is a regular writer withclarity and logic. Now, there are atleast a hundred runners to every fieldeventathlete and according to the lawof averages the journal’s content shouldreflect this. We can also back up thatfact with estimation that there are twohundred running coaches for everyfield-event trainer. However, the editorseems to have a bias for non-practicalarticles of a highly theoretical bent oneverything bar running. One articlewas followed by nearly four pages ofreferences! What a waste of space!This is a magazine for coaches, notscientists.The first editor realised that letters fromreaders were an important item ofdebate; the second editor chose toignore readers’ views.One regular contributor is a noted anti-BMC crank who has attached the clubvia various media outlets. It is amazingthat the owner of this journal, who is aBMC Vice President, should permit thisman space for his banal meanderings.He is currently writing on anatomy andphysiology, which can be read in FrankDick’s book of 20 years standing.Each issue should include interviewswith some of the BMC’s finest coaches,Poole, Gandy, Cain, Thompson, Coeand Turnball. A little tip if you wantsomething published, if you use atypewriter no matter how good thecontent, it won’t get published. It hasto be on a word processor, too muchbother to get it done again on a wordprocessor. This didn’t seem to botherthe first editor, let us hope it doesn’tworry the third editor just appointed.There may be a case for two differenttypes of COACH magazine, one for fieldevents and one for all aspects ofrunning. We hear that a stuff-shirtSenior Coach complained to the BMCAdministrator over the content of FrankHorwill’s column in the last issue.Frank took to task the arrogant conductof a paid UK Athletics coach at twomeetings and his slimy tittle tattle to hisimmediate endurance boss. Strange tosay, many thought it was somethingthat should be aired andcongratulations were forthcoming. Theidentity of the complaining coach hasnot been revealed but it seems he isthe type who would have grovelled tothe governing body in the past whenfaced with unfair criticism. Can anational coach serve two masters? Wehear that a national coach for a runningevent for which he is paid a salary hasalso been appointed the endurancecoach for a university and appears ontheir track three days a week. Onehopes that the other days of the weekare devoted to lectures, seminars andtraining days for the event for which hewas appointed. Alas, his particularevent is the weakest of all theendurance events. Perhaps UK Athleticsshould ask all national event coachesfor a detailed report every month onhow they have earned their salary.Golden timessub 1:45.0 marks.sub 3:34.0 marks.sub 3:53.0 (mile)Coe 23Elliott 15McKean 18Cram 18Ovett 12Elliott 9Cram 16Coe 11Ovett 12Cram 16Elliott 8Coe 5N.B. Johnny Gray 65!!!N.B. Walker 24, Scott 25,Maree 1612 BMC News : Autumn 2007