Comments on: a simple twist of fate?

By: Francis riverin

Francis riverin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:58:39 +0000

I used to be one of Alex L’heureux very good friend and i miss him.He is the most determined guys in the world and has such great talent in everything he does.I lost touch with him cause after my years of high school at palm beach gardens high school and moved back to my home town in montreal canada and we have never spoke again.i realy do miss him and if ever i could get back in touch with him it would mean so much to me so here it is Alex my email is francis504@hotmail.com please get in tough if you ever come across this message you true friend always francis riverin

By: songs of experience » do not go gentle

songs of experience » do not go gentle — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:42:03 +0000

[...] My “elite” training group is really beginning to take shape. I already told you about Alex L’Heureux and newcomer Jason Jabaut (along with my old war horse, John Hinton) in past posts … but let me tell you a little about Devin Swann. First of all, as the former distance coach of UNC Chapel Hill, I had to overcome my own prejudice against NC State runners to agree to coach Devin. It’s silly, I know (because we’re all adults, right?) that I should hang on to sophomoric notions like, “Duke is puke and Wake is fake, but the team I hate is NC State!” I don’t know why State hated us back; our guys were never a threat in cross-country. Never. NC State won ACC’s as a team, like, a zillion times. Granted, I did have an individual champion or two and we did score more points than both Wake and State in distance at the 1997 ACC track meet [after which I “anonymously” painted our point totals on the steeple barrier under cover of darkness - Sunday night - so the team could read it when they came to practice on Monday. Of course, when our throws coach saw my graffiti, he groused, “You better paint over that before Craddock - head coach - sees it.”]. I did paint over it (I wish now I hadn’t) but no one can erase our moment of glory!! [...]

By: songs of experience » athlete update

songs of experience » athlete update — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:49:46 +0000

[...] The guy I started coaching in February, ran a 2.5 second PR in the 1,500m last week … 3:44.1 His final race of the season will be the Canadian national championships on August 4th. We’re hoping for a 3:42 and because of the following work-out, I think he will get it: [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:13:08 +0000

Joan, your response to Alex says so much and does it so well (it also makes me even more frustrated with my never-healing knee injury; I want so much to just put on a pair of shorts and shoes and head out for a long trail run or a hard track workout or even just a recovery day, thinking about a race on the horizon (anyone for the covered bridges half-marathon in June?)). You really ought to publish a book so that we can have a beginning and a long middle to dwell on, although the piecemeal approach that blogging offers is pretty good too.