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Supple enting TRACK & Fl LD NEWS twice monthly. Vol. 10, o. 8 ovember 20 , 1963 Page 57 Valeriy Brumel: My Coach Good Field Ready for NCAA Mee t by v aleny Brurnel (Reprinted from Soviet _\ eekly, courtesy Athletics Weekly) If all of the nation's top collegiate cross country runners show I met Vladimir Dyachkov in 1959, at the Central Sta dium in up at East Lansing for the CAA championships. ov. 25, it could be oscov, during the Soviet People's Games. I was doing badly and one of the fastest mass finishes in history. feeling fed up when thi s well-known trainer came up and assured me: San Jose State looks like the best bet for the team champion - "You'll jump '. You've all the attributes for it - vig or, temperament, ship but it's very difficultto pick an individual winner. As far as we boldness - but your technique i wron g. know T om O'Hara has not run a cross country race all season but he · ou '11 have to work very hard, and it's no good putting it off i& the defending CAA champion and could well repeat. Jim Keefe, until next summer. You must tart in the v inter .... ·· Jeff Fishback, and Vic Zwolak have all run in international com peti - At the end of the season I was included as a candidate for the tion. And then there is Danny Murphy, John Camiem, Ireland Sloan, USSR team , and the following January - Olympic year'. - met and Julio Marin (providing he runs) . Dyachkov in the gym. The top 22 collegiate harriers (by ov. 17) would probably It was difficult for me then to under tand the essence of include (in alphabetical ord er) Paul Acevedo (Kansas), Jack Bacbeler D achkov · s technical methods . I \ asn 't able to sen e the difference ~ami, 0), Elmore Banton (Ohio), Bruce Burston (Western Michigan), between correct and in orrec t movements. Jim Byard (Cornell), John Camiem (Emporia State), Al Carius (llli Dyachko ·s vigilant eye followed my every mo e, however. nois), Frank Car.ver otre Dame) , Bill Clark ( otre Dame), Laurie He noted each detail of incorrect movement and \ ith enormous Elliott (Houston), Jeff Fishback (Sm Jose State), Jim Keefe (Central patience untiringly explained to me the essence of my mistakes. (Connecticut), Robin Lingle (Missouri), Joe Lynch (Georgetown), Graduall . I learned to control my actions, and things moved Stephen Machooka (Cornell), Julio Marin (South ern California), Danny more rapidly. I a impatient to compete but Dyachkov was em - Murphy (San Jose State), Tom O'Ha ra (Loyol a), Andy Schramm (Miami, 0), Ireland Sloan (Emporia Sta te), Dick Sharke y (Michigan State), Bill phatic : ··, 10 competition until you have ma tered the correct run up anJ correct technique of pu h -<;ff".·· Str~ub (Army), Geoff Walker (Houston), and Vic Zwolak (Villanova). ·· ore im rtant than any vic tory at pre ent, · he aid, "i to otre Da me, rather than Villanov a, appears to be San Jose's merge the ne, technique into a single mooth sequence of movement, toughest rival. The other top teams includ e Cornell, Houston, Kan- to give them peed and se ure their performance in a new rhythm.· · sas, Miami, ·chigan State, Ohio, and Western Michigan. Dail · training ontinued \' ith unremitting hard work ... the trainer' demand grew all the time . There were theoretical di - cu ion - everything wa cientifically ba ed, everything planned, Cross Country Results everything ta en into a ·count. Oya h ov follo, ed e ery detail of a Jump, entering hi re - FLORIDA 22, MIAMI 35, Coral Gables, Fla ., Oct. 2& (4.2 mar· and opinion in a notebook. When the training ses ion ended, miles, perfectly flat) 1. Payne (M) 21:11; 2. Opperman (F); 3. he vor ·ed on hi note . ummarizing them in tables and graphs and Harrell (F) ; 4. Brown (F) . ·erving them up for further work. He taught u . too, to analyse our TERMO TAI R , Salt Lake City , Oct. 31: (3. 0 miles) a ·tion , our ·ondition. 1 . Paterson (MSC) 14:59.5 (new cou rse record); 2. Krenzer (PCCC) ; For in ranee, to determine my condition in the cour e of 3 . Baras (BYU); 4. Kocherhans (U); 5. Morgan (BYU). (no other training, it "a · ufficient for me to perform three jumps upward times available) Team Scores: 1. BYU 52; 2. Utah 59 ; 3. Utah St. from the ·pot. The height of the leap told me >1hat changes were 7 ; 4. ontana State College 79; 5 . Provo CC 96 ; 6. Weber 112. taking place in the functional tate of my nerve -mu cular y tern. HARVARD 20, PR CETO 39, YALE 76, ew Haven, Conn., 13 the end of the , inter my movement had improved. In my : ov. 1: (4 .45 miles, CR 23:06; cold damp, light rain) 1. Hewlett fir·t ·ompe titi on I ·ucceeded in improving m_ individual record, and (H) 23:09. 7; 2. Somers (P) 23 :32 ; 3. Crain (H) 23:47; 4. Meehan (H) al an athletic. mat h be een the Rus ian Federation, the Ukraine 23:59; 5. Bun ell (H) 24:02. and the citie · of Mo· ~ow and Leningrad. 1 experienced the joy of COLORADO I VITATIO AL, Boulder, Col., ov. 1: (3.0 vi ·tory for the fir t time in my life. miles, flat co urse, cool) 1 . Baker M) 14:37 .5; 2. Weighton (C) 13ut ucce · ·e · and joy· are not the athlete 's only companions~ 14:3 9. 5; 3 . Courkamp (D) 14:45. 7; 4. J,imes (D) 14:52. 5; 5. Cole he i. al ·o ac ·ompanied b_ di ·ap l).>intmen t . A leg injury so insigni man ( M) 15:03; 6. Griffith (C) 15:04.5. Team Scores: 1. ew Mexi fi ·ant that in ortlin ary life I would ne er ha e noti ed it prevented co 44; 2. Color ad c 46 ; 3. Denver 56; 4. Wyoming 77; 5. Col St 126. m frnm fulfillin g a mo t important detail in the new te -hnique. in a RUTGERS 19 , COLUMBIA 44, Van Cortlandt Park, Y, ov. movem nt during the tran ·ition to the push-off. 1: (5 .0 miles, CR 24:47 .3, cold and raining) 1 . Vanderveer (R) T imc wa · pent on treatment , m re ult deteriorated. 26:52.4; 2. Conway (C) 27:10; 3. Hennings (R) 27:28; 4. Badgley (R) failure folio, ed failure. and with each ne, ·ompetition my chances 27:30; 5. Vasey (R) 2 :20. of going to Rome le · ·ened. 1AVY26, MARYL 030, College Park, Md., ov. l: (4.1 l wa · worried. but the trainer remained calm. Training miles, CR , 20 :32. , wet and slippery) 1. Krueger (M) 20:02 (new .·e ion ·ont inued, and they included e ery exercise which did course reco rd) ; 2. Serm ie r ( ) 20:09; 3. Williams ( 20:17; 4. not aggravate in injury. Horton ) 20:29· 5. George (M) 20:46. Of great importance , a the moral support Dyachkov gave me. KA1 SAS FEDERATIO , Lawrence, Kan., ov. 2: (3 miles, Hi ·en iti iLy. care and ·alm ·onfidence in m power had their old CR 14:49.0, dry and fast) 1. Camien (ES) 14:11.8 (new CR); 7 effe ·t, and l u ·c cded in rea ·hing 2. 03 (6'7 "). 2. Sloan (ES) 14: 17; 3. Acevedo (K) 14: 27; 4. Hadley (K) 14: 38; 5. Toda . of course. thi. figur·e seem· mall. but at the time Lawson (K). Team Scores: 1 . Kansas 25; 2. Emporia State 41; 3. it markeJ a leap forward. At the trainer ' coun i1 hich , a select Kansas State 72. ing the Olympic team, Dyach ·ov declared that he had confidence in . ORTH CE TRAL CO FERE CE, Brookings, SD, ov. 2: me. At the la t competition before going to Rome I jumped 2 .17 (4. 0 miles, 20 to 30 mph wind) 1. Offerdahl OS) 21:20.7; 2. (7 · 1 ~ ") - a ne, European record. Rust (SDSC) 21: 27; 3. Pritchard (I) 21:41; 4. Kleinjan (SDSC) 21:46; nd here is another intcrc ting detail : I didn't manage the 5. Engel (I) 21:50. Team Scores: 1. South Dakota SC 40 ; 2. orth record immediately - m fir t t\ o attempt \ ere failure . I Dakota State 45; 3. Io, a 57 ; 4. South Dakota 10 ; 5. Augustana 134. en ed drnt I could do it. but omethi ng, I didn't know what, was BROW 23, PRIVIDE CE 41, FORDHAM 59, Van Cortlandt pre enting me. Par ·, Y, Nov . 2: (5.0 miles, cold and ra~g) 1. Farley (B) 26:06 ; 'Techni ally e erying ~eems to be correct. " Dyachkov com - 2. Brown (P) 26:12; 3. Boog (B) 26:21; 4. McGovern (F) 26:25; 5. mented, "but ou are too trained at the tart. Run in more freely. O'Donnell (B) 26:41. (Continued on page 59) (Continued on page 58) (Continued from page 57) ST A1 FORD 24, SOUTHER 11 C LlFOR. IA 34, Griffith Park, MICHIG ' FED ERA TIO . , Kalamazoo, Mich. , ov. 2: (3. 0 '-'ov . 9: (4. miles, very hilly, , arm and clear) 1. Marin {SC) miles, old CR 20:1 .0) 1. Sharkey (MS) 20:15 (ne w CR)· 2. Clark 25:5 ; 2. McCalla {S) 26:39; 3. Bes (SC) 26:51; 4. Kirkland {S) (W 1) 20:27; 3. Burston (\i M) 20:42; 4. Zemper (MS) 20:46; 5.