Triathlon WITH Jack Daniels

The first time I heard about Jack Daniels I thought about whisky; but Jack Daniels is more important than whisky.  He is a scientist and coach who used to coach swimming and ended up teaching running when he says: “I was not good at running, but I won a silver and bronze medal at pentathlon in the Olympics game.”

Daniels won a team silver medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics and a team bronze medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics for his participation in the modern pentathlon.^[3]

Jack Tupper Daniels (born April 26, 1933) is a professor of physical education at A.T. Still University and a coach of Olympic athletes. On March 21, 2013, he was named the Head Coach of the Wells College men's and women's cross country programs.^[1] He received his doctoral degree in exercise physiology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Named "The World's Best Coach" by Runner's World magazine,^[2] he led SUNY Cortland runners to eight NCAA Division III National Championships, 31 individual national titles, and more than 130 All-America awards.^[2]

I want to thank to the ones that place Daniels videos in Youtube.  This is what we should do if we want humans to continue evolving in whatever we do.  Daniels is a wealth of information about training and the evolution of training.

I want to make a point of running economy which Daniels puts next to VO2max.  Running economy has to do with technique and cadence.  We had had a female triathlete able to run 17 minutes flat for 5k during a triathlon when the VO2max was 60; the same athlete unable to run below 18:30 when running a sprint triathlon, same weight, different training and a VO2max of 67!  Her running economy decreased by changing the cadence and the technique for worse, even though her VO2max improved.

Salut, Jack! Salud, Jack! Cheers, Jack!  Thanks for showing us the way.