In a live conversation taped at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Malcolm and his Martian friend consult athletes Linda Flanagan and Lauren Fleshman on how to level the proverbial playing field. What would they ban from youth sports: Coaches? Parents? Uniforms? Whatever it takes to bring the love of the game to everyone.
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any second street. Why? In new york
as many of you know, I'm a pretty.
face runner and light
most competitive runners, I was most running crazy. When I was a kid started to thirteen.
ran through high school and a little in college
It was the single most fun thing I did growing up. Sports were
a refuge from the craziness about adolescence,
under the things it has become clear in recent years, is a youth sport.
are no longer the oasis. They used to be that some
very troubling- is happening,
air pressure, abusive coaches over involve parents and its work
for girls, eating too
borders distorted by
the images, so I asked to pay
to come and talk about all this with me and figure out. Some answers. Learn
russian and Linda flanagan, both athletes, coaches and parents, who thought a lot about this problem,
by the way who happened to have the same initials so just to be clear. This is linda
That's strangely, when many parents don't step in they raise hell when you know that child is putting right field but
there are slight
a lot of nastiness and a terrible team culture. There, quiet, Linda vermin, author of take back
game. How money and mania are ruining kid sports and why it matters- and here is lauren true,
you like my sport. Experience always felt like it was mine, learn flush.
workers, runner author of good, for a girl,
a woman running in a man's world.
Linda and Lauren gave me exactly what I wanted. I won't say we fixed kid sport,
but I do see a future with believing it ticklish for those of you who don't know laura
was one of the great distance runners.
Of her generation. She
is an entrepreneur and now she's she's, a writer now she's written this wonderful book, Linda also accomplishment
It has in a number of things interesting things in the course of your career, but of
heavens, to saving you coach for many years, the high school them.
And it's really,
those experiences that you came to write you will take that game and I
I am interested in the two of you for
reasons, but I am also not nearly as accomplished is either of you. I'm in fact, I thought
I thought that we could all go for a run this afternoon, and I asked so I asked first so I said: let's go for runs, and so then
says: well, I'm not running with Laurent she's world class. So
you flake and then I said alright I'll go running with born and then Lauren says no out and I'm not going right. I'm gonna go for a run early in the day and I think what happened
if I'm wrong or you looked at my strava, he said he's so slow. Why would I waste a good running day, so I ran alone, so I said he should have gone in the morning with me. So I'll get over that don't I
So both of you have written books about the christ
it's in your sports. We said girls, sports and, I think probably wishes
you can have talk, probably more about girls and boys in this disconnecting both of you would agree that
problems, are more acute with girls and
to set things up
wanted to. Let me I mean it
described the manner in which this conversation is going to take place as willing pay little game the marsh again
I game is
imagine, is a martian who doesn't know anything about american american culture sports
nothing just a martian in one of those balloons loaded and
he's been given. Is your two books richard
books, and he reaches a series of can no context. He is no inhibitions. He's not
about asking
So I am the martian
and I'm going to ask a series of questions are constrained by by
Any kind of
either ideological positions of mine. Previous experiences, I'm just drawing got my team
extreme conclusions from both of your book.
and I want you to respond to these conclusions.
The martians first statement is the martian says: ha
Should we ban
from ever coaching women. Again, it might not be a bad idea. Tell me why
There are too many men, coaching women. For one thing, women need
women and girls need
female role models in leadership positions? Everyone thinks of sports as
That's where you learn how to be a leader, and yet you know
very few girls are actually coached by women and even
the collegiate level it's about forty two percent.
a school level, it's in the twenties and you sports is twenty five percent, so
let's get more women in their so that young girls,
and teenagers concede that women can be leaders to war.
You have thoughts on the matter
this ban
Why I like these points, I agree and running only seventeen percent of the coaches and running her women, which I was really surprised, even lower than the average. I would say: let's, let's not banned them until we ve, given them,
a chance to fill the gap?
gap of knowledge that we are living with when it comes to female bodies and and how they,
develop and how they operate. Let's, let's let them
let's give him a chance to learn. Let's see how many of them want to and the ones that want to and are willing to and will do the work, let's let them stay,
Let's do all the stuff that Poland is talking about our enlightened. I was struck in reading a book lord by
Big chunk of your book is, it is a very powerful and
cycle, explanation of the difference in the physiological trajectory
is of young women, young man and you make this. You would talk to your time at Stanford. It
the young men are a ban.
But what I, whenever they are between of college
It is had their physical peak. They get better
automatically every year, their full of
all that every positive hormone.
Man,
where's? The women are going to a much more
complicated process and
the reason the marchioness. That question is the martian says
a ban
fully understand what a young woman is going through if he's never gone to himself,
well, I would say to the martian. We can't apply
at logic to the problems of the world, or else the problems would only be able to be solved by people.
We ve had an identical experience and the problems are
big enough, that we need everyone involved.
And I don't think there is anything that must steer
it's about the female body that
but he couldn't learn if they wanted to
it's just. We would leave yeah.
we ve been added for.
Years and years and years now and
just reading that your book in that little yeah section-
it's not incur. You know this
we have an overwhelming
A largely male group of coaches,
We still have we ever persistence in these kinds of problems, and I'm wondering whether, as the first step in solving the problem is to rip is too, is to replace
with people who maybe have a better chance of understanding, yeah
I'm in coaches. You have a high
likelihood that they ve gone through.
something similar
But you also have plenty of female coaches prepared
tweeting the same harm that their mail coaches passed down to them and repeat
the culture and so there's there's the knowledge is needed by female
Stu. I get a lot of messages of people over the book, women and men,
or like while I didn't know, I need the stuff. I feel really bad now have been coaching for ten years. Fifteen years I wish I could go back and have
different conversations with my athletes than I had
There was no under
standing on why the women were making the decisions they were making why they were breaking their body.
Breaking down higher rates that are male peers and
we don't study female bodies enough. We have enough research on fuel. That is, I carefully like blame coaches
not knowing these things possible sexual eyes, most of the things that are specifically female, you know, or we make them
pretty like the menstrual cycle. Has this reputation for being something you can't talk about without using euphemisms breasts or sexual eyes, just injured twelve and a half and get them
so makes it hard to talk about our bodies in
to talk about our bodies with grownups, especially linda what what
Did your ass? A? U kosher many many years. What did your ass
it's from you as a woman. Deadlock couldn't have
from a man or his act, or do you think it there was? No, I don't think that they go
something for me that they couldn't get from a man, in fact theirs
now here in the audience or coastal areas, who is fabulous, coach and role model for me,
who is very sensitive to the girls. You know.
feelings and
and wishes and dream. So I dont them
Think about it. I have to. I have to go back and tell the martian that we should not. We don't
to ban mail coach and should be educating them along with women coaches who, as law,
points out, are also guilty of a lot of the the nonsense that were reading about. I mean you look at the harvard ice hockey coach having every week there's another story about
some egregious behaviour on the part of up. You know as professional coach and their oftentimes women too.
what what what about this, though
The second thing that I took from reading both of your books was particularly from
orange. Was this. This notion decided they talked about bravely sure before about that. You spent a lot of the book that the trajectory of
a minimum, is different and that many women have this kind of in there. They teens only twenties have a kind of performance plot,
yeah, and so they observe the men getting better and better at sea every year? Many of them hit
period of couple years, whether times are not getting better in some cases are going backwards and tat triggers all kinds of disasters
is that how does how do you deal with that issue? Amiss it is, it is, is
A case to be made for is some somehow separating out the culture,
of male and female running enough that age. So there isn't, this kind of of
looking at the man and thinking they should be doing the same. I think that its findings,
different experiences. You just need the different experiences normalized from day one I couldn't
Coaches are having their conversations with parents and students. That's the time to lay out hey. We have a cross country team or track team or basketball team, and we
working with thirteen eighteen year olds, for example, and female body
We're going to be going through something that looks more like this, which is like, if you just look at all the data on performance, really doesn't matter what the sport is by
sixteen seventeen female gains. Performance gains on average are like one to one and a half percent, whereas their male counterparts are there, they go
their duty to do and the vienna either. It's got like like this, but we haven't been
telling them during that stage of life that hey this is temporary. This is like a really blip in Europe.
On term progression in your prime, is in your mind
play twenty isn't beyond so really we just need to every coach
an adolescent. Female person should should
telling them hey. This is gonna, be part of your normal progression. More than likely you're going have a plateau or even a short term dip. I will be cut
through that experience.
He may its you're gonna be navigating this with you.
made. Some of you will be on this part of the curve someday you'll be on this sum. You'll be on this, so part of team culture.
Needs to be supporting each other through that rocky road from day one
and not looking at it as a bad thing is just a different path like is there going to be feelings of disappointment, sure in and we can make
is for that without pathologies
and that's what we ve been doing this, because we don't recognize the females, have this performance wave instead of this point
women's line.
When they hit the plateau and there's parent
to have been like. I sent my kid to sport psychologist because I thought they just didn't
care enough anymore or sent them to a dietician, because I thought that they were
Nutrition was sloppy. Like that's just puberty, you just pathologist
puberty yeah, let's see the trouble, I I totally agree with you and yet I think that implies that,
coaches have room for. Have the time
The amateur athletes are patient and that their parents,
the patient and in the least in my experience with them peaceful parents. Of course many were wonderful. I loved them always have to say that he said
but there's this destroy
to achieve and then get results right away. You know, there's not enough there
plateau or getting worse than again
What's your problem here, and so it is about fortunate. It is in its also. There are some things we can't change. I mean sport. As we know it was built from male body, so high school sports. We invest a ton of money in high school sports in college sports and that's ages. Thirteen to twenty two, that's a great time to be a male in
right and that's why they're I'm guessing
though integrated into our education systems. It's like a
and why scholarships are given out based on whose the best seventeen or eighteen year old, that's a better predictor for
Male bodied person than a female body person of what your future potential is, but
the scholarships and that whole system was created long before female,
we're, like I've, been there asking for their share of the scholarship pie button
There is no getting around the fact that seventeen and eighteen year olds are the ones getting offered the scholarships or not, and so that adds this enormous pressure right during development right during pick, your purity experiences of change, where you like
hey you're, telling me to accept this temporary state of plateau
there's a lot on the line. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of scholarship and
opportunity and if I just
restrict my diet. If I fight puberty, if I you know
try to aim for this body that I've been
old is the ideal performance body now than I can give myself a chance to have those opportunities. But then you pay the price later
this brings us to the martian second point:
just one the lender, raises explicitly in her book which, when I reckon
that part of europe. I was like amen, I'm with you on this, as both has malcolm handed,
the martian, but there is a time to pull the plug on athletic scholarships and preferences. You know if you,
no you're describing this kind of the level of pressure that debt is
brought to bear on the seventeen year old girl,
at a time in her device
and when you can't make you know
in a prediction about where so,
this whole. We have this whole system in place
being driven by the enormous cost of culture
education by the expectations that come with scholarships. What have we just ended them? I'm offering
and, of course you know many of the kids going through it now will be like, but way that's a fair I'm. We know that is what we ve been counting on, but you know it would
if there were no admissions advantage and no athletic scholarship.
Of any kind available to college kids, then it would it,
completely change the way we provide sports two kids now, because it there wouldn't be this race, pardon the pond
to you, know yeah to achieve by thirteen, because we might all disappear and
also. You know I love sports and I'm a runner- and, I think their wonderful, but
it's not clear to me why a high school athlete should get
get advantage over someone
the oboe or whose and acquire like, why aren't there special
dispensations for them. They are entitled to special scholarships or admissions advantages or streamlining missions process. So
I think it's, it would be more fair. I think it would also be impossible decline.
back or at least very difficult. I really love that party. Your book, though, like I, because I have often thought neon if we could just given
the scholarships. It would really so much pressure on athletes.
chile girls, I think that the pressures which just go way down we be way more likely to allow development and change to happen on its timeline, but really
her book. I was like. Oh my gosh there's this whole other side of it the whole big business of youth sports. That is also driven entirely towards that same aim and as someone who has a nine year old and a five year old and I'd like them to participate in sports. I don't want to be a part of that mania I don't want to be having to,
travel for hours every weekend. To give my kid this that top top perform
the opportunity you. If I want the kind of sport
that you describe in your book
the ninety on site. I am for getting rid of athletic scholarships, but what had prevent
in the past was what would we replace it with.
Book you also provides a really great ideas of like that. There are other models and I think sometimes we, like lack imaginations, really helpful to see other ways. People are doing it.
I can remember the one that you describe him, he could talk about. My name went that would make no well, I certainly in in Europe. They don't do you sports, like we do it at all, so you know that
so school based sports, it's the after school, its community, they support, so that also sets up the whole
ouch level and then when I was running in england,
there isn't. There were no teens avis over. There were tears, but it was completely alien to the way we do it here and there was no coach. There was a student lad, re totally student, let it was probably comparable to interfere off here and it
very serious and organic and
I don't see why that's not a replica here
thinking and the college level and other possible.
suggestion I had which will never happen as well. How about if we just abolished college sports as
But but I say that, but why not call-
an interim you're on it's not saying it's cameo, one by one and abolish you talking about inter collegiate
boys like obesity. Double I snapped area. One what's ironic about this is in research for my book what women had in sports,
What club and inner mural before title nine, and but there
was a huge discrepancy. Obviously, there was no scholarships for us, but there were formed.
Within the unsuitable ay there was
media, but all these things that come with that infrastructure,
in sports. We wanted it to write when
maybe all along, we wanted quality, but maybe they should have followed our lead.
Maybe we round to something: well, one title: nine happened: there was a discussion for the first couple years about will
be fooled into the existing men's programmes, or will we run our own show here, like we ve guaranteed? We have that the scheme
we need to provide the opportunities that we don't necessarily have to run it exactly like the un's blaine. It took a little bit before the decision was made to
indian setup, and, unlike essentially with arguments my book, is that we should be
creating sports with female
he said the centre so that they can have any,
what chance to thrive in the sports system than that we continue to take it back and be
to do that because giving people the same thing the exact same way, isn't
get you the same result right. So how can we level the proverbial playing field in you, sports? That's after the break.
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We wanted to things it's along these lines, that of I've all of
often wondered about, is whether there is an inherent contradiction between designing
boys programmes for the for the fifty
percent idle and design them for the ninety. Ninety five percent are
and maybe those two things are in some sense incompatible
so, if we do away with high pressure or collegiate sports ends scholarships
things, maybe we produce fewer new, we don't that. Maybe this
we produce fewer world class. Voters, as he's running, as things
but maybe we also produce way more people who are
happy and contented and run their whole lives, and may we get fewer
to twenty five marathon errors and more to fifty marathons I mean I would be
happy with that
but you know their lot, there's some people in the kind of
leads boys community who consider that a tragedy wealth,
a few kids, not enough kids participate in sports now, and I think, if we can,
the model to try to get more power.
the patient, I mean there's just
article. A paper yesterday about the income gap between the
the pan, wealthy families earning over a hundred thousand dollars. Seventy percent of those kids play sports and
in families earning twenty five thousand dollars and less thirty, one percent play sports. So I think this
part of the same conversation that
there, the way we have developed the u sport system with its height,
asked and just
let me finish has pushed more more kids out so that
our fewer kids, you gaining
the advantages
Our country is one of the ones that I think has the least access problems. Yes
considering that they generally dont have cuts and- and you don't have to have been in the youth sports high performance pipeline to to join a team and off
new benefit, if you haven't, I mean I certainly like
When I started as a ninth grader running, there had been plenty of people in my town had been running a long time and you are not at a disadvantage. I was not at all at a disadvantage. If anything I felt like, I was at an advantage. That's how it was framed. Jimmy cause you refresh yeah, and you have plenty of years ahead. It's just like making like recognizing this timeline, but with my
interested in soccer thinking by
five hundred dollars for a spring soccer experience
for they can't listen, don't you know, leaving town
in one. So I don't really understand he's had one practice. These nine, like I don't understand how anyone can help people are affording this and continuing to do this. If I can just point out that in my town we have a junior pre academy for you force
which is three europe,
We was well it's a junior precarious, because there's also
the pre academy who, just for you fancy, so they like free k, yes, but
by the time the other said: qr picked out a prick hadda me than theirs academy in futures and then there's travel by their like they ve been playing for six years, their nine years old. You know, and each one it's here, five hundred dollars or more, which is in need of what the problem we were talking about with you with the money, and
You do that, though, the weight so
the biggest obstacle in new mention this linda, and I would like you to be more blunt about this, because you re too,
the biggest obstacle to the kind of
the escalation of youth sports, its parents, oh yeah, so-
and I'm remind you, know-
anyone who has to deal with parent. My brother was a elementary school principle.
Is now retired. So I can now say this spend
and he loved his job and love to kids just apparent summer.
And he knew no fifty
percent, I think of his anxiety and came from parents, not from kids scarecrows prepare for the kids. He was,
and he also had a missus Barry tangential
Had this hilarious riff about how the parent, the teachers at the parents think of that
teachers are always the worst teachers. Not only are they a pain in the ass, they don't know who the good teachers are very sort of
but I want to sell a martian says what
ban parents from Asia or you can we give them. One then go to one minute,
one event. That's it they want, then ok. Well, here's a good model is actually the way boarding school students his day. Parents don't go to those, because that end, those sports
risk from what I understand
do pretty well and the kids, it's pretty healthy between them with the coaches and the players, because the parents are
standing its chain link fence observing. But
in the absence of that, I think definitely restricting the parents is a good idea
yet I would like say I had a lot of wonderful parents.
but their hand for not great well. This
you were talking about in your book about how, as parents we get sucked into are like our achievement,
as parents is shown in our kids accomplishments in that that's a relatively new phenomenon,
internationally and my parents, my high school, could just retired after thirty years and at his retirement party. He again he tells me this. All the time is, like your parents were my favorite parents of all the parents in thirty years, because they showed up to like the first meeting. They came to three
five events perfect. They never once screamed. You know,
and they never told him how to do his job, think they show
If enough, like you say in your book to like get to know the person who's spending crazy amounts of time with your kid yeah, that's important, get to know them a little bit and then get out of the way
and truly like my sport. Experience always felt like it was mine and not agency that autonomy can occur.
you mean to the sport in a way that I think got me through the ups and downs a lot better and
they'd I dunno, looks out so grateful for my parental experience and then wanting to your
it was very affirming and like oh ok, they are actually doing a good job so well anyway, I shall try to do it. Like I turned out as a runner, I mean you're this year has to run our aid. Obviously you know they were doing something right by just stepping back my
I dare came to
you might our running curtain high school are one event.
Had this. He immediately volunteered to help with the launch of
they was raking. The pit and, as I was
I will say a modesty that I one this is a tear champions.
That day, as I'm roundly the final banned on my way to victory,
into the infield, and I see my dad he's
he raises the rake and he goes go malcolm suggests. That was the extent of his above, and I love that. But to your point, the thing about them not being involved is that it allows you to also frame your successes and failures. The way you want to frame them because the parental frame is very different, there are much more. There are far more sensitive. I think in some ways to setbacks too. They don't understand the context in which you're operating the the social network that you're that you're you're competing in what has really struck me in both, as
coach and since we have talked a lot appearances just how
anxious. They are it's all this anxiety about how their kids are going to turn out, which I get you know, that's what happens when you're a parent but and somehow it's It'S-
played out in sports, it's also play at school, but because sports are so visible, I think you know
you're your value as apparent is,
this is so easily measure by how well your child does and
I just I've been over overwhelmingly impressed by how
anxious. Parents are about, and that's why they're freaking out and you know
complaining and shrieking- and you know trying to get fired because you know you're not doing enough for your child again.
that child to the next level. Debt did.
Dealing with parents.
How much of an obstacle is that for people for coaches
Continuing to coach,
the enterprise coaching is that
constraining, are
apply will have an important step here to share
this is accurate too
the eight percent of coaches in to preserve aid about five years ago, and I'm sure it's gotten worse, said they thought about quitting because of parents to them.
So coaches sat in a more recent survey, said parents always criticising their child, their criticising officials. I mean
cultures are really down on parents right now and
this interesting. Interestingly enough in this aspen institute survey the
paris or, like we love our coaches. So there is kind of this weird disconnect there, but
Coaches are really down on parents, and- and this is
I am fair- and I think I
many parents are trying to do the right thing and our door
wanna be that parent I've heard that so many times. I don't wanna be that parent.
Yeah can you do mile repeats, but I would like to say, though, that there is a time when they should interject when they
be, you know, come not come
leaning but raising talk into the coach or talking death. Let athletic tractor and that's when there's some funny
What is going on- and you know
work, the kids, the higher the level of athlete the child is the more elite.
likely the r b emotionally abused and physically abused, and I think that
strangely, when many parents don't step in they raise hell when you know that child is put right field, but
if there are slight
a lot of nastiness and a terrible team culture there quite
as long as thirteen is doing well and
its intimidating. I imagine you know cause you're like dealing with an expert you would we tend to assume that they, there
a method that vetted, but they wouldn't have got
where they are born if their successful,
particular vs. Meanwhile, that there's a lot of tolerance of terrible things we shouldn't be tolerating just because the coach has a great reputation, yeah,
It's true you talk.
quite movingly.
And honestly about your own father new book, some of the best parts of the book,
At the beginning of the book, I thought I thought
your father, your father came across his are much less sympathetic figure than he does by the end.
I'm wondering how do you how'd? You judge, you're the elite runner here
How do you judge your own parents? Do you think,
your father's,
role in your life.
she was a runner was neutral or her. She was
think that overall he was really positive force here
is an alcoholic for people over the book and he worked really long hours as a prompt maker.
When he got home. There is about and ninety minute window where I could catch him sober
or he would have too many drinks. Where I didn't know what kind of doubt I was gonna get
and so I developed this habit.
china to really get his attention through excellence during those ninety minutes, because he really loved excellence, excellence and everything music, so
words, you know culture like he just it
what to see people like at their peak doing
Think incredible, so I wanted to have his light on me in that way. From that perspective, I want can even really blame him for that. That's just one of those childhood things were a dynamic emerges.
Alcoholism, was
ideal deftly would have preferred that not to be there by, but then
gosh throughout my career, he he was so
nature had, was a constant positive, like
I always knew I'd be loved, no matter what the result was when I came home
so, even though I like desperately wanted to please him and be excellent for him. He never was like here
came down on me when I failed. So from that perspective I just I would like to be that kind of parent, for my kids
where the marchioness another question. The estimation this is the more this is the martians most trivial, frivolous scripts
suggestion, although maybe not
the martian, says
wonders. Why, given all of
all issues that are flicks girls and sports
why female runners, whereby hookers and crop tops hmm
very easy question to answer for the martian. That's because our culture feels that
female bodies. Are there to be viewed objective
I'd commented on- and
in order to do that they need to be weighing less fabric and tighter fitting fabric.
And that is how female
scott, their start post title nine was a movement to make really. This is true to make up for the fact that peace,
We need to be why watching inferior performances,
and so they
to be a visual spectacle and that's what
the uniform differences came from and gender.
The clothing in sport, which, of course
women will say they wanted. They didn't want to be wearing like
this extra large hoodie, necessarily all the time they wanted things that fit and performed, but it took
says static angle. That is so that's why,
I was looking. I read your book and then was,
pictures of ethical,
I think I see some cross country gmo forgotten which will cause country team.
Now, as was were in fact it here
you were five young women,
all of whom had six pacts
all of whom had not a stitch of fat on them.
all of whom lots of shiny unhealthy and like cheese,
stature high bar for somebody who is not an elite division. One
for someone here if I was eleven twelve year old girl thinking about how or high school-
that and I and I go online- they see that picture. That's what I'm can we at least
just wear a t, shirt and a pair of shorts and just make them just that little bit easier on that eleven year old. Who wants to join it yeah? Well, the thing is that
probably me at will
I dont, think I expect is necessary for high performance at all, and there is a fixation with looking the part more than being the part and the uniform
it's that dynamic mean that played a huge part in my life throughout my whole career was like ok,
markets are good, but like what do I look like in my uniform, I dont look race ready, so I'm not race ready or the scale. Doesn't sam race ready, sir
grace ready was like those are not the most important
dictators not even close and like we have
These concepts of race weight,
are created and perpetuated by men, primarily who have way less monthly fluctuation.
hormonally end, they are being up
I had two female athletes as if we can somehow have magic number on a scale that if we
can stay. This number we will perform optimally based on physics formulas, but
It's not our bodies work and then it creates this very narrow band that you have to try to exist in and achieve in order to
be viewed as elite.
and I mean I watched. It happened on my teams, where women who didn't look like that were
shamed made too
you'll like they were committed enough just because they didn't have the six pack
really matter how fast they were running. That's going to college to get
in our town, the high school girls wear those uniforms yeah, I just think that's terrible. I just think
there's not a performance advantage.
Now or that are the men and boys would do it later.
let's just that the school at the school you coach dad-
You are coaching gross cross country. Did they were now there's no way, I would have let them
Oh you put your foot.
One of my favorite images of
does london when she want.
passed a marathon rainbows bag is short say from its just. The whole thing is silken tactic and bad ass and, like I just for those is its much. It's almost is much more powerful emotionally here to watch her because she's not pretending to be wearing that you,
form she just being her. Yet
This is where, in the thing she wants to wear, it wasn't sheltering base their parachute of a running ahead. I think I feel it is you re going to see one leg. You have the time whose view don't does then that is a very
a very, very good american marathon,
The year there was a year that the Boston marathon took place in a gale
and the only way any what you could win. Emily was so nuts that
the only way you can win as if you were the single tough,
most bad ass desmond adjusts healed through. I can I likely tat the last.
Three miles and a document to be as they would you not only emotionally work. She broken incredibly long. Drought in the oven,
Finally, I can winner win, win yeah, yeah and in her books coming out like a week. I think the troika should we should return again, yeah, definitely sugar running with me. Unless
then he returned. We don't find me running partner, but we do settled on a grand solution to fix you sports once and for all.
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Oh, the martian wonders so here's the
they may not the martian on this one. You know I've
And competitively in high school and stopped for thirty five years and start again,
and I stopped because
although I was very successful runner the pressure. I was thirteen and fourteen and fifteen and I
found the pressure of racing, it grew unbearable and I just couldn't do anymore and I've often- and I I love
track of how much joy I founded running and got
soon by
the only measure of me as our motto, was whether I could win a race and that like- and I I I lost out on thirty five years of pleasure, as resulted
to them. I know I'm wondering: should we
He should we, if we're since we're banning stuff. What stuff should we be? Should we be banning cut of serious competition until I dunno fifteen or sixteen or something should we push out,
is there any reason why thirteen year old should be competing at a national level? Now, in my view, what you know, I was at the moors games about six weeks ago and notice that they had a race for the fast
this eight year old in the world and they
these you know these
any children they eat or from different countries under where they came from, but they all ran like the same time like ridiculously fast, and this is one
You know we're time up before you mentioned various models for doing things. We
need to do the national championships at age. Thirteen and twelve, like inner. I been in
lot of sports around this country. There are these ridiculous championships like
all children and-
there's just there's. No reason for that and.
The country that doesn't do this is norway and they have incredibly robust participation and then like
great success with their athletes. After so I would tell the martian. That's what's forget the championships, you know what I said before
teen say I did this. I did this recently and I can't remember what it was. Fifteen years a sixty year old someone made a list of the top english.
sixteen year old mail,
minors.
runners over the last thirty years somewhat years and the quest
raised was how many of them went on to be world class. Addled matters
in the end was such a small number that it was like.
wait what so, if we do
sports at that age, because we're trying to identify people who will be talented as addled athletes, it's just
but the worst predictor. Imagine it's not working nationals have, whereas thinking in this story, like the reason why we have the national championships us for the adults exactly,
for the sponsors and the people out to make money?
hosting it and yet in getting the tv rights not stuff, it's like shit,
May the eight year old he's like you now I want to
the best eight year olds in the world model? Can you look that this right?
scores some questions for Linda.
How do you as a coach, solve the problem that your mom
likely to favour.
gifted ones than the not so gifted once you ve got a problem. Well,
I don't know exactly what you think you have to be aware of the fact that you may have favorites in.
I will say more about favouritism could sometimes the best one is not your favorite,
so I think it's just
awareness on the part of the coach to recognise that it's not building the team to to
focused solely on the best girls you miss. Hardly,
learn. If I was your high school coach, I would be famous right
I don't know. Do you know my high school coat motors lose it. There is a natural that this kind of
The success of the
late invariably reflects back on. The gas in ways is not always so answer right. There
What was the story? Didn't make the book by understood
little bit upset about it now, just kidding that my eyes, my coach, he
by the time my senior year came round, he was getting really swept up in
accolades and how reflected on him and
There was some indoor meet that I really we'd never
the stone from southern california like indoor track is not really a thing, but there is the
one place that you can do it with a wooden track, and so we would go and sort of having a relay. Every year there is like no you're gonna run the invitation mile and the to mile. These used to be prestigious raises. Twenty. Five years ago I water
I want to coach someone who wins these races and
Oh you, retraining over christmas break for the first time ever like doing these hard work out in a time of year, when normally ridge going on fun runs. I was not enjoying myself. I was feeling tired from the cross country season and when we got there, I
the first race did terribly- and I was like
I don't want to do the second race and he's like no, you need to do. The second raises is a big opportunity. Pushing me to do
and I was like coach, I'm not your racehorse in.
He loves telling that story to people will start burst out laughing as it can. You believe that
can you believe she said that to me and then, but then he apologized in the car later he was like it was. He actually said he's like I was getting swept up. I was making out me. I wanted that
and you never wanted to- and I just wasn't listening to you when you are trying to tell me so it's real
the a pressure man, that's a rare coach
So we had a whole series of things we wanted to ban areas. Can we
so- we wanted to ban by hunters and craft ups,
a ban on there?
Men are on there. They parents, parents were banning competition before
Fifteen fifty, I think, is reasonable. Naturally, you really translations are ok, just not try. My running crew was over effectively fifteen different areas. Now I've, nothing! You ve made of mileage a gardener over the years over my running, exploits at the age of fourteen is: can
terrible now an enemy sounds article on the chimps anti war,
favorite ban of all the bans.
if you're going to one of those big event- parent the championships, the bun hookers and o n the college scholarships, I know my favourable.
College scholarships is my favorite ban, mind who I think it would downstream solve a lot of the other problems. They could basically neutralize parents, most of them
yeah. That expression is so fantastic neutralize three parents at one stage talking about the virtues of neutralizing people in our position, yeah and then there'd be less motivation to host the eight year old world championships, yeah yeah yeah. Well, here's a good question.
Does it change of women's girls' sports need to start at the grassroots level, or will it have or we talking something has to happen top down
there be a can. We have a revolution that can change this or or do we not
is someone that you you talk about a kind of
you want to czar
one of the shell of alma ata kind of separate yeah yeah. That would be nice and she's. So many people have so many ease our jobs. For her shall note lobbyists on every problem america's has with england, limb, shell,
I think it has to be both. I know that's a bit of a cop out, but ok, let's start with the top, though, if we'd
and the scholarships that is going to have this trickle down effect.
Permeate all the way down that
The larger issues with you sports, more than you know the one this specific to girl problems, but I think it would transform-
the whole game and then a similar high level thing, I think, would be mandatory coaching edge.
Patient for anyone working with female bodied athletes, I think, there's. I can think of a single reason why we wouldn't do that, but the giant gap in knowledge. We have
one question fire books, because not only to grass roots thing that, like our own me to a moment whereby you see I'm not stand in for it, we need,
on the grassroots thing, the thing in both
if you would have way more knowledge about this and make it
I being overly optimistic if I say that the
this change is going to happen when the girls themselves stand up, and you say this is nuts. It's like.
If you, the coach of that team and you observe that there are some issues
superior, and no one's really talking about. Why someone's on her third or fourth unexplainable stress fracture, someone's polemic, someone,
and then the person who wins the race from the other team is so scarily thin that you're worried about her yeah. Well, where you can normalize anything, it's just going to say in a culture right and so yeah. I think, but I don't think that it's fair to put it on the girl
I think that I really think parents
we know parents don't have enough to do if they want to get involved. This is how you should get involved, which is like yeah, don't stand for it. You talk about that bus.
Begin. Not being afraid to be the parent that says, you know I'm not going to do the extra yes thing, I'm not yeah! Well, I think you know it's it's
in my book, as trying to kind of both understand where parents are coming from
and also be. You know, offer a critique, and I think that
it, is important that parents recognised they have agency that they don't have to go along with everything that you know that extra
and conditioning training- or you know
wait work out. That's might be helpful. The supplemental training, like the soccer
in my town and offers six year olds that they can say. No to that.
It's ok to say no to their from
just the other day. When I drop my kid off at the five hundred dollar spring soccer, experience have at present
it's a little bitter, very annoying. Wait till you hear this part. I was like see a dude and then one of the parents that I know is a parent of another kid in the class and she's like you're, not staying like god. So
tat. You re actually giving each other pressure yearly. Words thing at a practice.
yeah. I wasn't going to stay and watch the practice to have to look forward to we were. Someone is waving frantically meat at me from off stage, but I look so we've got to end soon, but I wanted to do.
Further runners out there. I wanted to get to toss them a bone in someone asked,
russian. If you learned since you that you're you're running stood so rare that we get to hang up like me,
but I'm so bitter about not going to go running with you
because you
I'll. Tell you why it was it's not too late. What're, you doing in my recent differences
Those of us who are just kind of everyday runners we're
we run with people who are your level, you guys float.
and we're running, and you look over and you're just couldn't she
Then it like magic like watching a magician, do a trick right. You like, oh, my god, you're, not even
at breathing that you don't touch the ground and you're like how is happening that sounded like a year and intellectually curious person? Most people are like I'd like I'm like. Do you want to run with me, they're like? Oh? No, no. I would never do that, like I promise I'll run the pc, you want to run and they're just like adult athletes. This is really for the two of you and then we really do have to stop. What did you guys like
the most about marathon training until he started nimble that life
a thousand years ago that I ran to forty nine. If I had one to forty nine, I would have a t shirt with hitherto horn here that began in a super issues that we, like the two thirty right now you're right.
You know, I had a great group to train with, and the training is the fun part. Not always
that's the camaraderie that I got in marathon training and you
there a long time so
for those are the training runs, were kind of fun to do to me. You know when they weren't miserable.
I didn't have a group, but I did get to have my
I saw coach mark roland at oregon track club elite. I had always had him in a group setting, and I was the only one doing a marathon and that's normally the time he did new york when track and field athletes are taking. It.
And so I had him to myself and you would rise bike alongside me and we got
Have all these really nice chats and like I just loved
was the last year we worked together so to have that I have a lot of fun. Memories from that,
yeah. I think that's a lovely way too, and because
It's a reminder. We ve been talking about what's wrong with running
and the thing that I was trying to help young people when I try to get them to become runners, is
this thing the camaraderie stuff, is something it is just magical like.
Going on a long road with a group of people who you are friends
close to any worked out with before those of there's something there. This you'll never find anywhere else issues to the end, and I think that that love like that's what true,
our books. Think when you know that you have something worth fighting for protecting.
We really just want to remove a lot of the garbage. That's getting in the way of that right,
Thank you so much to the two of you
Thank you to all of you and go get your kobayashi
get himself
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