Loneliness of the Long Distant Running Coach
The bond between and an athlete and their coach often stretches beyond the track. A coach needs to understand more than just an athlete's physical limits, whilst the athlete has to have complete faith in the methods of the coach in order to build success. That relationship is at the heart of what helped some 900 people coached by John Honerkamp to complete the New York marathon. What makes his coaching all the more remarkable is Honerkamp never actually meets any of the people he trains - like Adele Rushneck-Feeney, but first John explained to the 91热爆's Caroline Barker how it worked...
PHOTO: Runners cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the start of the New York City Marathon (CREDIT: Alex Goodlett/Getty Images)
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