Exceptional seniors: Peter and Miki Snell
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2011
- Peter and Miki Snell have been married for more than 30 years and still enjoy a healthy competitive spirit in activities such as orienteering, golf and bicycling. Peter is an Olympic gold medalist and world renowned researcher at UT Southwestern. From our November 2011 issue.
In 1974, I lived in Anderson Place apartments in Davis, California. Anderson Place, at the time the only low-income housing in the city, had a lot of international residents who were mostly students from all of the world who were attending either the medical school or the agricultural school at the University of Davis. I was 13 years old at the time, a 7th-grade student at Emerson Junior High and managed to stay employed part-time by babysitting. One day this new couple moved in downstairs. They had two young girls, Jackie and Mandy, who were about 6 and 8 at the time. I realized this was a great new source of babysitting income and got to know the parents, Sally and Peter.
I noticed that Peter had the most amazingly well developed calf muscles I had ever seen. He eventually told me had been a runner in the olympics and showed me one of his gold medals. I was impressed but even more so by his friendly, humble, approachable personality. I babysat for Mandy and Jackie often and one of them (I can't remember which) conned me into taking my first drink by offering me orange juice that I didn't know was spiked with whiskey. They thought that was just the funniest trick to play on the babysitter! Peter did me the honor of coming with me to my social studies class one day as a guest speaker. We rode our bikes together to Emerson and I got to show off my prestigious new neighbor and got extra credit in the class! I feel honored to have known the great Peter Snell.
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Just heard the pasting of one of the greatest in our history in athletics Olympic world record holder at the time still proud of been a kiwi we honor Sir Peter Snell.
How do they regard Rod Dixon?
Tom Dockery the 3 Rod Dixon John Walker Dick Quax all won Olympic or commonwealth games medals 1972 Olympic 1974 Commonwealth games 76 Olympics look up the history of the 3 runners.
Also greatly admired. A very successful middle distance runner with an Olympic 1500 bronze in '72, but somewhat in the shadow of the great John Walker after '74. It was really at the longer distances that he later established his legacy imo, especially with a tremendous win in the '83 New York Marathon.
@@MarkMcLT I met Rod past the finish line at Asbury Park,NJ 2 months before the marathon.I advised him not to run NY because his short distance career would be over.
It's a good thing that he didn't take my advice.
Maybe some one can tell me when Peter Snell ran at Santry Stadium, Dublin, Ireland ? I remember him running against some other well known runners, Derek Ibbotson was one, mainly from England, during the mid to late 1960's, but I can't remember the exact or even the approximate date. For some silly reason this is annoying me ! So far, I haven't been able to trace anything about that track race on the internet. Billy Morton invited him of course. But, it's been over fifty years since that time, so maybe I shouldn't be too hard on myself. I'm not sure if he won the race or not ? He was a great runner, and by all accounts a nice guy to hear him talk here. Any information appreciated !
You may be thinking of the great Australian milers Herb Elliott or John Landy who raced Ronnie Delaney at Santry. Ibbotson raced a few years before Snell's peak years of 1960 to 1964.
What happened to Sally???
I want to know why peter snell wanted to run
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A friend (Also a runner) talked him into training with him. Peter decided to try it, thinking it would help get him in better shape for other sports he was involved with.
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The unforgiving minute....living in the past...finished dead last to web loudat in 1988 millrose games...4:20 to 5:00...looks totally out of shape now...pigeons poop on bronze statues...Peter.
So, you're attaching significance to his performance at age 50? In a masters race indoors? Almost 25 years after his retirement? Did his last placing have anything to do with tweaking his hamstring on the first lap?
Peter Snell is a three time Olympic gold medalist and multiple world record holder. You? Well, what a strange person you are.
@@keithmoon8838 40 year old Williams just ran a 21:00 200 meter race...eased up at the end...Snell was my idol when I ran for University of New Mexico...like the aging singers...the footage from the past is priceless...Snell in the 1960 800 final...most dramatic finish in track history...hamstring pull in 1988...appreciate your loyalty to him but he is a classic case of "the unforgiving minute"...never could understand why he would smoke cigarettes and work for a cigarette company...like a former top FBI man becoming a Mafia hitman relatively!
@@johnrogan9420 Why are you so bitter?
@@johnrogan9420 he did not train or intend to compete as a masters, he was into walking not running as he said those long miles Lydiard put him through had ruined his speed. For you to continue to demean him and compare this to his elite career is shameful. He had a PhD in exercise physiology and worked at the human performance lab at Southwestern Medical School doing significant research on human performance.
@@lestermount3287 I totally agree with your forthright stance defending the great Peter Snell. His critic's comments are pathetic and pointless. Snell was 50 years old and not in racing shape when he ran in this indoor masters race as a guest. However, as an athletics coach and former Kiwi who knew Snell, Lydiard, Magee, Davies back in the day I have to make a valid point. To my knowledge, Snell never claimed endurance training 'ruined his speed'. Quite the contrary, he became so fit with the endurance, hills and fartlek he was able to sustain his speed for longer. His cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular development was huge, enabling him to run far more intensive speed endurance sessions with a faster recovery. Snell ran sessions like 20x 400m with 200m recovery off a stamina base, before sharpening to sessions like 6x400m off 5 minutes, or 3x400m in 49s at glycolytic rates. Within weeks he was running 3x 200m on a cinders track in 21.9...off 6 weeks of specific speed endurance work. Lydiard included a lot of variety, fartlek, surges and intensive speed sessions after the vital conditioning phases. I recall Snell winning a hand timed 10.6 for 100m in one of the New Zealand Superstars events at near 40 years of age, so his speed was evident years after he retired from endurance training.