An email came yesterday from Ned Price in Boston telling us of the passing of Bill Squires (age 89) Bill was noted for his system of Stress With Interval Practice (SWIP). He coached at Boston State and Greater Boston Track Club. He got the job done with those guys in the Northeast winters. From Ned he sounds as if he was a bit of a character: In his stable were Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and Greg Meyer. What more does a coach need on his tombstone?
(Note the state of that track curb)
Ned's note:
"Bill Squires died today. He was 89. I was on 2 BAA Masters teams with
him in the late 1970's. He was a bit of a nut but a great guy. He referred
to any one who could not break 4:15 for a mile as a jogger and once showed up an
hour late for a x-country meet he organized and thus kept 500 runners
waiting.
I was a bit annoyed since Women and Men were to run 30 minutes apart and
all but one of my men runners missed the race because they had gone to the one
mile point when he started the men only one minute after the women.
Still he was great man. Ned
Here are some photos of a handout Bill Squires distributed at a clinic in Centerville, OH in the late 1970s collected by George Brose To you running newbies, don't look for anything called 'Tempo Runs', the term didn't exist in those days. No Strava either. You learned your routes and measured them in your father's car if he let you use it on the weekend.
The handwritings are Bill's edits. A bit of overlap on some of these photos.
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