“Coaching can easily become . . . a technocratic procedure invested less with a coach’s understanding of all that training does, and more with his or her power to control, monitor, intervene, regulate, differentiate and correct his or her athletes. Yet, paradoxically, there is nothing structured and certain about a race. What happens over the course of a distance running race is open to constant change; athletes have to make untold decisions that relate to their many bodily states.” Denison and Mills continued, “What concerns us, therefore, is how effective a training plan can ever be if the
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