An email from Ned Price in Boston telling us of the passing of Bill Squires (age 89) noted for his system of Stress With Interval Practice (SWIP). Coached at Boston State and Greater Boston Track Club. He got the job done with those guys in the Northeast. From Ned he sounds as if he was a bit of a character: He got the job done with guys like Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and Greg Meyer.
(Note the state of that track curb)
"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 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 one minute after the women.
Still he was great man. Ned
Here are some photos of a handout he distributed at a clinic in Centerville, OH in the early 1980s collected by George Brose
The handwritings are his edits. A bit of overlap on some of these photos.
