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Interval Training. Doubell's coach, Austrian-born Franz Stampfl, understands completely. A Svengali-like figure who preaches mind over matter, he has helped such runners as Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway to world records. "Most Olympic athletes have equal physical capacity," says Stampfl, "but it is Doubell's mental attitude that enables him to produce an inspired performance...
...takes a little sweat, too. Stampfl espouses "interval training," alternating a lengthy series of full-blast sprints with periods of restful jogging. Using cardiographs and checks on pulse, respiration and blood pressure, he gradually expanded Doubell's training program to the limits of the athlete's physical capacity. After five years, Doubell now runs six miles every morning; in the evening, he runs three miles and follows that with a series which can consist of 50 sprints over 100 yds., or 30 over 220 yds., or simply five half miles. Beyond that, Stampfl says he teaches his runners...
Spiritual Uplift. Though he dismisses some of Stampfl's spiritualism as "crap," Doubell totally agrees with his taste in tipples. Both prefer champagne, though Doubell hastily adds: "I only drink champagne when it's available. I don't discriminate. I'll drink anything." Recalling one evening when he "got stoned" on champagne, he says that he went out the next morning "with a hideous hangover and ran the fastest 220 of my life in 22.2. Of course you can't do that all the time. Just about once a fortnight, I reckon...
...York, Woodmere Academy; Herbert S. Kassman, Ithaca, Ithaca High School; Robert W. Marshlow, Kenmore, New York, Kenmore Senior High School; James W. Murphy, Brooklyn, James Madison High School; William M. Shenck, Rome. New York, Rome Free Academy; Alan J. Simmons, New York City, Birch Wathen School; Robert J. Stampfl, Peekskill, New York, Peekskill Military Academy; Wallace A. Weeks, Brooklyn, Beverly High School, Beverly, Massachusetts; and Edward H. Winter, Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie High School...