Dr. E.C. Fulcher, Jr.

Here’s a question from Truthsearchre that I would love to go over in more detail at another time. For now, though, let me give you the most honest answer I can give.

Question: I see you have won a state championship in high school in the 220. Very impressive! How did you train to do that? That was 1968. In 1992 I started training college athletes. We used ice, heat, supplements, drills, workout routines, and all kinds of science! I think those things help, but being a triathlete and thus a runner myself, I don’t think they make a runner or an athlete in any endeavor. Can you tell us what made it possible to become a state champion?

Answer: Honestly, it was plain raw speed. I always had trouble getting out of the starting blocks, was always last, but I did have the raw speed to depend on to catch up and pass. The coaches I had were not beneficial to me in the training aspect, they were Volleyball coaches, and weren’t trained in track, so it left me with no actual track training. If I had better training I probably could have shaved an additional second off my time. But for me, I just had to rely on sheer will and natural speed.