“Many coaches, but by no means all,  have been competing athletes in their day but even fewer have been national champions or set national records.   Tom McNab has been national champion for triple jump five times and also set a national record for the event.   He has worked with many top class international athletes and his career has expanded far beyond the usual. ”    So starts the Tom McNab’s profile on this website which can be found at Tom McNab – Anent Scottish Running .   No mean athlete, and a top class coach but there is even more to Tom than that.   An athletics historian with academic knowledge backed up and illustrated with his own experience, a successful novelist using athletics as the basis for some excellent fiction and, combining his writing talent with his historical interests he has written some very interesting articles on the sport.   We are fortunate to be able to reproduce some of them here.   Read and enjoy then using the links below.

The Intercalated Games    Handicaps: A History   The Husplex    The Technical Evolution of the High Jump