204:"- to reduce the daily commute, and the family's straitened circumstances were made evident, the Minson family bought the house next door and gave it to the Coes outright. They lived there for the rest of their lives. Coe had a younger brother, Peter, who died in infancy in 1928, and he took on his brother's first name as a dedication to him. He was brought up in just two rooms on Cambridge Heath Road. Although he won a scholarship to
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248:, and involved a substantial amount of long-distance running. By contrast, Coe took the view that "long slow training turned you into a long slow runner", and adopted a system of speed-endurance training involving fast repetitions with short recoveries, based on the ideas of the German coach
288:, in 2005, aged 75. Peter Coe died in 2008, aged 88. He and his son Sebastian remained close up until his death, speaking almost every day on the phone. Previously they had co-written two books on athletics coaching together.
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