Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE (born 29 September 1956, and often nicknamed "Seb Coe") is a former athlete and politician from the United Kingdom. A middle distance runner, Coe won the 1500 m gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and set eight outdoor and three indoor world records. He is widely considered to be amongst the greatest middle distance runners of all time. Following his retirement from athletics, he served as a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1992-97, and became a life peer in 2000. He is the head of the London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and, after the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to London, became the chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was also elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations.Coe won four Olympic medals and set eight outdoor and three indoor world records in middle distance track events (and also participated in a world record relay). His rivalries with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram dominated middle-distance racing for much of the 1980s. Coe was born in West London, but was brought up in Sheffield attending Tapton and Abbeydale Grange schools. He joined athletics team Hallamshire Harriers at the age of 12, and quickly became a middle-distance specialist. He is probably better remembered as representing Loughborough University and later Haringey when not competing for his country. He was coached by his father, Peter Coe, who designed workouts specifically for his son. Coe studied economics and social history at Loughborough University and won his first major race in 1977—an 800-metre event at the European indoor championships in San Sebastian, Spain. It was at Loughborough University that he met athletics coach George Gandy who had developed "revolutionary" conditioning exercise to improve Coe's running. He first ran against Ovett in a schools cross country race in 1972. Neither won, nor did either win in their first major encounter in the European Championships Prague in 1978 in an 800 metre race, where Ovett (breaking Coe's UK record with a run of 1:44.09) was second and Coe finished third behind the East German Olaf Beyer. According to Pat Butcher (The Perfect Distance - Ovett&Coe: The Record-Breaking Rivalry, London: Weidenfeld& Nicolson, 2004), Coe's father and coach, Peter Coe, had encouraged him to run as fast as he could from the start. The early pace was indeed exceptionally fast: Coe ran 200 metres in 24.3 seconds, 400 metres in 49.32 seconds and 600 metres in 1:16.2. Then he clearly slowed down and finished third in 1:44.76. A few weeks later Coe was to reclaim the UK record, setting an all- comers mark of 1:43.97 at Crystal Palace, to rank him second in the World for that year. In October 1978, Coe displayed to the world for the first time his phenomenal natural endurance by winning a 4 Mile road race in Ireland in 17:54, defeating the likes of Eamonn Coghlan (1983 World 5000 m champion) and Mike McLeod (1984 Olympic 10000 m silver medalist), and breaking Brendan Foster's course record of 18:05. All this off a season which had been focussed on 800 m, with only one race over 1500 m or a mile. The writing should have been on the wall at this stage for the rest of the world's top milers the following summer. The next year, 1979, Coe set the athletics world alight with three world records in the space of just 41 days. On two occasions in Oslo, Norway, Coe set his first world records in the 800-metre (1:42.33) and mile (3:48.95) races. Later that year, he set the world 1500 metre record (3:32.03) in Zurich, Switzerland. He was to easily win the 800 m at the European Cup in Turin in August, unleashing a phenomenal last 200 m in 24.1. In addition he anchored the British 4 x 400 m relay team with the fastest split of the quartet, 45.5. He remained undefeated for the year at all distances, was voted "athlete of the year" by AW and T&FN, and was ranked number one in the world at both 800 m and 1500 m. Apart from Coe himself again, in 1981, no other athlete since has ranked number one at both these distances in the same year. In 1980, Coe broke Rick Wohlhuter's world record for 1,000-metres with a time of 2:13.40, and for exactly 1 hour (until Ovett broke his 1 Mile record), held all 4 of the classic "middle distance" world records simultaneously: the 800 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and 1 Mile. This feat has never been achieved before or since. The scene was set for one of the most famous confrontations ever, between Ovett and Coe in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where each won the other's speciality; Ovett the 800 metres, and Coe the 1500 metres (Coe came in second in the 800 after running what he described as "the worst tactical race of my life", while Ovett took third in the 1500). It was Ovett's first defeat at either one mile or 1500 metres in three years an

Welcome to Thor's Well. The still images captured from this location only do so much in actually capturing the reality of being there. I have heard unconfirmed rumors that grown men wear water wings when shooting this at a minus tide. This day I was there with Stephen Oachs and the tide was just over 3 feet. 4 feet and this area is underwater. I will be back at this location this weekend and the tide is perfect for both sunrise and sunset this weekend if any of you guys want to come on down and join us. The end of the video contains the money shot.....wait for it....wait for it....