Though there's a tinge of gray in his mustache now, Harvey Glance hasn't lost that sleek sprinter's body.
"I can still run," he said with a grin.As recently as last year, Glance claims, he was able to run the 100 meters in 10.38 seconds.
That's not far off his times when he was one of the world's fastest men - one of only a handful to cover that distance in less than 10 seconds and a gold medalist at the 1976 Olympics.
These days, the 35-year-old Glance is still a trailblazer - the first black head coach at Auburn University, his alma mater and the place where he burst on the national scene in the mid-1970s.
"It's definitely been an adjustment to go from athlete to coach," said Glance, who got the job last year after longtime coach Mel Rosen stepped down to head the Olympic track team.
"When you inherit athletes from someone else, it takes time to get to know them," he said. "And then there's the respect element . . . these kids had to adjust to looking at me as their coach and not their buddy Harvey."
Sixteen years ago at Montreal, Glance reached his greatest heights as a competitor - winning a gold as part of the 400-meter relay team - but also suffered one of his biggest disappointments.
Favored to win the 100 meters at age 19, he came in fourth behind three other sprinters he had beaten regularly during the year.
"I was setting world records fresh out of high school . . . basically going undefeated," Glance recalled.
During the Olympics, Glance figures his inexperience caught up with him - not the competition.
"I was faster than those guys and I beat them again after the Games. But they beat me when it counted."
Four years later, Glance said he was primed to win the gold that eluded him in Montreal, but politics got in the way when the United States boycotted the Moscow Games.
That's still Glance's biggest disappointment in sports.
"I got faster as I got older, but from a mental and physical viewpoint, I was never more ready than I was in 1980," he said.
Unlike other athletes, though, Glance got some measure of redemption. He returned to Moscow in 1986 for the Goodwill Games and made it to the top of the victory stand as a part of the winning 400-meter relay team.
"That was my gold I was supposed to get in 1980," he said.