if you could send a one word message back to your hs self what would it be?
I was a bad heelstriker so I'd say "barefoot." I was considering forefoot but I remember trying that in hs just by pointing my toes down which was stupid. training barefoot finally worked in college (yes now I wear shoes)
run more. My perception on what is a lot of running has changed. Don't be afraid to move other things around, so you have more time to run.
renewed marathoner wrote:
if you could send a one word message back to your hs self what would it be?
I was a bad heelstriker so I'd say "barefoot." I was considering forefoot but I remember trying that in hs just by pointing my toes down which was stupid. training barefoot finally worked in college (yes now I wear shoes)
This would be a better thread if it was one piece of advice instead of one word.
But my word would probably be "consistency". Hopefully my HS self would be able to figure out that the single word acually means: a) train year-round rather than 3 months out the year; b) real improvement comes over years, not weeks or months; c) with the real improvement in b, you actually can become a "talented" runner (i.e. talent isn't as big of a limiter as I believed in h.s.); d) avoid injury & burnout at all cost. Balls-to-the-wall training isn't effective if it mentally drains you or physically injures you and you need to take extended time off.
You won't be elite. Relax about that. Just train as hard as you can, race as hard as you can, and enjoy the time with your teammates.
I'd go back to high school and grab myself by the collar and scream "Cross-Country!"
Celibacy
EASY..... Every single run up to the week before state I went as hard as I could every run...smh
step-ups.
Whatever would be the best injury prevention exercises would have done more than any training techniques, because I literally got injured every week or two and the exercises would have prevented most of those.
After that:
tempos
long repeats
miles
Work on speed/explosiveness year round. Don't get caught up in mileage quality over quanity. Would have been a lot better off if I followed this in high school and college.
yaaa baby wrote:
Work on speed/explosiveness year round. Don't get caught up in mileage quality over quanity. Would have been a lot better off if I followed this in high school and college.
That's more than one word. Your busted!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
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Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these