I don't feel my coach is that helpful and me knowing very little and wanting to maximize my potentially is looking for a coach to help me throughout high school...Anybody?
I don't feel my coach is that helpful and me knowing very little and wanting to maximize my potentially is looking for a coach to help me throughout high school...Anybody?
Do add to it I willing to do whatever it take to be great. I just don't want to keep having to "spam" this site with threads to get answers, it feels like I'm being really annoying when I just want to learn more and I don't have the coach to do so.
You would have a much higher level of success by maturely approaching your coach and talking about his philosophies and what concessions he is willing to make towards your training. It would be difficult to be coached by an outside party and still fit your training in with your team with your teams goals in mind.
If your coach truly knows nothing about running, and is unwilling to let you modify his program, you should quit your team and find a local club team, or train by yourself and race on your own. There are dozens of running books (The Self Coached Runner II was a favorite of my father) and there are some decent training advice ideas buried under the non-sense of 90% of posts.
Best of luck, hope you and your coach can work something out.
SCIENCE! wrote:
You would have a much higher level of success by maturely approaching your coach and talking about his philosophies and what concessions he is willing to make towards your training. It would be difficult to be coached by an outside party and still fit your training in with your team with your teams goals in mind.
If your coach truly knows nothing about running, and is unwilling to let you modify his program, you should quit your team and find a local club team, or train by yourself and race on your own. There are dozens of running books (The Self Coached Runner II was a favorite of my father) and there are some decent training advice ideas buried under the non-sense of 90% of posts.
Best of luck, hope you and your coach can work something out.
Solid advice
It's not that I'm against his training philosophy it's he doesn't seem to have answers or know the most about increasing mileage and plateauing ect... He has the basic knowledge and wouldn't go against any plan I really did he just doesn't give specific answers... Hope that makes sense.
If it's more of a "bounce questions around" kind of advice you are looking for, like answers to why or why not about certain training questions, the kind gentleman above is probably a fine resource (DIII, represent), and I'm be happy to talk about running too, should you want my contact info.
what makes you think said coach is a male?
Email me jmjbmx@gmail.com. I'll make you faster than Mo.
A lifetime of socially ingrained gender bias.