My goal is to make it to the 2020 Olympic Trials in the Steeple and I will do everything I can to achieve this goal

I know high schoolers that work much harder than this guy. If your body can't handle the mileage required to meet your delusional goals then why wouldn't you spend another hour or two everyday cross training on top of the mileage you're running? You obviously aren't doing everything you can.

I’ve been following this thread for awhile. I’ll admit coebra used to irritate me like hell. Now he just makes me laugh and laugh. Sure there are lots of delusional runners around. The 2:50 marathoners who talk about meeting the Olympic trial standard , the 17:305k guys who talk about breaking 15 but coebra is on a leg of his own. Love the long runs being 6.34miles at 8:55 pace. Really love those repeat 354 sprints. But the 200 meter sprints on the treadmill raise the crazy bar. How the heck do you do that ? Crank the treadmill up to 15.2 mph and hang on for dear life for 29.5 seconds ? Lol. Must be popular at the gym.

I hate to pile on but have to echo the last few posters. You’ve ran 15 flat, so you obviously have a decent amount of talent, but if you’re trying to get faster you actually need to train hard. Have some self-awareness man. A guy like you would basically need a legit miracle to make the trials and you’re doing less training than even a mediocre runner like myself. Accept that you’re never going to be an elite runner (and that’s perfectly fine, it makes you just like 99.999% of us), start training hard, and see what you can do. But for the love of God please start living in the real world.

This might be the greatest troll thread of all time.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

I’ve been following this thread for awhile. I’ll admit coebra used to irritate me like hell. Now he just makes me laugh and laugh. Sure there are lots of delusional runners around. The 2:50 marathoners who talk about meeting the Olympic trial standard , the 17:305k guys who talk about breaking 15 but coebra is on a leg of his own. Love the long runs being 6.34miles at 8:55 pace. Really love those repeat 354 sprints. But the 200 meter sprints on the treadmill raise the crazy bar. How the heck do you do that ? Crank the treadmill up to 15.2 mph and hang on for dear life for 29.5 seconds ? Lol. Must be popular at the gym.

You've never run fast on a treadmill? Odd.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Hounddogharrier wrote:

I’ve been following this thread for awhile. I’ll admit coebra used to irritate me like hell. Now he just makes me laugh and laugh. Sure there are lots of delusional runners around. The 2:50 marathoners who talk about meeting the Olympic trial standard , the 17:305k guys who talk about breaking 15 but coebra is on a leg of his own. Love the long runs being 6.34miles at 8:55 pace. Really love those repeat 354 sprints. But the 200 meter sprints on the treadmill raise the crazy bar. How the heck do you do that ? Crank the treadmill up to 15.2 mph and hang on for dear life for 29.5 seconds ? Lol. Must be popular at the gym.

You've never run fast on a treadmill? Odd.

Yep, like every other runner with testes I do my 200s on a track, not flay away on a treadmill.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

You've never run fast on a treadmill? Odd.

Yep, like every other runner with testes I do my 200s on a track, not flay away on a treadmill.

You must not have experienced great lakes winters, then.

another runner wrote:

This might be the greatest troll thread of all time.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Yep, like every other runner with testes I do my 200s on a track, not flay away on a treadmill.

You must not have experienced great lakes winters, then.

I laugh . Try the Adirondacks. -15 is a heat wave. Treadmills are for hobbyjoggers.

Coebra wrote:

Update #61

All set to run a 3k on Saturday. Mildly nervous about it. just gonna feel the race out

As we discussed, throw in a couple 50 meter walking breaks. With some luck, you should break 11 mins tomorrow!!! I'm so proud of you.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

You must not have experienced great lakes winters, then.

I laugh . Try the Adirondacks. -15 is a heat wave. Treadmills are for hobbyjoggers.

Temperature has nothing to do with it.

You can’t run sub 30 200m reps in a foot of snow. Be realistic.

Coebra's coach wrote:

Coebra wrote:

Update #61

All set to run a 3k on Saturday. Mildly nervous about it. just gonna feel the race out

As we discussed, throw in a couple 50 meter walking breaks. With some luck, you should break 11 mins tomorrow!!! I'm so proud of you.

If the race gives finishers medals he should do just fine.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Hounddogharrier wrote:

I’ve been following this thread for awhile. I’ll admit coebra used to irritate me like hell. Now he just makes me laugh and laugh. Sure there are lots of delusional runners around. The 2:50 marathoners who talk about meeting the Olympic trial standard , the 17:305k guys who talk about breaking 15 but coebra is on a leg of his own. Love the long runs being 6.34miles at 8:55 pace. Really love those repeat 354 sprints. But the 200 meter sprints on the treadmill raise the crazy bar. How the heck do you do that ? Crank the treadmill up to 15.2 mph and hang on for dear life for 29.5 seconds ? Lol. Must be popular at the gym.

You've never run fast on a treadmill? Odd.

I do speed work on the treadmill all the time. Not because i couldn't go to the track but just for timd constraints. I have a treadmill at home. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to be able to work 60 hours a week and run 70 miles a week, while having a wifs and kids. Anyway, i feel like I get a great workout on the treadmill and i like the repeatability of it. If i do a workout today, i can do the EXACT same workout next week. No questioning whether I'm running too fast or too slow.

Race report, stat. How did your 3K go today????

The silence is deafening

you know he'd have updated this thread before his cooldown had it gone well

reed wrote:

you know he'd have updated this thread before his cooldown had it gone well

Maybe he realizes that his goal is not grounded in reality and his 3K time confirmed it. A sub 11min race is not bad for a hobby jogger.

Update #62

Jan-18 Rest

Rest Day Day Off – freshening up for race

Jan-19 Recovery Run

Time: 30 min

TTL mi: 3.76 mi.

Comments: good run. Just shaking out and reducing workload before a race

Jan-20 Race

Warm Up: 15 min easy

Cool Down: 15 min easy

Races: 3,000m & 400m leg of DMR 15min later

Splits: [36.6, 35.9, 35.3, 36.1, 36.4, 36.4, 35.9, 36.5, 37.1, 37, 38.7, 39.4, 39.4, 38.1, 30.38] [26, 29]

TTL mi: 8.16 mi.

Comments: Pleased with how this turned out. Did 3k and the 400m leg of a DMR. For 3k, just went to the back and ran as evenly as I could. Started to fall apart with 800 to go mentally and I guess it shows lol. Content with a 9:09 for right now – fair improvement.

Friend asked me if I wanted to do the DMR with a couple other unattached guys. It was right after the 3k, but figured I didn't have anything to lose, because they wanted me to do the 400 leg. The surprise was that I ran a 55.22, the fastest recorded 400 of my life by 3 seconds! Just went out and hammered as hard as I could- legs almost went with 75m to go. Really happy about that one!

Jan-18 Rest

Rest Day Day Off – right foot really sore from wearing spikes yesterday. Tried running on it but couldn’t go 100m without pain so took the day off

Jan-22 Recovery Run

Time: 30 min

TTL mi: 3.83 mi.

Comments: nice quick easy run. Foot much better than yesterday, didn't hurt to run on it. feel pretty good overall

Jan-23 Hills/Max Speed

Warm Up: 15 min easy

Cool Down: 30 min easy

Workout: 10 x 40m in 0 w/ 3:00 rest

Splits: [5.7375, 5.8275, 5.73, 5.94, 5.97, 6.0525, 5.9325, 5.8275, 5.835, 5.9775]

TTL mi: 5.85 mi.

Comments: snowed recently so did in parking lot after practice. Eh. Pretty typical

Jan-24 Progressive TR

Time: 45 min

TTL mi: 6.44 mi.

Comments: good workout. Transitioning to the faster LT pace. Legs a little dead, hip a little tight, but did well maintaining focus throughout

Jan-25 Special Endurance 2

Warm Up: 15 min easy

Cool Down: 15 min easy

Workout: 5 x 350m in 52 w/ 3:00 rest

Splits: [55.32, 51.5, 53.52, 54.19, 55.56]

TTL mi: 4.63 mi.

Comments: Late workout, dark for most. Track was clear so did them on there. Started off slow (didn't think anything of it) but halfway through the second, legs got really tired. third was a little worse, increased rest to 4:00, fourth felt awful for the last 100, increased rest to 6:00, and legs almost completely failed me in the final 100 of the 5th rep, so stopped short of the planned 6. Cooldown was so slow afterwards- didn't even break 10min pace until 1/3 of the way through it.

Jan-26 Rest

Rest Day Day Off. Felt really physically burned out and with some mildly worrisome pain in left shin after the workout yesterday so decided to take a day off.

Great week other than the Thursday workout debacle. Just taking it in stride, though.

Estimated vV02 mile pace has dropped by 10 seconds since last race, from 5:05 to 4:55. Things are moving in the right direction

Hey Coebra

Don't mind the haters. They are an inevitable side effect of dreaming big out loud. As I'm sure you are aware, it's a big ask to go from where you are right now to where you want to be and something that would concern me is a injury prone runner doing the steeple, it's not that you shouldn't but now is the time to work on your durability with good attention to strength and flexibility and even hurdle drills. These will help with your performance in the steeple down the road but will also help with the durability issues you have now. It's never too early to start practicing. A saying my coach used to have is to start training now for where you want to be in 4 years.

If your injured or managing niggles and can't get much running in, hit the pool for some aquajogging to get extra volume in too. Your priority now should be to increase your durability first as your body is only as strong as your weakest link. Use some supplemental training like aquajogging to keep your aerobic fitness up and work on your strength and flexibility to increase that durability.