I hate how my teammates go slow and don't do complete mileage on easy days

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Just go your pace.

Similar situation on my team, luckily for me the guys that call me out are seniors and will be gone next season. Sometimes you just gotta do you and take some crap from teammates.

Breaking news: Sometimes people like to go slow on easy days

grGGGR wrote:

*I can already tell theres going to be someone who says "quit being a little b**** about it!"*

Pushing the pace on easy days is silly. Do your hard days hard. Do your easy days easy. Easy runs aren't the runs that are improving your fitness.

quit being a little b**** about it

That's Great!

Are you your team's fastest runner on race day? If so, push the pace to where you want to go. If not, take advice of people faster than you and learn to be humble.

You're a good boy.

"...don't do the full mileage"??? Does this mean they run less than they should do? Less than the coach tells them to?

Points up the problem of group runs; the pace is not going to be right for more than one or two people - if that. Better to run your easy days alone and use the others to pull you through the tough bits on the hard days.

I'm amazed at how many posters appear to be in running situations where they aren't happy. Hell, we do this for fun, or perhaps more accurately satisfaction, and if you aren't experiencing this find yourself another running environment where you will get the fun/satisfaction.

1. You absolutely can train outside of practice.

2. You should be running for time, not mileage. That's the easiest way to make sure easy days get completed correctly.

grGGGR wrote:

...I can't train outside of practice...

I'd be curious to hear why not?

I ran in high school in the 1990s, at the height of the low mileage craze. My coach was convinced anything over 15 miles a week would cause our bodies to break in half. (Never mind that same coach, during football practice, would scream, neck veins bulging, for the players to push harder, dig deeper, ect. Distance runners, though, were just too fragile to work hard...)

I did the majority of my mileage at home on my own. Why can't you?

LittleGuys wrote:

Are you your team's fastest runner on race day? If so, push the pace to where you want to go. If not, take advice of people faster than you and learn to be humble.

This is really important. In HS, we had a kid who would always push the pace on easy days, then run 20+ minute 5ks. Easy days are easy for a reason. Everyone hated this kid because he didn't socialize with the team, tried to change what worked to suite him, and generally wasn't friendly. Don't be this kid.

Truthful wrote:

LittleGuys wrote:

Are you your team's fastest runner on race day? If so, push the pace to where you want to go. If not, take advice of people faster than you and learn to be humble.

This is really important. In HS, we had a kid who would always push the pace on easy days, then run 20+ minute 5ks. Easy days are easy for a reason. Everyone hated this kid because he didn't socialize with the team, tried to change what worked to suite him, and generally wasn't friendly. Don't be this kid.

This happens a lot - the slow kid on the team trying to lead easy days. The reason - it's the only thing they can "win". It's their chance to feel like a star. They don't realize it makes everyone resent the.

When kids on my team tried to push the pace on easy runs, our coach would say "when you run sub 15, I'll give you your own recovery run pace and you can do your easy days faster than everyone else. Until then, no one here is so good that they need to run faster than everyone else on an easy day."

This always made sense to me. You have to be way faster than your teammates to require a substantially faster easy run pace. OP, if you're running 14:50 and your teammates are a bunch of 18 minute guys, go talk to the coach and get your own recovery run pace. But if you aren't head and shoulders better than everyone else on your team, there is no conceivable reason that you need to run faster on easy days.

Do your own thing and don't worry about what everyone else says..... With that said, I hope you don't come back in a month or two and complain about being burnt out or injured. If so, please revert back to this thread for your answer.

What is your definition of slow though? Are they going like 8:00 pace or are they basically walking?

OP, do you run on Sunday?

How many of you have organized practices on Sunday?

Are you in HS or college?

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