My stupid teammate

Run your pace man, your pace might not be his pace; remember that. You do you honey. Don't hate on the grind.

Run with the slow guys for sure. Recovery is key and don't let anyone else dictate the pace. Some Kenyans shuffle 10 minute miles on easy days. Don't force anything.

wellasforme wrote:

My stupid teammate always pushes the easy pace and I want to have an easy day and recover from hard stuff, but he always gets are group to speed up and run with the top guys so either I have to slow down a ton to run with the slower kids, speed up a bunch, or run on my own...

What should I do?

2,4, 5 trees

he races the workouts and then does garbage in the race, so I tried to tell him that we were taking easy runs too hard, but he was like NO! We are taking them too easy.. He runs 5:45s for his tempos and can't break 17:40, wtf.. He pushes our easy pace under 7 and our group is around 17-17:40, him being the slowest..

just work as hard as him dont b*tch out

LSD long slow distance is for recovery. If you feel good at 7,8,9 or 10 min pace do it. If you don't recover and are always tearing down your muscles you will be like your teammate. You need to recover to improve. Rule of thumb run hard workouts hard and easy ones in your comfort zone for recovering. That is how you improve over time.

Run on your own like a man and let the workout king keep digging himself into a hole.

You should either speed up and run with the top guys, slow down a ton to run with the slower kids, or run on your own. If you're looking for some way to work this out, as long as your previous days' runs aren't having consistently negative effects on your current day's run (i.e., you're not needing to slow or shorten the run) you aren't running too fast.

does it hurt me to do easy runs slow, like i like to do them pretty slow

wellasforme wrote:

does it hurt me to do easy runs slow, like i like to do them pretty slow

No. It doesn't hurt you. It may not help you as much as going a bit faster would but any running will make you fitter. There are a lot of people who race very well on training that many would consider much too slow. Again, those people may race better if they trained faster but it's better to err on the "too slow" side than the "too fast" one. Lydiard once wrote that "You can never run too slowly, but you can run too fast."

If you aren't top seven and are just mimicking all of their runs at a slower pace, you will never be top seven. If the goal is to be top seven your teammate's strategy is better. If the goal is to have a jogging buddy, your strategy is better.

but he races like crap and was top 7 last yr but now is barely top 14