Have you ever had a post-graduate high school runner come back to you and tell you that the race strategy advice you gave him when he was a senior was wrong?
Have you ever had a post-graduate high school runner come back to you and tell you that the race strategy advice you gave him when he was a senior was wrong?
Yes it has happened to me. Hey, you need to quit being so sensitive! As a coach you need to be a leader which means not being worried about what other people think. If you can't do this then it's time to find something else to do because you will not be successful!
HS Coach X 2 wrote:
Have you ever had a post-graduate high school runner come back to you and tell you that the race strategy advice you gave him when he was a senior was wrong?
Yes, I had a kid come up to me recently and tell me of his experiences since high school. He said that starting out fast did not work for him. He needed to start more conservatively. He ran about 17:05 in the 5K cross country for me and now runs around 16:00 minutes as a 30 something.
When I begain coaching cross country I pushed the kids into going out hard every race. I found that this worked with most of the girls on my team and we finished as high as third in our sectionals one year. The boys went did not do as well, and I had a hard time getting them to put in 4 years at the high school level.
If I coached again I would try to get kids to use more of an even paced strategy. I would want them to hold back a little during the first mile so that they are ready for that all important last 1/2 mile where it all happens in cross country.
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No. Without exception, when alumni come and talk to me, they tell me how positive their experiences were.
I have a few doubters, I'm sure. They just never have said anything to my face.
CoachB wrote:
No. Without exception, when alumni come and talk to me, they tell me how positive their experiences were.
I have a few doubters, I'm sure. They just never have said anything to my face.
Wow...real feedback! Thank you.
This only happened to me once but he was one of my top runners.
We ran on this one cc course 3 times per year. His senior year he improved his best time there by 20 some seconds plus moved up in the standings versus the same competition. I understand that he told me this in front of his wife of one year and may have been trying to make an impression. However it's been 20 years and he has not made up for it.
I am sensitive about it as it was the best race of his life! I've made a lot of mistakes as a coach but that was a rare time when I was actually brilliant and the kid did not recognize it!
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