Is it me or are coaches/athletes who favor low mileage and lots of speed work hard to trust? I've been around the sport for a long time and find the base-strength-tempo-threshold guys much more honest and likable.
Is it me or are coaches/athletes who favor low mileage and lots of speed work hard to trust? I've been around the sport for a long time and find the base-strength-tempo-threshold guys much more honest and likable.
eggy mush wrote:
Is it me or are coaches/athletes who favor low mileage and lots of speed work hard to trust? I've been around the sport for a long time and find the base-strength-tempo-threshold guys much more honest and likable.
What lol? Untrustworthy in what way? Are you basing this off your personal experience of one or two individuals?
My coach is that type of guy but he isn't really hard to trust I don't get what u mean by that... but he totally ruined my running this year so that sucks cuz of all the intensity and basically so little mileage... Luckily I'm gonna start training on my own more.
Generally speaking from the guys i knew from the road racing scene. I became a coach a few years ago for the HS level and see it with some of the coaches in my area. This crew is more likely to fudge seed times, ignore rules and procedures for xc/track. Maybe they are just always looking for shortcuts?
eggy mush wrote:
Generally speaking from the guys i knew from the road racing scene. I became a coach a few years ago for the HS level and see it with some of the coaches in my area. This crew is more likely to fudge seed times, ignore rules and procedures for xc/track. Maybe they are just always looking for shortcuts?
Right
Marathoners are the most trustworthy, sprinters the least.
I've never met a white low mileage coach. Draw your own conclusions.
Wrong. My coach is white and does tons of low mileage and intense stuff... then again he wasn't even a distance runner.., but he was a sprinter
Hi, Myles wrote:
I've never met a white low mileage coach. Draw your own conclusions.
My conclusion: you are a crazy old b'stard.
The original low mileage coach was Peter Coe. Colm O'Connel has Rudisha run 35mpw.
Just get over your white superiority. You'll be in the ground one day just like every other person on Earth.
What the actual fck? wrote:
Hi, Myles wrote:I've never met a white low mileage coach. Draw your own conclusions.
My conclusion: you are a crazy old b'stard.
The original low mileage coach was Peter Coe. Colm O'Connel has Rudisha run 35mpw.
Just get over your white superiority. You'll be in the ground one day just like every other person on Earth.
Low mileage myth invented by a white guy. Coe never counted morning runs, warm ups/cool downs in mileage. And I don't buy Rudi is only 35 mpw. Kenyan 400h gold medalist did mile reps with a weight vest.
Any one size fits all training approach, be it high, moderate or low mileage, really isn't coaching.
The primary sign of a good coach is flexible individualization.
Hi, Myles wrote:
What the actual fck? wrote:My conclusion: you are a crazy old b'stard.
The original low mileage coach was Peter Coe. Colm O'Connel has Rudisha run 35mpw.
Just get over your white superiority. You'll be in the ground one day just like every other person on Earth.
Low mileage myth invented by a white guy. Coe never counted morning runs, warm ups/cool downs in mileage. And I don't buy Rudi is only 35 mpw. Kenyan 400h gold medalist did mile reps with a weight vest.
Do you realise what you are saying? You are claiming that no white coaches that tell you they use low mileage with their boys.
I pointed out two well known internationally renowned coaches that did promote this exact thing.
So you have accepted you are completely wrong and a racist also.
I don't give a shit what Bett did, Kenyans don't all train the same you racist, Rudisha ran 35mpw with Colm and Coe claimed low mileage is much better and didn't run more than 55mpw as a miler.
Why do people like you exist?
Usually these guys are the first to quit the sport right at age 22 once they get a desk job. They like acting like tough guys and insist on being "middle distance" so mileage doesn't work for them. They don't do long runs because they think they're crap. They usually had the lowest GPAs on our XC team, and they act like special snowflakes because they feel that because they're so injury prone, they can't run as much. And they usually try to train with teammates way faster than they are at the long distances especially during the fall XC season.
They don't take any 8k xc races seriously and show up in shit shape in september because of it.
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Wrong. My coach is white and does tons of low mileage and intense stuff... then again he wasn't even a distance runner.., but he was a sprinter
If you do tons of low mileage is it still low mileage? Seems like high mileage to me.
I concur with the OP. Low mileage is the mark of the beast.
Hi, Myles wrote:
I've never met a white low mileage coach. Draw your own conclusions.
Low mileage coaches are all black and untrustworthy. Wow. Heard it all on Letsrun now for sure.