Strava Sharing with Rival Coach?

I used to think I should keep my runs to myself instead of posting where other guys in my division could see, but I realized that fitness is fitness and who cares if they see what I do. It shouldn't change what they do and it wont change how fit I am. I dont think it matters if the other coach sees the workouts, but blocking him might make it weird between your kid and him.

Bob Washington wrote:

I used to think I should keep my runs to myself instead of posting where other guys in my division could see, but I realized that fitness is fitness and who cares if they see what I do. It shouldn't change what they do and it wont change how fit I am. I dont think it matters if the other coach sees the workouts, but blocking him might make it weird between your kid and him.

Reminds me of Haile Gebresslie said when asked what his training looks like.

No. If he wanted to steal your team's workouts he would be able to even if you "blocked" him.

HSrunnerDad wrote:

My son met a runner from another team at a summer camp and now they follow each other on Strava. This kid's Dad (his team's coach) also asked to follow my son. He accepted and didn't think anything of it. With the season starting, is this no big deal or should he block him? I don't think their training is anything secret, but it strikes me as a little odd.

4/10

Pretty good, really. I can see what you were going for, but I’m not sure it has the legs to really go anywhere.

What's the big deal? What are you worried about? That the other coach is going to know how fast your son can run? He'll know that after the first race anyway, right? I don't think the other coach is going to adjust his team's training based on how other teams' runners are training.

Fitness is fitness, and everybody gets there just a little differently. Following another person's training plan is not a good philosophy. If the other coach is copying your son's training plan for his runners, then he probably doesn't really know what he's doing, so you won't have much to worry about.

I've had little moments where I've questioned whether I want to share my workouts with others. Then I realised that while they can steal a workout, they probably won't understand how to apply the work pace/dist/reps for their own ability level.

More importantly hey don't understand how it fits into the bigger picture of training. And really that's the key thing, how everything fits together. There is no secret wonder workout in isolation. Even if someone steals a month's worth of workouts they won't be getting the periodisation for the year.

HSrunnerDad wrote:

My son met a runner from another team at a summer camp and now they follow each other on Strava. This kid's Dad (his team's coach) also asked to follow my son. He accepted and didn't think anything of it. With the season starting, is this no big deal or should he block him? I don't think their training is anything secret, but it strikes me as a little odd.

Let him look but put up a couple of fake mega sessions like 20x1M with 10s recovery then their entire team will end up injured trying to copy it and your team will win everything in sight.

Thanks for the feedback (except Qwerto's). I wasn't concerned about the coach seeing how fast (or slow) my son is running. I just didn't know how openly coaches shared training plans. Sounds like it is not a big deal.