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Poster: webfoot
Subject: RE: Freshman 1600 Sub-4:35?
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Now look who is making excuses. You are blaming your coaches and your own ignorance.

I also graduated in the early 1980s. In HS had a different coach every year, two with no experience or knowledge coaching runners. One coach wanted us to stay indoors and play basketball whenever it rained (in Oregon).

Became friends with other good hish school runners in the Portland area and learned what it takes to improve. I was always repectful to coaches and did their workouts, but mornings and weekends belonged to me so I was able to train an improve.

In HS you should have been more inquisitive.

Flagpole wrote:

Ah dude, you're hilarious. Good to know that you can decipher my PRs and my high school team morale from almost 30 years ago. I will give you this though...you probably could have knocked even more off my times than that even, because when I ran, it was before a ton of training advice was had on the internet, and we had to go with what our coaches told us. I ran 15:48 for 5k and 9:48 for 3200 on about 15 miles a week with hardly any running in the summer. Less is more was the common order of the day in the early-mid 80s. Only a handful of high school coaches knew what they were talking about then, and I went to two different high schools, and all the distance coaches at both schools had a less is more attitude, telling us to "rest up" on the weekends and during the summer.
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