this sport destroyed up my life

Dunno man.

Do you love running? Does it make you excited and passionate? Do you look forward to your job? Does it make you smile?

You could be clocking into a 50 hour a week corporate job of looking at excel, dealing with grief, bored to tears, answering an endless stream of emails.

I wish I could be a coach, but no-one wants me to help unlock the secrets of a 47 minute 10k or 1:25 10 mile

I am nothing

I envy you

I thought run4fun ran a 69 minute 10 miler?

At my pinnacle, not any more bud

A washed jogger

Assuming your thread isn’t a troll thread, in fact I just thought of something. Let’s have troll be variable T, and X be whatever the response is if the constant T was subtracted from it. In other words we will just act as though the thread question is real, and we are just eliminating the possibility of it being fictitious.

So,

Thread Reply= X-T.

Seems like a fair equation to write as a heading in a reply post from now on.

Anyway, I think you have found that running and coaching are not life fulfilling. My advice would be to just take a risk and apply for maybe two easy entry level jobs just to get out of doing something you hate. For instance Uber driving and food delivery. The pay will be variable but still dependable because of high demand and you can set your own schedule. There will be big tip opportunities occasionally. Take a weekend bartending or waiting job. These are jobs that will give you stable pay and just a way to get out of coaching until you find something you are passionate for. They are just temporary but robust enough to give you options. Avoid cashiering and fixed pay checks with no options.

To add, if you still seriously train, my advice would be to quit. You’ll find a healthier exercise routine through; moderate to heavy few reps barbell weight training, long brisk walks or hiking, recreational sports, some swimming and biking. The key with all of these exercises is to avoid a middle way moderate approach. Take walking easy and don’t exert. Same with swimming or biking. Maybe one moderate intensity aerobic workout per week. Never red-line again. Protein rich and vitamins rich foods with no sugar whatsoever and two days per week for the weightlifting. Follow these guidelines and you’ll be out of your funk in no time.

You may be happier coaching as a private coach on the side and not a coach dictated by the insane stifling insensible policies of the public school system. 2 jobs with flexibility, coaching gig for enthusiastic athletes on the side, and new exercise approach. You’ll be happier in weeks.

Aren't semi-pro Japanese runners part-time deskies for corporations. Why can't corporations like Target/Home-Depot do that in America? And make a relay race. That is a sport.

But...Average Joe's play golf. Golf is a "sport". It is more socially accepted than running in America.

Therefore do Speed Golf like Nick Willis.

Join the military.Coast Guard is wanting 15,000 more people by 2028. Decent pay, rewarding missions, see cool places and fitness is taken pretty seriously (at least compared to any civilian job othe than fire fighters.)

Meh. Slow and unpredictable promotions. The pay is not great, the missions are dangerous with little to no recognition for being accomplished, the places you go will be uncomfortable and unsanitary, and military fitness is calculated by group statistical averaging with no consideration of how the standardized exercises fit the individual’s health. Being in the military sucks. Trust me, I was in. Don’t join OP. There are probably a thousand better decisions you could make to get out of your situation before you should ever resort to joining the military. Life at Sea is selling it as a fun adventure. It isn’t. It’s hours of low paid unrecognized drudgery in dangerous and awful conditions. You’d be better off staying in your miserable current coaching job. Don’t do it.

Have you had the official ceremony yet? The one where they stick a fork in you? If not I would like to attend to show my support.