Running unattached in high school?

Another H.S. Coach wrote:

Honestly, from the way you write & the awful things you say, if I was your coach, I'd WANT YOU TO QUIT & run unattached! Sheez.

Nobody wants a know-it-all on snot on the team. Just because you come on this website doesn't make you an expert on running.

I'm SURE your coaches know what they're doing. I'm SURE they read books, go to clinics, take classes, watch videos, etc. I'm SURE they care about their athletes too.

Most importantly, I'm SURE they probably don't want you on the team...if you're going to act the way you are.

Go try training on your own, Pre! Good luck!

Seriously "Another HS Coach"? I sure as hell wouldnt want you as my coach with a bitter old fart attitude like that. The kid has every right to question crappy coaching. Hard on hard followed by tempo is a recipe for injury for a HS Kid and I am sure you know that. You are sure about all of that sh*t because ...? You have no more knowledge of the situation than the kid may have about training. Get off his ass. Coaches like you make me ill anyway.

To the OP. Its really not much of an option. My advice is to suck it up an tough it out. Not running w your team raises a lot of red flags with college coaches. Be "sick" certain days if you have to (and run on your own). Find a way around it.

just another guy = stuck w/ match.com. The writing style is unmistakable.

just another guy wrote:

Remaining unattached in high school is probably a pretty good idea. I think it is a mistake to get married while still in high school. When we speak of being 'attached' I have to assume you are talking about marriage. I think the area becomes a bit gray if we are including those currently in a monogamous dating relationship. While this situation MAY be referred to as attached, in reality there is no tie that binds the two parties in a legal attachment. So the easy answer is to remain unattached in high school (i.e. single).

By the same token try to get as much action as possible.

This past year my coach left in the middle of the school year right before track season. His replacement was a very inexperienced woman who runs but didn't know much about how to coach track at all. I'm the best and most experienced runner on my team, so I pretty did whatever I felt like I needed to do and she was ok with it. I still ran on the school team but did most of my own training. I did run unattached once though, so i could run in a bigger, more competitive race that my team wasn't going to. It was great and helped me run a huge PR, so if you wanted to you could probably just go to some different meets and run unattached, but still stay on your school's team.

You from Bloomington?

no

Dropped out of UNI as well. Back at home attending a local community college.

jack daniels recommends two hard days in a row.... not the worst thing ever.

I dont believe that Dr. Daniels recommends that at all. His comments on that lead you to believe there are instances where it may be beneficial, and I know that he has had some of his own athletes do just that. But I would not say that he recommends it at all. Then there is the issue of all hard days not being equal. You may well be able to do Tempo and NM Speed on back to backs. But NM Speed and Vo2M work would not go well together at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote:

They are essentially clueless, we run two hard days in a row, sometimes 3 during track, where they would make us do a hard tempo the day before a quad meet.

Doesn't Jack Daniels say to run both hard days consecutively, its the second day after a hard run that affects you the most.

everyone is ripping into the op but honestly if you have 30-40 kids on the team and no one is sub 16:30... either your school got screwed in the gene pool or in the effort pool or the coaches are not doing what they need to do. That said doing your own training is not always the best. If you're serious about it you better do your homework. Read books, get on the training part of this website (sometimes), educate yourself about physiology. Once you do that i'd still say stay on the team and do your own stuff outside of practice.

peace

Ahhhh yeah wrote:

everyone is ripping into the op but honestly if you have 30-40 kids on the team and no one is sub 16:30... either your school got screwed in the gene pool or in the effort pool or the coaches are not doing what they need to do. That said doing your own training is not always the best. If you're serious about it you better do your homework. Read books, get on the training part of this website (sometimes), educate yourself about physiology. Once you do that i'd still say stay on the team and do your own stuff outside of practice.

peace

This was more or less the conclusion I came to. While I don't particularly like what my coaches are doing, I still have two more years of school and limited options. I just need to work around what they're doing as best I can and hope I don't get screwed over by it.