Horrible High School Coach

Dead legs wrote:

Our coach is great, but every once in a while, he kills one of us. Last week, he garroted our top 800 guy after practice. No one saw it, but I haven't heard from the guy since then. Granted, I am not friends with the dude, but I don't see how this helps the team. One of my teammates said the 800 guy just went on vacation with his parents a day early, but I didn't see him at Friday's practice, so I think the coach probably killed him.

I'll go ahead and say that this qualifies as a 'bad coach'. Killing your runners is unprofessional, and it doesn't help the guy run a PR.

I've always been against coaches killing their athletes. It doesn't help the team out at all. Plus, if you kill enough of them, you can't put 5 guys on the line in XC.

I wonder if this is the same team that is being discussed in this other thread on the main page "Coaching a team that doesn't care" If you are only running 40 minutes the day before a meet and complaining about it, you have the problem not the coach. How can you say you work very hard when you are walking on a 5 mile run the day before a race. What do you want to do, run 20 minute? No one does that. And a 9 mile run after a race is a good idea, if you go easy. While doubling twice a week, might not be the best thing, I know many successful coaches who have their athletes do this and they all improve. The difference is the athletes buy into the coach's program and they do what they are supposed to.

Hmmm

I'll go on letsrun and cry about my coach like many others do.

Wait, these are similar to hundreds of other highschool workouts....

Wait, everyone on letsrun that isn't trolling is throwing me under the bus.

Wait, I'm crying about 9 mile runs and 40 minute runs...

Wait, I'm not the best at any event....

Unless you're capable of coming off the winter break running 4:20s for the 1600 I don't see any reason to question your coach.

Not quite enough detail to make a judgement. A 40 min easy run should be a good transition between meets, especially early in the season. If you hammered it, it's your problem, if he told you to run it hard, he's in the wrong. Ditto with the 9 mile run. If you do it at a sane pace, then intervals or an early season meet the day after should go fine. If you run too fast (less than a 7:30 or 8 min pace), then of course your legs will be fatigued.

Quit bitching. Im injured and eking out barely 25miles a week. I would love to run 9 miles. (havent run over 8 since december)

CT Coach wrote:

I wonder if this is the same team that is being discussed in this other thread on the main page "Coaching a team that doesn't care" If you are only running 40 minutes the day before a meet and complaining about it, you have the problem not the coach. How can you say you work very hard when you are walking on a 5 mile run the day before a race. What do you want to do, run 20 minute? No one does that. And a 9 mile run after a race is a good idea, if you go easy. While doubling twice a week, might not be the best thing, I know many successful coaches who have their athletes do this and they all improve. The difference is the athletes buy into the coach's program and they do what they are supposed to.

Actually some teams do the 20 minute thing. My team definately does. We do a 2.4miler or 1.8miler the day before or after a meet. This past week it was only 1 time, but especially if theres a meet rest day then another meet we will do one of the short runs between the 2 meets and probabyl the day after.

My team is 1-5 (The team we beat probably does 20min of running for all their workouts)

if it's an in-season unimportant dual meet, you dont need to cut down the run the day before to 20mins, you can keep it at 40mins, or even 1HR+

To be honest,it is not too bad.

Rape him in front of others. They will follow you and respect you afterwards.

In any distance event, the third lap tends to be slower, especially when the runner is in debt. In the 800, it is the first half of lap two. Any coach worth his salt will tell runners to think (when they hit that spot) about pushing it a little more than usual, just to get them to maintain the pace they should be at, but are not, due to being in debt.

distancerunner64 wrote: But ill leave you with more more thing, the other day before the mile he said " on the third lap, i want you to make a conscious effort to go faster". OK like we don't already. hes just not knowledgeable.

If you're not a troll, you are an incredible pansy who is even less knowledgable about running than your coach. Being conscious of a third-lap lull might seem like common sense to you, but there is absolutley nothing wrong with a coach driving home the point.

In addition to be being a world-class wuss and moron, you also sound like a team cancer. Do everyone a favor, quit, and watch Brady Bunch reruns every afternoon.

After reading this I determined that I'd rather have him as a coach than you as a runner.

go old school wrote:

I'll go ahead and say that this qualifies as a 'bad coach'. Killing your runners is unprofessional, and it doesn't help the guy run a PR.

I've always been against coaches killing their athletes. It doesn't help the team out at all. Plus, if you kill enough of them, you can't put 5 guys on the line in XC.

Point taken. But try to understand the temptation here. I'm looking for the deterrent effect to kick in. Oops, sorry, gotta go. Some guy with a badge is knocking on the door.