The rabbit went out too slow/too fast.
The rabbit went out too slow/too fast.
I LOVE COLLEGE wrote:
"I was just tempoing..."
I swear over half of all college runners are always "just tempoing". Then there's always some other reason why their races when it counted were as slow as their "tempos".
Joe Newton has a humorous "excuses checklist" in his book.
I always enjoy hearing people complain about a self-inflicted problem as if the problem is some external factor that happened to them. Most complaints about diet fall into this category. I ran in high school with a kid who complained almost every day that his workout/race/run didn't go well because he hadn't eaten lunch that day. He'd talk about his failure to consume food as if it was an injury--like he was the victim of some unfortunate twist of fate.
Similarly, people like to complain that they ate too much or ate something that sit well. You eat lunch and then go for a run nearly every single day of your life. Yet here you are at a track meet in mid-April telling me that after completing XC season, indoor season, and half of outdoor season, you're just now realizing that a 14-inch meatball sub fro Wegmans might not be the ideal thing to eat 3 hours before a 3200m.
"The weather was too hot/cold/windy."(And...?)
"I was dehydrated." (I never know if I should mention that testing runners after races shows that champions are among the most dehydrated)
One of my new mantras for when I start thinking any of the thoughts mentioned in this thread: "So what?"
"The weather was too hot/cold/windy."(And...?)
"I was dehydrated." (I never know if I should mention that testing runners after races shows that champions are among the most dehydrated)
One of my new mantras for when I start thinking any of the thoughts mentioned in this thread: "So what?"