Do I have a right to be angry at my teammate?

CuriousHSer wrote:

Yesterday I had my indoor state meet, and my teammate and I were seed 3rd and 4th in the mile respectively. Throughout the race, he elbowed me every chance he got, and cut me off whenever I tried to pass him. He was really mad when I beat him at state last year, and I think he was trying to avoid that this time. But, at the same time, we are teammates, and I was a second off my pr, adding insult to injury, that I probably could have run that if not for him.... do I have a right to be mad?

You can act like a man! What's the matter with you? The fact that you are even asking this question makes me question your masculinity.

You gotta take that bast*rd. Now you could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think you have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part. And you're just the guy to do it.

i chose D2 wrote:

Les wrote:

Track is an individual sport, it's not a team sport. Mad? No, he wanted it more than you.

If you want to beat your teammates, just run faster. Pull crap like this on my team and you get to watch from the bleachers next week. Post about crap like this on LR or social media and you also get to watch from the bleachers next week.

Hey look everybody! It's Captain Buzzkill! Seriously, bro? Patrolling Letsrun and "social media" for comments your athletes make? Do you not have anything better to do after practice, coach? I bet you go home and pound the Bojangles #4 combo night after night, watching reruns of Seinfeld and beating off.

trackislife12 wrote:

You should have let him go and dusted him at the end. Don't be mad, get over it. Go out there and show him who is boss without elbows in outdoor.

This is the right answer.

Don't worry about him or spend any other energy on him. Get busy getting faster.

Train harder, race faster.

And do it with class, it’ll make him more pissed if you act like it’s no big deal