What running-related hill are you willing to die on?

Well yeah. If you're running 18 minutes for 5k, you're not suddenly going to become a 15 minute runner because someone tells you you're running your easy runs 12.9 seconds a kilometre too fast and your tempo runs 4.6 seconds a kilometre too slow.

Most runners (including those in college) are out of shape.

This is based off of years of observation and coaching collegiately.

US based of course. All of these training tools and charts and watches and heart rate zones = unless.

Get in shape!!! Running is so much easier when you are in shape. You can run 80 miles a week and still be out of shape.

The beer and pizza diet is the best diet for a runner.

No one can convince me otherwise

Amen

Make CC more like Nordic skiing - weather conditions are so variable why does it matter that the course stays the same?

Too many people blame their shortcomings on lack of talent and other people using drugs

What does this mean?

I think he means fat.

this was the point of the thread essentially: what is a belief you hold that most runners scoff at? if the idea doesn't seem "really dumb" to most then i'd say it prob doesn't fit the criteria

i.e. "doubles work" is gonna get 90%+ upvotes because the majority of us believe it to be so, thus you're not dying on that hill because you're protected by 90% of the masses and can go kill the midwits willing to die on the "singles are superior" hill

Runfluencers have ruined the sport and encouraged guys to run shirtless when they have no business doing so.

VO2 needs to be worked every single week no matter the time of year (unless on break obv). Volume of the workout and rest period are the only thing that change when moving through phases.

Here are three things that you won't be able to convince me to change my mind about:

1) your weight matters a lot more than you think. Bigger runners are not always slower than leaner, lighter, smaller runners, but if a person can stay strong and healthy, they will race faster at a lighter weight than a heavier one. I am semi-fat now and running is sooo much harder.

If I did 10 killer workouts and hit all my splits, then raced a 5km, I would be slower than if I just ran base mileage, lost 12lbs, and raced the 5km. The easier way to get faster would be for me to lose 12 lbs., not by "training harder." (and no, training harder does not cause me to lose weight).

2) mileage also matters more than killer workouts. Unless you are running the 800/1500, I would prioritize getting my miles in over doing three all-out workouts each week. I used to run like 45 miles a week with three intense workouts. I was always exhausted and never had enough endurance. I should have run more mileage.

3) The best way to keep the passion and love for the sport alive is by having great friends and teammates. I use to think running "fast" and getting PRs is what was motivating me, but when those things stopped, I still loved the sport because of the people I ran/run with.

A lot of runners would have fewer injury issues and be able to stand more mileage if they trained in flats with a 20-24 mm stack height and 4-6 mm drop. There is something about feeling the footstrike that leads to more natural running. You don't even think about the shoe when you have a shoe like this.

I also think golf course grass is the ideal running surface.

Lmao let's not gatekeep people running in what's comfortable for them to run in.

Galen Rupp is the best American born distance runner.

better than Matt Withrow, Ryan Hall, Chris Solinsky, Matt Tegenkamp, Chris Derrick and Jonathan Marcus.

Hard to find a shoe like this these days. What still exists out there?

El Guerrouj was clean.

The "interval" is the rest period between reps.

You don't "run hard intervals." You run hard in between the intervals.

That's some industrial strength copium

You are right! But nobody knows that anymore!