Guy said I "wasted" my long run because I did intervals the next day

There is some merit in this wrote:

Run Waster. wrote:

It was to do with the gains from running coming from recovery and if you don't recover after a run you won't get the gains from it. Very simplistic but there you go.

Anecdotal but when I came back from injury and ran a lot less with more recovery days, I improved my PBs at 5 and 10k. Seen other people on here say the same thing when they came back to running after "quitting".

malmo wrote:

I love track wrote:

He's probably referring to, among others, Hoey and Hoppel, who have been described as underperforming in when it matters relative to their fast SBs and PBs. (Failing at WC trials, failing in the DL final as chance to to get into WC.)

(I don't fully agree, but that would be my guess.)

I see what you're saying....

One thing I learned from life that translates well to athletics is that sometimes you will have days like that, Grown-ups simply move forward.

Secondly, focusing on what others do, or don't do, is what losers do.

Last of all. anyone who is in the game is clutch. Anyone who makes a final in a WC or OG is clutch. Anyone who even gets invited to a DL event is clutch. Denigrating them or offering dumb advice to them is the polar opposite of clutch.