Why does runccg make excuses for all of his athletes?

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3 years ago 09/19/2020 12:25pm EDT

It seems that in all of his instagram posts he creates some excuse for the times his athletes run. Just check the caption in his latest post of his athlete who ran a 15:31 xc 5k: "set a new PR in 15:31 despite only going out in 5:05 for the first mile." Despite only going out in 5:05?? 15:31 is ~5:00 per mile. A 5:05 first mile is completely reasonable. In fact, it's probably the only reason the kid was able to negative split. All of his posts start out with some sort of his excuse for his athletes. It is time for him to grow up and realize that not having a perfect race justifies what he feels is a substandard time. Definitely wouldn't shell out thousands a year for him to coach my kid.

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3 years ago 09/19/2020 12:52pm EDT

re: runnningonpbr

I do not get the logic behind those idiots who pay money for a coach. It makes even less sense when they already have access to one at their school.

3 years ago 09/19/2020 1:28pm EDT

re: Sham 69

Well, alot of those kids run pretty well. I'm sure theres plenty we don't see who don't do well but still.

That being said, they do sorta conduct themselves like jerks on their socials and I've seen their athletes gang up on people in comments. Not a great look

3 years ago 09/19/2020 1:53pm EDT

re: RunBBC

From what I've seen, the results aren't that impressive. Most of the "improvement" seems to be from being a year older and moving up/down in distance.

I don't know what the training is like, but I doubt it's very sophisticated. If he just says "run more volume, don't blast your easy days" then it's not actual coaching. And if he gives out "special workouts" that's BS too, it's not like doing 8x800 vs a ladder workout this Tuesday really matters.

I think most of them just pay for the idea of getting an "elite" coach. That way they can be part of a special club but still not run any faster than I did back in the day.

3 years ago 09/19/2020 3:26pm EDT

re: Bleh

We are lucky we have JS. He just develops every runner he coach.

1 year ago 07/28/2022 6:05pm EDT

re: Happy America

I've seen a couple of your responses referencing JS. Can I ask who that is?

1 year ago 07/28/2022 7:14pm EDT

re: Bleh

Bleh wrote:
From what I've seen, the results aren't that impressive. Most of the "improvement" seems to be from being a year older and moving up/down in distance.
I don't know what the training is like, but I doubt it's very sophisticated. If he just says "run more volume, don't blast your easy days" then it's not actual coaching. And if he gives out "special workouts" that's BS too, it's not like doing 8x800 vs a ladder workout this Tuesday really matters.
I think most of them just pay for the idea of getting an "elite" coach. That way they can be part of a special club but still not run any faster than I did back in the day.

Run CCG is a scam. They burn athletes out for college by overtraining them in high school. Then they brag on social media how they got a 6:40 miler to run 4:59 at the end of his senior year - just to convince more athletes to pay.

70% of the improvements are just the athletes getting older and the other 30% is by screwing up their long term development. They have more failures than successes but they'll never post about the failures.

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