If you're really a good friend, you should continue thinking of him as a bothersome weakling and tell him that he'll never amount to anything.
If you're really a good friend, you should continue thinking of him as a bothersome weakling and tell him that he'll never amount to anything.
It's track.
Your time defines how fast you are.
It's not subjective
When I was in high school we had,a joke on our team that now 20 years later still talks about how good he was. The guy broke 5 in the mile once. He is an assistant coach at our high school and has also convinced himself and our high school coach that my IAAF World athletic profile is for someone else with my same name yet my name is pretty rare. In high school I still ran decent times 9:19 for the 3200 which I did off of 15 miles a week so of course I developed into an actual runner in college. The guy can't understand that he sucked he refers to a sub 40 10k as world class and argued with me about it. I said a sub 40 10k is world class in the race walk. There are a lot of closited idiots who think they are way better then they are let the races sort them out.
frusturatedwithteammates wrote:
So one of my teammates (I'll say M) is CONVINCED he's a star recruit for some reason or another, and is trying to make the team for a local D2 program in my area. Now, that wouldn't be an issue except his times are hella average (he's been good enough to be on our state teamx4 years as our #7) and he seems to think him being on the state team means he is an INDIVIDUAL state caliber athlete. We have another guy on our team who is actually being recruited by the D2 team, and regularly eats M alive. However, M instead crap talks to our runner, belittles them, and tries every which way to somehow make up for the fact he is 30 seconds slower than him on a GOOD day. I have to admit, especially with championship season coming up, it's getting a little hard to focus with M constantly starting stuff on the team.
I am friends with M and want to be there for him, but there is no way he'd even make the team, and I know for a fact the coach (a family friend) is not even slightly interested. Do i break him the truth and hurt him? at the end of the day, I want him to believe in himself but not at the expense of our team.
Troll 4/10.
But your story is more about your fear that you may be like that guy you made up for the troll.
M is gonna be fast one day I bet. Check back in four years
the good thing about running as opposed to many other sports is the time dosnt lie im sure he knows how good he is relative to other people.