Dumb Teammate

Where's the coach on this?

Anyway, just keep on doing what you do and take care of yourself. You'll find another guy to fill in if he isn't up to the standard you need.

I am a junior and he is a sophomore. For his 800 last year he ran a 2:16 and I ran 2:07. This was in the january to february time frame. For the 2019 track, he was not in high school and my freshman year I ran a 2:10 800, a 4:44 mile, and I could have probably done 56-57 in the 400. His 400 time for indoor was 60 flat when he ran it in a relay.

You both seem fast enough to have a really good year. I guess you could have run 2:00 to 2:02 with spring track, and around 4:25 for 1600m. Great sophomore year, if you had sports.

This suggests that your teammate's injury from indoor intervals is the concern.

Too many interval session per week can lead to injuries, especially on 200m tracks (the curves are too tight, and so can cause bias).

General rule: 2 hard session per week, 2 medium, 2 easy, 1 day very easy or rest.

That doesn't mean all interval sessions, but refers to distance runs as well.

I think as this stage of the season, your teammate should be targeting 2:08 pace on his 200s, so run 32s, but might be closer to 33 because of 200m track.

If he is running 3 or more interval sessions, that seems excessive.

If 3 sessions per week,, but also a couple of easy days running (and days off or in the gym), then he should be okay.

Weight workouts are important, especially while growing in HS.

If the weather is not good for your training, so you only do distance runs, try running Homer fartlek, which is steady running, then short bursts of 50-150m, then slowing down some, then repeat. Do this for 3-4 miles. Great training and works on your speed.

Do one Homer Fartlek per week, and one steady run of 4-5 miles. Can also have an easy day of 45-60 minutes, which most runners do. That's three good days, and if you can add an easy day with some strides, or you can do 1 indoor workout per week, that is pretty good until after the holiday break.

Update: he did a time trial today and ran 5:09 for the mile. So maybe he will realize now.

This kid is doing high level mid-D training. He is not training for the 1600. Now that we know he was only a freshman last year, we can predict that he will have a huge breakthrough this year. I sense your concern that you are jogging while he has access to a track and a coach. I predict 1:59 for him and 2:02 for you.

Mid-D college runners are doing the same training as your teammate. They are not the training that you are doing.

You need to focus on your own training. This kid is going to be a middle distance runner. Extra high level training in high school will get him to peak sooner which will get more college interest. He is doing everything right and you know it.