I was told my best distance should be 400m
My best for 200m was 27 and in open 400m races my best was 59. At the time I had done 15:54 for 5km, I worked a lot on my sprint finish and people mistakenly thought I was fast when that was actually all I had.
Another was a lot of people back in the 80's were pushing the quality not quantity and saying how well they ran off 30 mpw.
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Had a guy tell me I should just run half a mile every day to get faster at 800m.
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LOL! This is a good question.
Not to me, but I heard a national coach say something about throwing a load of eggs up a wall and the best ones would not break and become international athletes. -
New coach my junior year of college said I didn't need to run more than 45 mpw. I was an 80-100 mpw kind of runner at the time. Ran like absolute garbage, or course. Lesson: Dont take advice from people who run 2:00+ minutes slower than you in a 5k.
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Real Lyfe Nobodee wrote:Lesson: Dont take advice from people who run 2:00+ minutes slower than you in a 5k.
Gold!
On topic:
One runner who is always showing up at park runs runs tempo effort for all his training runs. He never slows down, considers 9+ min/mi walking, had run 1.25 HM since forever but needed like 5 years to break 3 (2.59-ish, solo run in the park, so no measured course). He doesn't run in the summer because he doesn't like the heat, he just bikes. A lot. And he doesn't realize that his advice of not running slower than 8-9 min/mi is bad for new runners(think 22+ min for 5K) as he has built his own aerobic engine on the bike. He doesn't like speedwork either, it's too strenuous for him, but magically, he expects to improve his 5K/10K times. And fails. He's ~40 yrs old. I've never listened to any of his advices. -
Don't worry about your weight.
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The 10 percent rule. Been doing it for 52 weeks now. I'm still running 0 per week. I don't think it's working.
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Not advice to me per see but I knew a college runner who seriously believed if he ran a minimum amount of miles in five fingers shoes he would be in as good of shape as if he ran real mileage in real trainers
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Lactic Acid destroys capillaries (given as a reason to run slow all the time)
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probably people saying quality>quantity. running 30-50 mpw and doing easy runs at 6:00-6:15 will get you good in high school maybe, but past that youre toast (for distance anyway, i know that a good deal of 800 runners can get away with doing less)
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malmo wrote:
The 10 percent rule. Been doing it for 52 weeks now. I'm still running 0 per week. I don't think it's working.
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The new round laces are easier to tie.
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"you have to give it your all, every day."
I realize that HS coaches say this stuff because if they say it's OK to take it easy there are some kids that won't do anything. ... but for some of us we DID hit it hard every day and left some good races out on the practice field. -
Before my first marathon a lady told our beginner training group that if we waited until we were thirsty to hydrate, then it was too late. Said, we should drink something at every aid station. Probably a miracle no one died of hyponatremia that race.
I've always wondered who told Lance Armstrong to eat a Gu gel every mile in his marathon. -
Train like an Olympian right now, when I hadn't done any training at all.
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No one under 25 should be running a marathon! Wait until you are almost 30 to run your first marathon. It's not a speed event so, you have plenty of time to improve your 5 and 10K performances.
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In college we did repeat miles on Mondays and 800s on Wednesday. On a Tuesday we were doing what was supposed to be 7 or 8 easy but a couple guys started pushing the pace, getting to MP/tempo. I told them to slow it down, another teammate told me to STFU. So I brought it up to the coach and he said I was the one in the wrong.
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If I ran too much my uterus would fall out. And I'm a guy.
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The worst advice is that weight doesn't matter. Weight is the most important factor in running faster times.
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That training at altitude makes a difference. It doesn't...…..unless you plan to race at altitude.
Far better to run in humidity, since you more likely to race in humidity.
Flag (by itself) hasn't improved a single runner; but other factors have.
