Branching off of an earlier post, what is the most unusual or downright dumb / naive training (besides not running) you ever did?
For most of you this might be when you first got started and were a baby in the discipline. For instance, it is funny how much I didn't know when I first started. In early HS, I thought running shoes was simply a marketing ploy and that they held no advantage over a regular court shoe. I trained from a 5:40 to 5:06 (not yet running for the school) by running 2 or 3 miles a week. I would sit for 15-30 min psyching myself out (procrastinating). Then with NO stretching and NO warm-up, I would line up at the end of my drive way and do a balls to the wall race for 1 mile. Most of the time, I would hurl afterwards, and I would always be so pissed if I didn't PR. I did this 2-3 times a week for 5 weeks or so. Anything different, I assumed was unnecessary, dumb, or if done more often, just too painful. Anybody else ever as green as that?
Goes to show how mainstream XC/track is/was.