Why are you dragging your wife into this? You mention in the title title that the coach hates you both, but the story you tell only involves you.
Why are you dragging your wife into this? You mention in the title title that the coach hates you both, but the story you tell only involves you.
Okay, here's how I see that you can turn this into a win-win for you and the coach. Right now you're setting your kid up to loose no matter what, so we won't worry about that.
Without even really having to read between the lines, it's obvious that you're proud of your own athletic accomplishments, but maybe don't fill fulfilled or that you've really met your potential, so here's what you need to do: instead of living vicariously through your kid, you should take this opportunity to finally claim the glory you didn't quite see in your past... You need to fight the coach.
More importantly, you need to fight the coach while livestreaming on every social channel. Is there an A/V club at your kid's school? You may want to recruit them to help with the production end of this. If there's a student paper, you could maybe hire some of those kids to write press releases for you after the fight to share with all the news outlets... go for incendiary headlines like "NH dad messes with Texas: stomps out middle school running coach!"
Leverage the media attention that you'll get to challenge some influencer turd like one of the Paul brothers or whoever to a fight in Vegas... Now you'll finally have the limelight and attention you weren't able to earn from your running career?
How does the coach win? Well, he's gonna sue your ass off, and he's gonna win. He'll be able to quit his miserable coaching job and retire somewhere nicer than Texas. But you'll be making that D-list influencer money now, so it won't matter, any press will be good press for you. You already hinted that you hate libs, so you can probably get a bunch of conservatives to donate to a legal defense fund, which you'll also be able to embezzle from... this will only help build your profile.
You're on your way to fame & glory my man!
Grumble, grumble, grumble wrote:
Why are you dragging your wife into this? You mention in the title title that the coach hates you both, but the story you tell only involves you.
If you believe what he is saying, he says that he never mentioned his running credentials. It is safe to assume that his wife is the one who mentioned to all the other parents about how great of a runner her husband is and how much he knows about running and way more than the coach. She probably even told the coach as much. Yeah, if any of what he said he is true, the coach hates them both and feels sorry for the kid. That is why the coach does not put up with hovercraft dad. Sounds like a great coach.
try better... c'mon man! creative writing isn't that difficult.
I’d start by quitting being such a douche nozzle.
soccerplayer1123 wrote:
List of (male) All-American XC Runners from Dartmouth College:
2001: Tom McArdle
2002: ""
2005: Ben True
List of (male) All-American T/F Runners from Dartmouth College:
2001: Tom McArdle (10K)
2002: "" (10K)
2003: Mustafa Abdur-Rahim (Decathlon)
2004: Sean Fury (Jav)
2004: Mustafa Abdur-Rahim (Decathlon)
2005: Sean Fury (Jav)
2005: Mustafa Abdur-Rahim (Decathlon)
2007: Ben True (1500m)
Tom McArdle was in OK around 2006 and got a Master's degree from Texas.
A Ben True married a Sarah Groff and there is a Sarah True but they had their first son in 2021.
The OP said he was from NH and went to an Ivy school. There is no reason to assume it's Dartmouth. It's still clearly a troll post though.
You sound like a lovely human to be around.
Implausible story. Not sure of motivation, to what end? How not to parent a budding athlete?
Question4 wrote:
Usually he does 400m repeats at 1:18, the other day however he was running 1:45 to 2:00 and jogging with his friends during the intervals so obviously I yelled if you aren't going run get off the course stop wasting your time and hit the splits you know you are capable of.
The interval is the rest period between repeats. You are supposed to go easy during intervals. If you didn't, it wouldn't be a repeat workout. It would just be one crazy fast run all at the same pace.
I've coached private school HS and JH in Texas. Part of coaching JH is realizing that there will be days the kids will screw around, and even the top kids will do the same. I once brought my dog to practice because I had to take him to the vet right afterwards. We didn't accomplish anything that day as they all wanted to play with my dog. It's perfectly okay. I want the kids to learn a bit, and more importantly, learn to enjoy running as it's something they can do the rest of their lives. I tell the parents that their job is to get the kids to the bus on time and to make sure they have water, shoes, and their uniforms. I'll handle the rest. If I feel a parent is going overboard on their child, I will address that parent directly and in private.
When my son was running cross country, I did coach him. However, I never chewed him out in front of others, just as I wouldn't chew out some other kid. They are kids; let them act like it at times. Hell, I lost my entire team twice one year; once during a workout when they all went to 7-11 for slurpees and another time when they discovered the local public school had girls on their team.
My son also played soccer at a high level. I took him to practice and used that time to get in a 90-minute run a couple of times each week. I never watched his practices. His coach was paid to coach the kids, and I let him do his job. For games, we had a rule that we could only discuss that game on the ride home. After that, it was go do something else. We had one parent who always asked her child, "Did you have fun?" after a game. My son was too competitive to ask him that question, but it made sense. If you don't enjoy being out there, go find something that you do enjoy.
Lighten up, Francis.
Question4 wrote:
in college ran ivy league and ran 28:50s for 10,000m and also earned All American a couple of times,
No you didn't. End of thread.
^^^^ This
28:50 is very fast. What is your name?
28:50s was the estimate 100% not saying my name.
soccerplayer1123 wrote:
Sounds super fake but maybe we can figure out who this person is.
What we know about the poster (guy):
(1) Ivy league college in NH - clearly Dartmouth College.
(2) In his 30s - born 1991-1982
(3) All-American ran 28:00-30:00 for 10K
(4) Now lives in Texas.
(5) Kid is in the 7th grade - born 11-13 years
HS - NH? 1996-2005
Uni: 2000-2010
Tx: 2015-2021
Who is our mystery dad?
Get a life
Could the LRC mods edit the title “ My Wife and I ?” ….
1. You never brought up your credentials…..yet people talked about them, sure🤔
2. Why are you even at your kids practice. Let the coach do his job.