after a Winter of XC on grass and once a week on tartan this guy gained a stress fracture with a hairline crack after 5 weeks of racing on mondo. It was 22 races from 100 to 1500 over 5 comps but man.... This is very frustrating for a coach.
after a Winter of XC on grass and once a week on tartan this guy gained a stress fracture with a hairline crack after 5 weeks of racing on mondo. It was 22 races from 100 to 1500 over 5 comps but man.... This is very frustrating for a coach.
No wonder if he has trained once a week on track and then does 22 races on track within 5 weeks. That's over 4 races per competition. It's unsurprising.
Some athletes are programmed to self-destruct and when they are you have to find a way to change the wiring. I might commend this kid for being so tough and durable. Let him know that most runners who tried such a thing as all this racing on a rock hard track would end up with two fractures and they wouldn't be hairline. Or maybe apologize for not remembering to mention that no one ever set a PB in a cast, except maybe for most scratching with a modified hanger. When people are laughing they are open for change.
Anyway, next time remember this story. I use it with some of the post-collegiate runners when I see they seem determined to sabotage the training. It really works like a charm and at worst it helps the athlete start talking about what's really going on....
A farmer was having trouble getting a mule out of the barn and into the yard. He'd pull and pull but the mule would resist at the doorway. The harder the farmer pulled on the mule, the harder it resisted. Finally the farmer got an idea. He began pushing the mule back into the barn. The mule resisted again, harder than ever, but this time the farmer stopped pushing. The mule went running right past the farmer straight out in the yard.
You can take it from there. Usually I say something like sometimes with you kid, I don't know whether to push or pull!
not as frustrating as this:
One of thegirls in my group, a hot shot cross girl, went for
a routine Iron/Magnesium blood test a week or so ago. The
big ape of a nurse talking the sample missed the vein and stuck the needle through an elbow tendon and a nerve.Result
tendon buggered and the poor girl can't run the national trials. Think she could sue someone for that?
vandergraafgenerator wrote:
Think she could sue someone for that?
Hey, you can sue for pretty much anything. Now being *successful*, that's another story...
Anyway, there would likely be some liability there that could be pretty easily proven--not least because veins are typically easy to find in cross runners--and you could go after both the nurse and whoever hired him/her.
What I don't know is what the law is in your jurisdiction, including how much assumption-of-risk is considered standard for such medical procedures. The other question is whether the reward for such a suit would be worth the time/trouble/lawyers' fees spent on it.
Yes, I realize that your question was probably just a joke, but if you're serious, call a torts/malpractice lawyer.
And, by the way, she really has my sympathy. That sucks and I hope she's able to make a full recovery eventually.
A 15 year old 800 meter stress fracture does sound serious. I'm not sure what bone could sustain a fracture of that length or what a runner would be doing to keep in from healing for so many years.