a coach for an injured runner

Goodluck kid. Sounds like you have a passion for running. take your time getting back into it. By that I mean take atleast 5 weeks before you get up to 100 miles a week. Run mostly on soft surfaces like grass to keep you bones/muscles happy.

Since you are in HS, and you said your HS coach has given up already on it. The first thing you should do is sit down with him and have a serious talk about your goal and what training you need to do. That is his job as your HS coach. If he is not the same person that coached you in XC then you should sit down with the XC coach.

the sucky thing is i have honestly sat down and talked with him about it. hes the xc coach to and told me to give it up and prepare for college. he plans on preparing another kid on my team for the record which makes me pissed. i know im no world beater, but my god i just want the record and prove everyone wrong. Make a comeback. Anything to prove im good

High mileage works. Run a shit ton more than anyone else.

I am a HS coach and I personally think your coach is wrong telling you that and preparing the other kid. You have missed 7 weeks and will miss 8 weeks in total of very valuable training for spring track. I biggest worry about you is that you will train yourself into an injury again. Just start back slowly and get in some miles while staying healthy.

When track starts train with the kid the, so called coach, is training for the record. You will get the same workouts and maybe you and the other kid can push each other so both of you can beat the record.

In defense of the coach, he may be playing mind games with you to piss you off and motivate you to go after the record.

hes the not type to do "mind games" and the wierd thing is the kid is a 10:402 miler from last year and has never even come close to breaking 17 minutes. ive been training hard fopr 3 and a half years for this. hell the coach even said he didnt care if i showed up for track. i know indoor isnt gonna happen but i want it badly. ill do anything for the stupid record just to prove a point.

bump please theres gotta be one person willing to help me

i dont know about where you can find a coach, but i had a similar situation with my senior year where i had a 5k pr of 16:28 had a stress fracture in my hip and didnt have a track coach. i came back added mileage slowly and did a lot of tempo/threshold type runs like 5:50-6:00 pace for up to 10 miles. i had no idea what i was doing but when track started i started doing shorter fast stuff and actually ran 9:54, 9:47, 9:41, and 9:36 in a 6 week season so good luck thats what worked for me.

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bump, would someone please help me! ill do anything just please help me i will do everything i am asked of. please

Damn listen!

Run 100 miles per week until 2 weeks before your record attempt. Run 80 miles the week before the record attempt. Run 5 miles easy everyday the week of the record attemot. Go ham.

I ran that kind of mileage all the time and always go injured. Cut it down to 80 miles a week so I could train consistently, ended up running 9:27 that April. Good luck!

What is your e-mail I have some good workouts

start back with daily long sessions of aquajogging and spent time in the gym doing circuit training/core drills to build back your body strength.

Do this for 3-4 weeks then start steady runs and then take it slowly back to sessions etc until your back in peak racing condition.

So patience, determination and committment to get back to your previous best is now required. Prove to yourself and coaches that your serious about your running and make the sacrifices to get abck to the top man!

Good luck- it will be tough, hard and time consuming. May be boring but you will come through it.

Hey mate im in the same exact boat as you, got a few days left in the cast. I've the strongest I've ever been thank to just doing weight workouts the past 7 weeks haha. I'm just going to do my track workouts I had planned for the season on my bike and swimming. In the morning im going to slowly build up my mileage again until I can run the workouts. Good luck mate. screw the school record shoot higher than that and you'll be better. yes it is sad we can't do indoor. oh well

hey everyone thanks for the help and my emil is now atached to my name so if you can help me send a email tha ks everyone! and tl i totally understand your pain

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bump, i cant help you high mileage dude, but for the love of god will someone help him?

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