Stupid front page coaching article

I agree. While he made several good points he seemed very close minded. I agree with him that many young coaches do look ask stupid questions and look for secret recipes....but there are ways to improve training by looking further into it. And many of the most successful coaches in the world use tools that he attempted to discredit. I believe technology and further research into training is a large reason why runners are getting faster at all levels.

not a bs liberal artist wrote:

Did anybody read the "A piece of string..." coaching article? Why do the BroJos feel the need to put that BS on the front page?

Obviously there's no magical shortcut, or everybody would be doing it and then we'd be back to square one vying for a competitive advantage.

Obviously to improve you need to work hard.

While these things are obvious to you, they are not as obvious to many 'runners'. It seems like every high school runner I see is looking for the shortcut to success. It's not 'how many miles can I run?' but rather 'What's the minimum mileage I can run?'.

Emphasizing what, to you, is obvious, may not be as obvious to others. I think plenty of runners would benefit from truly accepting the basic truth (hard work = success) instead of hemming and hawing their way through some twisted notion in their head that you can improve just as well by running less.

There's nothing wrong with emphasizing the obvious.

And if you're just trolling, then remember that trolling is infinitely worse than any article you have read. Trolling is the lowest form of 'communication' possible. Anyone who thinks it's funny or clever to rile people up by being purposely stupid is, well, as dumb as the people they troll.

no, I'm legitimately not trolling.

Maybe I take the "secret is there is no secret"/"miles of trials, trials of miles" thing for granted, but this article still seems like BS. He discredits coaches asking very legitimate questions.

I guess there must be a lot of really bad coaches out there who don't realize that the most important part of running is to get out there and run (at least judging by how little many HS programs actually train), but any coach who's not worthless certainly realizes this.