Can we please stop saying "Ask your coach!!!" in every training thread?

improving the boards wrote:

Can we please stop saying "Ask your coach!!!" in every training thread?

Ask your coach.

ask your coach

askurcoach wrote:

ask your coach

I'm his coach and I support this message.

see how much it adds?

You really need to ask your coach.

There is a difference between discussing training philosophies and telling someone how to train with inadequate information and/or inadequate knowledge.

If you're Maggie Vessey, you should not listen to your coach.

Instead, you should listen to some old-fart hobby jogger who reads Joggers World, is trying to break 4 hours in his next marathon the Lydiard Way, and is hoping to get into Boston as a Charity Runner because he doesn't have the ability to earn a real slot.

That adds something to the discussion, doesn't it?

Those of us who are coaches would not think of intervening in another coach's training. Or you can chose the "other guys" in a Hertz ad.

What does your coach think of you starting this thread?

When it comes to matters this important and this critical in determining the outcome of such crucial matters to the extent that which your importance is clearly understated. Its best to

Ask your coach

/thread

People say to trust your coach because they think trusting the training is more important than most training methods as a whole.

So just ask your coach.

ask your coach plz

Your coach is a Nazi Zionist.

What is this "coach" everybody is referring to?

Talk to your coach and see what he/she thinks.

improving the boards wrote:

Letsrun was created for a reason. I assume I'm not the only person on here who is actually interested in training philosophies and not just bashing triathletes and asking about Adam Goucher being update. Yes, one should listen to his/her coach when the coach knows what's right. No one is dropping a knowledge-bomb by suggesting it anymore. What "you" are too annoying to consider is that:

A) Not everyone has a coach who know what is right or who even has a training philosophy.

B) Not everyone has a coach.

C) Coaches are not infallible and can improve from the knowledge of others. Inquisitive athletes are a good way to go about enacting that change.

If you don't want to learn and contribute to the discussion in training threads, don't click them.

GET a F***ING coach if you don't no what you are doing. That is why so many white boys times are so F***ing slow.

I think A should have been B....you went specific before being broad, never a good thing - you should ask your coach about it, he'll set you straight.

yes, just ask me if you have questions

if you're a high school freshman and your coach is an algebra teacher that just gives a small 5-minute talk after school until the students are sent off to run in different directions...

then yeah, trying to read running articles and asking questions on a message board might be much better.

the best coach wrote:

yes, just ask me if you have questions

If you don't like what this guy says, just come ask me. Then get off your ass and away from the computer and go run.

If you don't like what you here ask your coach.