Should I fake an injury to get out of conference?

Run the race and help your team you puss

ergewgs wrote:

Run the race and help your team you puss

ergewgs wrote:

Run the race and help your team you puss

My PR is 10s slower than what got 8th place last year. I seriously doubt I'd be able to "help my team" by getting 20th.

coach probably just wants to make sure you burn a season of eligibility so you don't have the ability to come back for an extra year and waste his time

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coach probably just wants to make sure you burn a season of eligibility so you don't have the ability to come back for an extra year and waste his time

+1

Why not talk to your dr. and/or PT person and get their thoughts? If they think you're ready to give it a try, do the race, but keep it conservative. If they tell you it's too soon, ask them to talk to your coach who's more likely to listen to them than to you (not because you're wrong, just because there's something about a professional opinion...).

looking out forme wrote:

I'm in the pool with a stress fracture right now and am supposed to return to running the week of conference. My coach told me he plans on running me in the 3000m at conference if I come back that week.

I would consider talking to my coach about it and asking him why he'd run you within a week of coming back. He may assume that you really want to compete, and therefore thinks he doing YOU a favor. A little communication never hurts, and might clear up some misunderstandings.

Don't fake anything though. That sh*t will haunt you the rest of your life.

I was in a similar situation, but I wanted to run and did. I end up regretting it as it did waste a season of my eligibility and re-injured myself.

From my experience, you will not run well at all. I was in the pool for 5 weeks with a foot injury(most likely a stress reaction/fracture) and plantar fasciitis. I ended up getting out of the pool and two weeks later at conference ran the mile and ended up screwing up my foot again and my plantar fasciitis flared up. I had to take the rest of the spring off and did not ran until June of that year.

If you are not man enough to talk to your coach about it, then I would say fake the injury. But I think that your best option is to go to your coach and say that you are not in shape and that you are worried that you will re-injure yourself by running the 3k at conference. I would also point out that your PR would not score and that you are not in PR shape (which most likely is the case if you have been in the pool for weeks). By approaching your coach you own up to your actions and show respect to your coach and hopefully they will reciprocate the respect and not make you run.

this may hurt a little wrote:

looking out forme wrote:

I'm in the pool with a stress fracture right now and am supposed to return to running the week of conference. My coach told me he plans on running me in the 3000m at conference if I come back that week.

I would consider talking to my coach about it and asking him why he'd run you within a week of coming back. He may assume that you really want to compete, and therefore thinks he doing YOU a favor. A little communication never hurts, and might clear up some misunderstandings.

Don't fake anything though. That sh*t will haunt you the rest of your life.

This^. Talk to your coach. Be truthful.

Run the race