look at this week my coach laid out to "wind down" towards districts

thats the stupidest thing i have ever seen.

that man should be fired

just dont run them hard.

or skip practice.

good luck

Classic taper - high intensity and lower volume. I assume you've been running 150 mpw with 5 or so workouts. This makes perfect sense.

Just take it easy when you need to. No need getting to championship season tired.

Stop being a pansy. Just do a recovery run each night.

Actually doesn't sound THAT terrible.

If I gave someone this plan, which is essentially the same thing, I think they would go into the race feeling pretty good:

Monday: 6 x 800 with 2:30 recovery starting at 20 seconds slower than race pace and finishing about 5 seconds faster

Tuesday: distance run with pickups

Wednesday: longer distance day / hills

Thursday: duel meet

Friday: shorter, brisk run

I don't see the point of the local 5K, but I think you are just getting psyched out by seeing "tempo" "track workout" "fartlek" and "long run". None of these have to be gut-busting efforts. Unless your coach is the guy that would make you do burpees for not hitting splits on a fartlek, you have much more control over how fresh and recovered you feel than you realize.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Actually doesn't sound THAT terrible.

If I gave someone this plan, which is essentially the same thing, I think they would go into the race feeling pretty good:

Monday: 6 x 800 with 2:30 recovery starting at 20 seconds slower than race pace and finishing about 5 seconds faster

Tuesday: distance run with pickups

Wednesday: longer distance day / hills

Thursday: duel meet

Friday: shorter, brisk run

I don't see the point of the local 5K, but I think you are just getting psyched out by seeing "tempo" "track workout" "fartlek" and "long run". None of these have to be gut-busting efforts. Unless your coach is the guy that would make you do burpees for not hitting splits on a fartlek, you have much more control over how fresh and recovered you feel than you realize.

This is about right. Just take the fartlek as you need to.

You get Sunday off and no doubles. Sounds fine to me. Maybe you're the 6th guy and just being a pu$$.

Let me guess- Your "coach" isn't a runner.

joey bonzo wrote:

Monday: track workout

Tuesday: fartlek run

Wednesday: long run / hills

Thursday: "practice" 5k

Friday: tempo run

Saturday: wants us to sign up for a local 5k

coming form the same man who said 70 mile weeks over the summer would cause me to burn out

This looks pretty similar to a typical HS schedule with one dual meet and one invitational per week. Apart from the races, which you can certainly hold back in if you're not feeling it, you're only going anaerobic once. Unless you have a history of injury, you should be fine.

Um, yea..you don't do 6 workouts in a row..sorry but you need slow recovery runs and I would never let my guys race too close to their main race..I do it 3 weeks out..maybe 2..

but then again..how long until the district meet?? Maybe this would be hell week..he may completely back you off after this week..

and if you run 70 miles a week all summer, you risk injury and would be too tired for a season..but if you gradually work into it by August it is fine..sounds like a dumb coach like most in high school..

If you like how your coach operates, keep going with him and believe he knows best

OR

If you don't like him, get a new coach / coach yourself.

But coming onto this website to slate him is somewhere between disrespectful and spineless.

There is no sense doing a tempo run the night before a race

The rest is ok although that depends what a practise 5km is

joey bonzo wrote:

Monday: track workout

Tuesday: fartlek run

Wednesday: long run / hills

Thursday: "practice" 5k

Friday: tempo run

Saturday: wants us to sign up for a local 5k

coming form the same man who said 70 mile weeks over the summer would cause me to burn out

Hello Joey,

Due to your incessant whining about me "restricting your mileage" that you have given me all season I decided to give you a more difficult schedule for just this week to see if you were actually tougher than I thought.

Knowing your mental and social problems I knew that you would actually believe your team-mates when they told you the schedule that you "guys" were suppossed to do, even though almost all of them were snickering behind your back as they gave it to you. Unsurprisingly, I come on here to find you once again finding another excuse to undermine me . If you think that we need to wind down 7 weeks before Districts than you are perhaps even dumber than I thought before, which I didn't believe was possible until I saw this post.

Because of this, and also due to your whiny and annoying complaints, screeching high girly voice, your inability to break 40 minutes for the 5k, and your constant proclamations that you can outkick your 110-year old Great-Grandma in a mile and that you only have to do 70 miles a week to do it, I have decided to drop you from the team. It doesn't help that since you joined the team we dropped from 80 people to 6 people, which I should inform you went from a record number of Cross-Country participants and almost 30 above the average number of runners to a record low number of participants by 34 participants.

Well, I would say sorry and that this was an incredibly difficult decision, but this by far the easiest decision I have ever made in my life and I can't believe I didn't make it sooner. I will also be reccomending you to a mental hospital so that you are not a danger to the team, your school, or your family.

Your coach,

Josh Smith.

Trolly McUnderbridge wrote:

Classic taper - high intensity and lower volume. I assume you've been running 150 mpw with 5 or so workouts. This makes perfect sense.

One of the top 10 LR posts ever. Well done sir.

Could you imagine if this were real?

What is your point???

Coach Langhorne

bro this is letsrun. this is as real as it gets.

Coach Langhorne wrote:

What is your point???

Coach Langhorne

Just kidding...

Go Devils!