In real life or on letsrun, dealing with mileage, speedwork, rest, injuries and anything else running related?
In real life or on letsrun, dealing with mileage, speedwork, rest, injuries and anything else running related?
That you don't have to run >100mpw to be seriously successful.
"It's better to be overtrained than undertrained"
telling a mid-distance guy to go out hard in a xc race
"You looked great in that half. You should try a full marathon!"
A year later I ran a marathon, at age 34, and I haven't really run ever since. I've been fighting injuries ever since. And I was 100% healthy for 12 years prior.
That 4 days straight of speed workouts, week after week, was "good training."
Recommending the Toronto Waterfront Marathon as the top marathon to run in Canada. What a colossal disappointment.
That stretching doesn't prevent soft-tissue injuries.
that anything more than 15 mpw is asking yourself to get injured
"Pace yourself!"
WTF does that even mean?
Did you cramp?
See a physiotherapist.
Actually the lack of advice was the was the worst.
That I should go to WKU and run for now-fired Michelle Scott!
KYgirl with a swirl wrote:
That I should go to WKU and run for now-fired Michelle Scott!
If you're going to any school with a direction in the name (besides Northwestern) you've made a few other mistakes along the way as well.
1971: three years into running.
"Stop running. You'll destroy your knees."
Still running......
ehblah wrote:
If you're going to any school with a direction in the name (besides Northwestern) you've made a few other mistakes along the way as well.
Northeastern?
that you have to run >100mpw to be any good.
Girl Power! wrote:
"Pace yourself!"
WTF does that even mean?
It means that you shouldn't run a PR mile in the first mile of a 5K XC race. I think this is great advice, particularly for high schoolers who tend to go crazy at the beginning of the race and are plodding by the end.
I think the worst advice I've been told has been the opposite of "pace yourself;" as a high schooler running just under 11:00 for the 3200 my coach told me I had to "get out there with those girls" when they were going through the 200 in sub-30 and the 400 in sub-1:10 because if I "let them get away" I'd never ever catch them. They were 13:00ish 3200 runners.
My Doc - "It's OK to run your marathon with a bad case of PF if you can stand the pain."