My Coach to me: "Work as hard as you like, you just don't have good genetics."

When he told you that you just don;t have good genetics and didn't matter how hard you tried.

I would have looked him straight in the eye and said "yeah, I guess the only left for me to do is to coach." and then walked away and fired his ass as your coach.

Well he's not good the right genetics to be a coach.

If he applied that to all his runners then none of them would even bother as are any of them going to set a WR

Most people do not come even close to what they genetically achieve. As for these muppets going on about reverse psychology - garbage. The last thing any runner need is negative comments after running a pb.

Would Charlie Spedding have eve won Olympic Bronze in the marathon if he had sat down and checked everyone's pb over 10,000m and pondered over his genetic potential.

I have really bad genes, too, man.

suxs 4 us. I had to take time off of running and started to lift weights really high weights, I started to run again and it paid off and im ready to run a new personal record.

nice comment coach wrote:

I've been training for about a year with a coach. He's a nice fellow, but told me after a track meet the week that I'm just "not a dude with a good genetics". I had just had a huge PB, and he did not even congratulate me. The entire race I had run really strong, even carrying almost half of the luggage at one point in the run. Literally wheeling it along, dodging in and out trying to get through, and he ignored almost every moment of it, just looking throught the window as if I wasn't even running. He just sat there at the Starbucks, nodding his head. I passed the 3rd place guy at one point even, coming very close to placing.

What kind of comment is that?

hey, have you EVEN been to a starbuxs?

I think I would too!!!!

but you are good and probably will set a new personal record soon. I think I will!

this is worded so poorly, carrying luggage? what? and what window did he watch through exactly... is this metaphoric or something wtf is going on lol, and btw dont listen to him some people have genetics that favor improvement but not being amazing right from the start, maybe you need to train a different way

Learn the Language wrote:

nice comment coach wrote:Literally wheeling it along...

So are you a wheelchair athlete? If not, you obviously don't know the meaning of "literally"...Maybe it's just not in your genetics.

It's called speaking figuratively. I know that it is a difficult concept, but even the word 'literally' can be used figuratively.

figurative > literal

nice comment coach wrote:

I've been training for about a year with a coach. He's a nice fellow, but told me after a track meet the week that I'm just "not a dude with a good genetics". I had just had a huge PB, and he did not even congratulate me. The entire race I had run really strong, even carrying almost half of the luggage at one point in the run. Literally wheeling it along, dodging in and out trying to get through, and he ignored almost every moment of it, just looking throught the window as if I wasn't even running. He just sat there at the Starbucks, nodding his head. I passed the 3rd place guy at one point even, coming very close to placing.

What kind of comment is that?

good genetics for running? do you realize how little running matters? it's one of the most idiotic endeavors of all time, although I like it as well. Maybe you have good genetics for other things, like something useful for instance...

I ran 9:58 in the 2 mile off sh*t coaching and 25 MPW and I'm still not that talented!!! Suck it losers!! XDDDDD

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I ran 9:58 in the 2 mile off sh*t coaching and 25 MPW and I'm still not that talented!!! Suck it losers!! XDDDDD

Chris Chattaway ran 13:51 off 25 miles per week, so I suppose you really aren't that talented.

Sounds like you need a new coach. My freshman year of HS I was fighting for the #7 spot (at that point took about 19:15), and after I got it on the ride home he called me up to him on the bus and he said something similar, but in a much different way. I remember him saying, "I'm not gonna lie to you, you're not the best athlete out here by a long shot, but if you put in the work I think you might have a chance to do something here."

That is the way a coach should handle it in my opinion, let them know that they're not the next Jim Ryun, but at the same time motivate them to see what they can squeeze out.

Now that's my kind of track, you can still coach from the Starbucks!!!

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fred wrote:

Run 120 a week for a year, and then we'll talk about it.

^^^^^^^ This is a good plan. You never know how good you are into you put in the miles.

That sounds like something a LAZY coach would say.

Jeeze he's certainly right to say that to you....probably trying to get you off the team so you go back to 7th grade English class and learn how to properly use metaphors so that they actually make sense. I mean WTF did I just read....Stop running and go back to English and do the world a big favor please.

OP:I'm totally with you man. One time when I was racing in fifth grade at our sports day I was made to felt that my genes weren't quite the chalk on the board you'd imagine them to be. I started out fast but eventually my steering wheel locked out and all my friends were just laughing. Humiliating. Nevertheless I kept slugging through and my friends have delegated the confusion. Keep your head on straight!

nice comment coach wrote:

I've been training for about a year with a coach. He's a nice fellow, but told me after a track meet the week that I'm just "not a dude with a good genetics". I had just had a huge PB, and he did not even congratulate me. The entire race I had run really strong, even carrying almost half of the luggage at one point in the run. Literally wheeling it along, dodging in and out trying to get through, and he ignored almost every moment of it, just looking throught the window as if I wasn't even running. He just sat there at the Starbucks, nodding his head. I passed the 3rd place guy at one point even, coming very close to placing.

What kind of comment is that?

0/10 upfront wrote:

Sounds like he is trying to get you to rise to your potential by challenging/goating you.

It's goading by the way...NOT "goating"

Not very helpful, that is for sure. The role of the coach is to help an athlete reach his highest potential. This could be a 7:00 mile or a 3:55. If your coach is just writing you off, I'd suggest simply getting a new coach.

HS coaches, the most destructive element to distance runners in America. Your gonna hear his cheap advise your whole life, all the time. The greatest men ever to walk this planet in all fields of endeavor, got this every move they made. Think use your head and go after your passions. Outwork everyone. Good luck and take care of you and yours.