For any division college runners, when you go out on an easy run or a run that is not a workout, is a coach present. When I say present, I mean either alongside, at a point where you meet, being watched around a loop, etc. Or do you just go out as a group and return.
Out of school, but our coach ran every run w us. Hated that fact as it made it hard to bond as teammates when the coach was with us on all runs
My coach (Div 1) used to warm-up with us and oftentimes go for runs with us. The only thing he didn't do was workouts because he was paying attention to us. He was pretty young though (late 20's or early 30's) and ran 2:22 or 2:20 Marathon.
Division III. My coach runs with us all the time. He's over 50 years old and he's a great athlete. He's such a funny and lovable person that it doesn't hinder our experience together as a team. It's great having him along. I couldn't ask for a better coaching environment.
Never. No need for him to babysit us. We're in college.
Our coach was present for every workout. He was never present for any easy days or longer mileage days.
For intervals on the track, he was obviously there, but for any long off-track repeats, fartleks, tempos, he would ride his bike with us.
I thought this was a good mix. He was present for every bit of our running 3x per week this way when we could maybe use some coaching, but left us alone for the other 4 days per week when we were doing runs at a pace where we could talk.
I would not have liked it if he was along for our easy days and long days, we needed time to talk about parties and hooking up with chicks without feeling like our coach was either going to get angry with us or awkwardly ignore our conversation.
Ultimately we were friendly with our coach, but a coach shouldn't be part of the team, they should be part friend, part mentor to the entire team, both men and women, they shouldn't know about you having a one night stand with one of the girls from the xc team.
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