8 to 10 weeks to get in 14:40 shape. (LOG)

If you actually went from 16:00 to 14:44 in 8-10 weeks and the coach won't let you on the team then he's a total idiot. Keep training and run on the local road scene. Prove to the coach that he is a total moron and by the time you're a senior you'll be faster than everyone on his team. When he asks you to join the team in the future tell him to go eff himself.

I assume this is CC, so you want to go from 1624 to 1440 in ten weeks.

Go ahead, reserve your spot at the local hospital. Then you can run

4 x 1000 with 1:30 rests everyday for the next ten weeks and you are sure to

make the hospital in the ambulance!

Seriously, Arthur Lydiard would be ashamed of me if I did not give a different answer.

ImprobabIeDreamer wrote:

TannerD22 wrote:

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I tried but fell short. I went out running 72s but by lap 8 I couldn't hold it anymore and dropped down to 74's. I tried to make up for it with my kick but still ran a 14:44. I was hoping the coach would give me the benefit of the doubt but he didn't. Beer and pizza for me now.

That's really big improvement, man! There's nothing to be ashamed of there, even though I don't really understand how the splits worked out to 14:44 for 5k. Enjoy a break and keep at it (so long as you still enjoy the sport, don't let this stop you).

Annnnnd now for everyone who said I was wrong stating that most Power 5 school coaches will not take a walk on, even if they do this well:

Told you so.

Is it possible you intended to type "15:44"? This is where 15:25 guys usually end up when they go out at 15:00 pace ;-)

Pennoyer's Shoe Co. wrote:

Annnnnd now for everyone who said I was wrong stating that most Power 5 school coaches will not take a walk on, even if they do this well:

Told you so.

Wrong. Every team in the NCAA will take a walk on if the walk on fits into a hole in the squad (ie they need a high jumper), can immediately score points that year, and it is a year that the roster happens to not be full. For the top schools, this only all lines up occasionally, but no school is absolutely not going to allow walk-ons as a hard rule.

Troll Catcher wrote:

OP = ImprobableDreamer

Troll = InprobableDreamer

Or both could be trolls.

They were both trolls. It's all fiction and ridiculous. It would have been more believable if he had to pass a year of college in 8-10 weeks and get straight A's to get admitted to the college. Then he wrote back and said how he did it, wrote all the tests, but got a B in one class so the school wouldn't accept him. Somebody on here would believe that bs.

It might be fun to write that I ran the following times:

400 in 52.9

800 in 1:57.5

1600 in 4:17.8

Then I would ask if I should switch to the 5K or the 10K in college.

What would be your answer?

That's a tough call. I know about someone who ran 52 for 400m and ran the steeplechase at the Olympics in 8:22. He never made the finals though even after running at the Olympics twice. I think it all depends on what you want to do. I've had various experiences and my opinions on running has gone all over the place over the years. In my case I believe even if someone could have told me my marathon time in the future would have been 2:14 I probably would have hung up my shoes. One is because I wouldn't have been top 10 which to me means being in "nowhere land" between hobby joggers and elites who can kick your butt. I also would have been worried all the time about getting injured (in a professional career). I had one experience years ago that made me convinced I was all wrong about stopping completely for 10 years thinking if I'm not going to be competitive, I'm not going to do it at all. I ran some 200's and felt like I had a high on the track. I really had fun doing it. Had it not been for the fact I mismanaged my training, nutrition and sleep, I would have kept running at that point just for the fun of it. In the end I realized if I had to do everything all over again (and manage my sleep, nutrition and training correctly) I would have done the following: do everything in a gradual manner from age 12 to 18, never go over 35 miles a week and never race anything over 5K, race only once every two weeks, run 2 or 3 years with a track club just to know how to train then run alone and train for the 800m even if I was better at the 3K, and keep my easy runs real easy. If I would have been a 2:01 eight hundred meter runner on 20 to 35 miles a week with no chance at the Olympics then at least I would have had the pleasure of training for fun and knowing it's all I want to do (no be obsessed about it by running twice a day but still being fit enough to easily beat casual Sunday joggers by a mile).

I congratulate the original poster who ran 14:44. Doing your best is the only thing you could do. I could run 400m in 60 seconds at the age of 14 and ended up quitting completely at age 16. Now I'm just experimenting to find out how to get fit again.

good job with that PB.

if you are a freshman, i wouldn't give up and still pursue the goal of earning the spot. see how you do track season and if the coach still says no, then transfer out to a school that wants you (stay if the school is really good academically). you never know what can happen in the future.

i know someone that earned a spot at a low tier d1 (well starting to rise). he earned the spot in his senior year of college (athletically he has 2 years left). he worked hard enough to prove to the coach that he can contribute to the team even though he got rejected a couple of times.

your hard work will pay off.

I told all of you idiots it was possible, 4 seconds off isn't much. Congrats OP.

OP tell us more about your recent training. many people will have doubts that you improved that much and the coach didnt see the potential.

TannerD22 wrote:

I told all of you idiots it was possible, 4 seconds off isn't much. Congrats OP.

Or maybe you're just getting trolled and are too stupid to realize it... Idiot

Wish this wasn't a troll thread.

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