Thinking of Quitting Track Senior Year...

I hear you 100%.

I thought the same way at your age. I was 6'4, 155 and wanted to bulk up to score with the ladies.

What you will find in college is that bulking up isn't all that it is cracked up to be. If you keep running and put in hard effort your stamina will stay high.

Key word there is stamina.

Other bros are likely 2 pump chumps in college. They see spread legs and jizz in their pants.

You my friend have stamina and can pound that vag for a long time. This is a big deal. Word gets out how long you last and pound that vag. Ladies tell their friends, and they all want a piece of that.

Stick with it, stay thin and ignore what all the other bros are doing.

Once you are in your 20s and out of school having the body that you do will be even more of an advantage.

Stick it out with the coach. He likely means well and you'll look back later and appreciate things in a way you can't now.

This was the most insightful response yet, thank you Former Brah!

In all seriousness, What's holding me back more than anything is not me being a quitter, that's not it at all, it's that I have an injury once more that put me out last season which almost garuntees I won't achieve the times I'm hoping for. However, I think after reading all of your responses I'll stick it out for this last season, if not for anything than just to not feel like I've failed myself.

Also, to all who are wondering, I live in California but our Track season starts in Febuary. Because I need to take off some time to X train before my leg heals and then start back up easy again, I'm not going to worry about my early season performaces. Before this injury I was hoping on qualifying for Arcadia, but that dream flew out the window. Real bummer.

If you stop in the off-season, it is "retiring". If you stop during the season, it is "quitting". There is nothing wrong with the former. The latter is detestable.

Getting away from a bad situation that will damage your future prospects is not "quitting". The new meme is "I don't care if you ran in high school". Much more impressive if you run in college. You will be better off training by yourself this year and then joining your college team. Your HS team mates who stay and end up sucking and injured are chumps. If you get away from the bad coach, take matters into your own hands and run fast then you are the champ.

It sounds like you need the social validation of being on a team and not being seen as a "quitter" by other people, which means you don't have what it takes psychologically to become an elite athlete. So it really doesn't matter what you do, because you are not going to amount to much anyway.

Your two mile pretty .much sucks compared to your mile. Hit the gym, put on some muscle, keep the mileage mellow, and focus on the 800/1600. You at least have a shot at being the 430 miler that "everyone" was in HS.

CollegeBound_Chillz wrote:

Also, to all who are wondering, I live in California but our Track season starts in Febuary. Because I need to take off some time to X train before my leg heals and then start back up easy again, I'm not going to worry about my early season performaces. Before this injury I was hoping on qualifying for Arcadia, but that dream flew out the window. Real bummer.

Good luck.

Definitely be sure to let that injury heal.

If you'll be disappointed with not improving your times because of extended time off, just see how fast you can go with less than ideal training.

But also reinforce your friendships with your teammates. Get to know a little bit about the other event groups and your teammates in the long jump or the hurdles, etc. and cheer them on at meets, ask them about how their training is going at practice. Even if you don't become best friends off the track, I bet you'll be glad you got to know some of them.

As a high school coach, that is what I hope all of my athletes will do.

Respect for others, a sense of team, sportsmanship, the value of doing your best, and making friends: these are all things you will take with you, and there is no better place to learn those things than right now.

Also the teams that accomplish those things inevitably are successful in competition. We send about 8 or 9 scholarship athletes to college each year (between the two genders). A lot of that is because of the team culture we have spent years developing. I hope the athletes who graduate without an athletic scholarship still learned positive lessons on the track.

Dealing with a bad coach is a lesson as well. I promise you he won't be the last jerk you have to put up with in your life. I'm sorry you have to deal with that, but try to not let him get to you.

You worked hard during your HS to receive a full academic scholarship. Have fun your senior year. You deserve it. You're that age only once. If running becomes a chore and you don't enjoy it, take a break from it. You may come back to it later in life. Your times don't reflect you becoming a standout NCAA runner. A lot of this is pretty much waste of time. Ask people here. They won't admit it but I am sure they know in their heart it is.

If you aren't enjoying things then quit. You'll free up your afternoons and weekends. You can run when you feel like it, plan your own training, pick your races or time trials.

Appreciate the response man, I think I've decided that I'm going to do the best I can with what I have this year. If I focus on getting ready for my league meet at the end of the season and focus on that rather than the very first meet which our coach seems so focused on (he keeps telling the team that we only have 20 days left and we need to kill ourselves to get ready for our first meet) and I try to explain to him that it's not all about the first meet, but he doesnt want to hear it. He has the team doing a track workout literally Monday-Friday, no easy days...

CB Chillz

I'e encourage you to stick it out and see what becomes your season. With the mileage you've don't this past off season along with the good last couple of years of training your best races can still be had.

As far as your injury, take your time getting back into it. Know your limit and do a little less that you'd like. Just because you were not able to handle a full training load last XC season does not mean you may not experience success here this spring.

Enjoy the season, work as hard as your body will let you, contribute to the team in any way you can, the coach can get over himself. Do it for you and your any of your teammates that have invested there time in the program. "worth it" is based on the value you place on "it". You don't have to win state or get a scholarship for it to be worth it.

I'm sorry to those here ready this that find this note cheesy or sappy. Don't really care about nay-sayers.

To speak to your height & weight. Trust me, you'll pack on the pound soon enough. Your body will naturally fill out and some moderate weight training in college will likely make you look like a beast.

Thanks Coach, really appreciate the response. I'm going to do the best with what I have, whatever that may be. You have all been very helpful.

You can't redshirt in high school, moron.

Good to know, thanks buddy :)