What is the most abusive thing a hs coach ever said to you?

"My grandmother could run faster than that, and she's dead."

"Suck it up, Brandon" when I peeled off a workout to throw up. Not angry, just saying 'when you're done throwing up get your ass back on pace'.

It had been a really rough week for me, like the worst week of my life, so I was furious at the time.

"Stop talking now, and get running."

In a very bad workout, "The girls run faster than you". He said this in front of most of the team. I was coming off an injury(torn meniscus), worked full time and just had a killer night shift. I was carrying 12 mostly tough units. My brother had recently put a shotgun in his mouth and ended his life, two weeks had not yet passed.

What I am saying, coach, don't be that guy.

My first name is Brandon wrote:

"Suck it up, Brandon" when I peeled off a workout to throw up. Not angry, just saying 'when you're done throwing up get your ass back on pace'.

It had been a really rough week for me, like the worst week of my life, so I was furious at the time.

Sounds like you needed a tampon too

You're tempted to say stuff when they LET YOU DOWN? They're still kids even at 16. They realize they let the team down and our job is to improve character traits and flaws. I'm glad you did realize that positivity matters. That being said I don't think I ever flew off the handle. The worst I ever said was what the hell were you thinking about while you were running jogging. Fortunately my wife has taught me to be less sarcastic as sarcasm could be worse than flying off the handle.

You're a better man than me acknowledging these feelings so early in your tenure.

hehateme wrote:

My first name is Brandon wrote:

"Suck it up, Brandon" when I peeled off a workout to throw up. Not angry, just saying 'when you're done throwing up get your ass back on pace'.

It had been a really rough week for me, like the worst week of my life, so I was furious at the time.

Sounds like you needed a tampon too

Ha, I was 14, so yeah. Also really not familiar with failed/bad workouts up to that point. Looking back it's kind of weird how I would care so much about them yet only run 20 miles a week during the summer. I'm lucky I have had great coaches since 7th grade because damn was I stupid about running until about 11th grade. The stupidity wasn't necessarily hardheadedness, but more ignorance about the priorities of running.

I like to think I was mature for my age my whole life, yet I still would tell at my junior high/high school self for a lot of stuff.

Durin a race our coach yelled ... "You suck" to me

I then yelled "f$@& you" back to him. Very loudly. Never heard about it after. This was HS.

Triathleteben, that's the best response you could have given him. He probably learned more from that than anything else.

"Just relax..." 😉

My coach was not one for complements. He would only give a few every season. Last dual meet my senior year, and a pretty competitive meet for the conference title. I had been in a bit of a plateau. Ran a good, competitive race.

"Wow, you ran like you actually have a penis today!"

One of the best complements I have ever gotten. I was elated. You can say some pretty awful things and still have kids happy if you hold your composure correctly. And if your kids aren't sensitive b*tches.

jack ulmer was the track coach at hazard county high

a miserable, cigar chomping sob

flashed his stop watch like a switch blade and had a mouth like a trucker

his methods, however, are proven

led us to state titles in '76 & '77

he used to get in my ass on a daily basis

but the maddest ive ever seen jack ulmer was when he caught me

sneaking around the girls locker-room last week

"laz

throw back wrote:

My coach was not one for complements. He would only give a few every season. Last dual meet my senior year, and a pretty competitive meet for the conference title. I had been in a bit of a plateau. Ran a good, competitive race.

"Wow, you ran like you actually have a penis today!"

One of the best complements I have ever gotten. I was elated. You can say some pretty awful things and still have kids happy if you hold your composure correctly. And if your kids aren't sensitive b*tches.

cause it's all about your dick isn't it?

Bend over and pick up the soap

Saying to the team after a particularly brutal race, which I underperformed in:

"You don't want to be one the Ben brothers: would've Ben, could've Ben, should've Ben."

My name is Ben.

Triathletebenm wrote:

Durin a race our coach yelled ... "You suck" to me

I then yelled "f$@& you" back to him. Very loudly. Never heard about it after. This was HS.

Perfect, except you should've added "C0cksucker" at the end.

"Pull your head out of your vagina and run like a man!" during a conference meet 1600.

It worked. Pissed me off. Ran a 4:24 and won.

The perfect line:

"Don't worry everyone's a winner"

That's PC enough and will coax the slackers to actually try.

Not to me but

Teammate runs 10:30 to win season opening tri meet 3200

Holds up a #1 finger crossing the line.

Coach "act like you've been there before" doesn't say anything else, just walks past and talks to the other kids in the race.