Most annoying track coach habits?

When coaches act like they are the ultimate authority on what you are capable of. I was told by my first college middle distance coach "you do not have the talent to run the 800 in 2:17" (I transferred and have already run under 2:10).

Eddie Money wrote:

Using wrong starting commands when practicing block starts: "On You Marks". NOT "Runners take/to your marks"

Yeah. "On your marks" is correct, of course, but an amazing number of coaches (and some starters!) say something else.

HS girl wrote:

He doesn't actually shower with us, but he watches us shower through some hole in the wall. You'll walk by this quarter-sized hole, and there's his eyeball peeking through it. I'm guessing we're all stars on pornhub at this point and don't even know it.

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saying "warm down"

HS girl wrote:

He doesn't actually shower with us, but he watches us shower through some hole in the wall. You'll walk by this quarter-sized hole, and there's his eyeball peeking through it. I'm guessing we're all stars on pornhub at this point and don't even know it.

Sarah I know that's is you! I told you not to tell anyone about our secret team shower sessions! That's it, I'm shutting off the water heater. It's a cold water shower for you tomorrow!

CoachRichardson wrote:

HS girl wrote:

He doesn't actually shower with us, but he watches us shower through some hole in the wall. You'll walk by this quarter-sized hole, and there's his eyeball peeking through it. I'm guessing we're all stars on pornhub at this point and don't even know it.

Sarah I know that's is you! I told you not to tell anyone about our secret team shower sessions! That's it, I'm shutting off the water heater. It's a cold water shower for you tomorrow!

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"Striders"

Hahaha man exactly the same. For an 800 at like 350m into it, my head track coach in hs would windmill his arm and go nuts and yell "YAA GOTTTA GOO! YAA GOTTTA GOO!"

And i'd think "dude it's too early wtf". But then I realized that to run a good 800m you need to start making moves and pushing it at 450m, and then blast it with all you have left at 625m.

Good times.

Told us every practice and twice on meet days that he got a 36 on the ACT. Forced us to ask him questions.

HS girl wrote:

He doesn't actually shower with us, but he watches us shower through some hole in the wall. You'll walk by this quarter-sized hole, and there's his eyeball peeking through it. I'm guessing we're all stars on pornhub at this point and don't even know it.

This is seriously creepy, you should call the police.

College Girl wrote:

Too many prostrate exams. We've tried to explain to him that girls don't even have a prostrate, but he keeps giving us exams.

I really hope this is a troll post, but if it's not, you should report it to the police.

My college coach had the most annoying little habit of grabbing us by our pussies. Even the guys.

My coach had a pace chart that he carried everywhere. Even for extremely easy times to figure out that we all already knew, he had to take the time to look at his pace chart before every workout to tell us to run 70s or 75s or 80s for 400s. Don't think the dude knew simple math

Pee Sack wrote:

As a runner, what would be some of the most annoying/weird things your coaches would do.

Mine would be making workouts too complicated. "Today you're going to run 4x3x380'a at around mile pace effort, cutting down each rep by half a second, with all reps beginning at 2:45." Uhhhh coach my brain hurts from thinking about this workouts.

not allowing us to run unattached at the home meet

not kicking off guys that aren't motivated / not even close to being worth their scholarships

-my HS coach used to stand and twirl my hair in my pony tail when trying to give us serious talks right before our races...drove me nuts and made it hard to take him seriously. He also definitely made workouts overly complicated, although it was at least for a good reason as they were scientifically based.

-assistant coach in college always seeded the people she liked with better times in meets ahead of the people she didn't like even when her disliked people were faster. She also would ignore anyone she disliked completely even in small group conversations. Who she liked and disliked was not based off of anything anyone actually did.

-Coaches yelling at kids to "lengthen their strides" at the end of the race. Saying it that way generally causes kids to overstride and slow down. Much better to encourage good form such as knees up, drive your arms which will in-turn improve their stride length.

-Coach stands there talking not paying attention to people on our team competing at meets. One coach we had even put in head phones and watched a movie after this throwers were done instead of helping other coaches or cheering on the team.

-Lazy head coaches that are only in the profession for themselves are also super annoying. I worked as a GA in the athletic department at one school where all the assistants quit after one season with a new head coach b/c they couldn't stand to work for someone so lazy and self-centered. He then went on and fired the only remaining assistant who did all his work for him b/c he felt threatened that she was achieving more success than him. This assistant was replaced by a guy who was less qualified for the job, but easy for him to control.

Most annoying thing was having us peak at 20 miles per week (800/1600 group) in February, for outdoor track, and then "taper" for the next 3 months. Typical week was one or two garbage 3 mile runs, maybe a track workout if we were lucky, and 2-3 days of 90 minute plyometric sessions. One day we spent the entire practice doing backwards crab walks up and down a hill.

The week of sectionals he walked up to me and said "I keep seeing you guys going for runs after practice, I don't think you've been taking your training seriously. Plus you missed 3 practices for college visits, so I'm not letting you run at sectionals."

YES I'M STILL BITTER YOU P.O.S.

Cssds wrote:

My coach had a pace chart that he carried everywhere. Even for extremely easy times to figure out that we all already knew, he had to take the time to look at his pace chart before every workout to tell us to run 70s or 75s or 80s for 400s. Don't think the dude knew simple math

God this is annoying

Urinating on the track....during a meet.