Dumbest thing your coach or teammate has said

I'd just placed 5th in the Massachusetts indoor state meet class B, 1000 yard run in 1975.

My coach, a former Olympian and 2nd placer in the Boston Marathon, said to me, "F--- You", because I did not win the race.

I took it OK, I realized he was a little whacked out in pursuit of a state title. We'd placed in several other events, won the 50, 2nd in the 2-mile, a few others. He figured if I won, we had a crack at it. I was a full 4 seconds behind the leader as I ran my 2nd best time, .7 off my best.

Lee Calhoun

I once had a teammate say,

"The state can find the optimal price of goods and/or services as well as a market can"

Needless to say we gave him crap about that for years.

Ovcrunner wrote:

Nothing they've said, but the dumbest thing from my team is I've had a team mate who has crapped themselves twice during cross country once during indoor and twice during outdoor. I just don't see how that happens.

Yes, it is definitely a lack of intelligence that causes this.

Fcvbnncchbbb wrote:

Pop, your gal lost. Get over it and move on please. Don't clutter this amusing thread with your angsty high school garbage.

Can't take a joke?

Speedforce wrote:

"Swishing gatorade around in your mouth gives you 90% of benefits of drinking it"

Actually, your coach may have been right:

Dumbest teammate I ever had once told me the best way to help poor people is to cut taxes for the rich so that they can donate more to charity. Same guy said sunsets are better the farther west you go. He was in the "football frat" at my school and trades commodities now.

Coming off a 2 yr injury, I tell my coach I would like to have an easy day after workouts to recover, because my legs were really tired/ I'm out of shape/my injury isn't fully healed (and its normal to have an easy day after a workout). Coach response: We need to go hard everyday, because you never know what the next day will bring (Like is that a joke, its like do you want me to get even more hurt).

-THIS ONE IS EVEN BETTER: I had to take 2 wks off because the injury got really aggravated (i wonder why?). After those two weeks of no running, I was seeded to run my first indoor race in 2 yrs in the fastest 3k heat ( 5 secs off my pr). Like who makes a person race after two weeks of not running and seed them close to their pr that they ran 2 yrs ago, and that person knows you are so out of shape its insane. I talked to my coach about it, and my coach said oh just run it, it doesn't matter, and that oh I just didn't want you to run slow (and promised I wouldn't get dead last). In case you're wonder 2nd last lapped me, so I was beyond dead last, and I tried really hard. My coach did this to me 3 times and its so frustrating to be continuously put in fast heats for no reason. I am so happy that I have moved on; I can't take the stupidity.

Fcvbnncchbbb wrote:

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

Who then voted for Trump, because it was the logical choice.

Pop, your gal lost. Get over it and move on please. Don't clutter this amusing thread with your angsty high school garbage.

Bro, the joke was RIGHT THERE. It was impossible to let it go.

Big Red wrote:

I'd just placed 5th in the Massachusetts indoor state meet class B, 1000 yard run in 1975.

My coach, a former Olympian and 2nd placer in the Boston Marathon, said to me, "F--- You", because I did not win the race.

I took it OK, I realized he was a little whacked out in pursuit of a state title. We'd placed in several other events, won the 50, 2nd in the 2-mile, a few others. He figured if I won, we had a crack at it. I was a full 4 seconds behind the leader as I ran my 2nd best time, .7 off my best.

Coach Pat McMahon, Maynard, Mass. Ran Olympic marathon for Ireland.

If it will make you feel better, The miserable Mick got a load of crap from Jock Semple coach of his team, the BAA, because he blamed his BM second on foot blisters.

Should a soaked his feet in Epsom salts before the race, said Jock.

Summer of mslmo is the most ridiculous thing ever.

'Here's how to peak in October!'

I didn't finish the mile race because I crapped my shorts on the third lap and had to stop.

Dumbest thing to do wrote:

I didn't finish the mile race because I crapped my shorts on the third lap and had to stop.

Quote of the day!

Had a coach tell me that i needed to run less mileage and do shorter interval workouts for indoor because the track is shorter (I run 1600m in both seasons). When I tried to explain why I wanted to run more mileage she told me that running 45 minutes a day would kill me.

Last Friday we had the day off school and only 2 boys and 0 girls showed up to practice. For Saturday's long run 4 boys and 1 girl showed.

Coach sent out and email calling out people's commitment saying he refused to coach athletes who couldn't commit to coming to practice daily. "If you can't come every day don't come on Monday."

Now he has no runners because he kicked them all off. Well he can't do that because it's a non-cut sport so our parents are going to the AD and the principal to get him fired.

My Coach Sucks wrote:

Last Friday we had the day off school and only 2 boys and 0 girls showed up to practice. For Saturday's long run 4 boys and 1 girl showed.

Coach sent out and email calling out people's commitment saying he refused to coach athletes who couldn't commit to coming to practice daily. "If you can't come every day don't come on Monday."

Now he has no runners because he kicked them all off. Well he can't do that because it's a non-cut sport so our parents are going to the AD and the principal to get him fired.

0/10

"The only way to win is to finish first!" Thanks, Coach Homeyer.

Same thread from 04 here:

My response on 3rd page about churnin butter.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=385821

Coach qoutes-

During pushups- "Quit making love to the ground! Give me some good ones."

"You only know what you know."

During 10 miler- "You guys are running garbage miles, you might as well be at home on a couch eating potato chips."