Keep going, the trail should get better...
It was a bad idea jeans moment
Keep going, the trail should get better...
It was a bad idea jeans moment
Drinking the day before a race.
Increasing cadence forcefully to 180 without understanding that high cadence is a result of high shape and not vice versa. For two months I looked like a duckling with tiny fast strides
I'm Never Wrong wrote:
When I ran my first mile race in 6th grade, my assistant coach told me that if I go super hard the first 400m, then my legs will go numb and it'll be easier to run and if I'm falling off pace then I'm not trying hard enough.
Needless to say, I ran a massive positive split of almost 2 minutes in that race
I think he majorly trolled you. To this day, he probably talks about the kid who took his sarcasm seriously and was an idiot...
Speaking of trolls, my collegiate coaches are such idiots that I believe they are trolling me sometimes. Not the same coaches that recruited me. I won't post exact, because I know one comes here, but a few stories here line up...
PaybackPig wrote:
What is the worst running advice you have ever received?
Hey, you should check out letsrun.com.
I will never understand why people think running ruins your knees. You're more likely to screw them up doing something else.
Never take running advice from people who don't run. LOL
Sprint hard the first 8 seconds of a 5K. It's alactic energy. You either use it or lose it.
Once overheard Centro SR yelling at a bunch of college kids that the only difference between them and Centro JR was that he ran more miles and worked harder than they did and that all they had to do to get as good as him was to run as much as he did. I hope they didn't believe him.
PaybackPig wrote:
What is the worst running advice you have ever received?
"Jerking off, tonsil spelunking and tuna spear fishing is directly, immediately good for race performance." No.
Indirectly, yeah. Having booty calls increases life success and satisfaction, helping training and carrying out one's affairs.
Baby any injury, or pain, and don't run until the stuff is gone.
TakeitBack wrote:
I'm not sure if this is true or not, it may be true but it DID NOT WORK for me.
But I was at a 5k, some lady who I perceived as being very intelligent was chatting with me prior to the race, I asked her about her pace and stuff, she told me that the first 20 seconds of exercise has no cardiac impact (Yeah i dunno). I blew out the door past everyone and then was in so much pain/had so much lactate at the end i threw up everywhere.
The first 3-15 seconds (depending on your fitness) taxes a different energy system (alactic system), allowing you to get out fast and settle....this would only be for maybe 50-75 yards.
When seeing a doctor for a stress fracture from ill-fitting shoes...."Maybe you should try swimming".
Not trustworthy wrote:
To run a base of a large number of almost exclusively slow miles.
THIS!
Like most things in life, running injuries would go away if you ignored them long enough. The best way to prevent future injuries is to ignore the current one.
Let's Run lies wrote:
"High mileage makes you race faster"
+1000
hammerhead___1 wrote:
"All fast runners do their easy days b/w 6:00-6:10/mile"
...that's D1 coaching for ya
Somewhat similar, I used to listen to idiots that prescribed high mileage (meaning, 100 - 120 mpw). After becoming sick and injured on numerous occasions - and watching others become and injured on numerous occasions - I finally learned that that running 80 to 85 quality miles per week is infinitely better than following the old school approach. No matter what distance you're racing, anything beyond 90 mpw is simply junk mileage.
PaybackPig wrote:
What is the worst running advice you have ever received?
Worst Advice = "Use a heart rate monitor." Most worthless and overrated piece of technology ever. Run by feel and you'll be fine, and you'll certainly get more out of your hard days.
HR monitor I find very useful, especially in the summer to make sure I'm not going too hard on easier days. I don't use it during workouts.
I didn't say to ignore injuries and pain. You must be a PT!
Just Another LRC Idiot wrote:
Like most things in life, running injuries would go away if you ignored them long enough. The best way to prevent future injuries is to ignore the current one.
Same old, same old... wrote:
Being told to stop running, as I'll "ruin my knees"-- from multiple out-of-shape people, many of whom with knees ruined by something other than running.
I'm constantly told by others how it ruined their knees or will ruin my knees. I've run enough to know that doing too much too soon is the kind of thing that ruins knees. Yes, running will ruin your knees if at 40 or 50 or 60 years old you try to jump back into the sport like you used to train. Or if you were never a runner and tried too hard to take it up at any given point. Your knee could always get jacked up from tracking wrongly or arthritis. All possibilities. But with intelligent training running by itself is not doomsday for your knees.