Nope. Walked on to a D III program because I didn't start running until my freshman year of college.
Nope. Walked on to a D III program because I didn't start running until my freshman year of college.
Have your dad email him and tell him he's ruining your bright athletic future and needs to do workouts that you agree with. Make sure he bcc's the AD and the University President.
Smoove wrote:
Nope. Walked on to a D III program because I didn't start running until my freshman year of college.
Most D1 programs use a training system called "survival of the luckiest". As you've probably observed here, cognitive dissonance leads many D1 athletes to believe that this is a good thing, the way it should be. They then make fun of other athletes who didn't go through such a system ("I don't care how fast you ran, you didn't run D1").
Yeah, not my experience. My school went D I right after I left (I was last year of D III), and my coach is still there 23 years later (and they own their non-elite conference) and they definitely take a more customized approach. I've definitely seen and heard about programs that put everyone in the grinder and wait to see who comes out in the other side, but this approach just seems like a terrible idea. I would've definitely washed out and my coach would've missed out on arguably the program's top distance runner (I still hold our school 5k record, as soft as it may be for a D I standard).