Why am I getting beat by people that I should be demolishing?

But don't worry, maybe darts or fishing is a sport where you could excell?

You may be overtrained or you may just have less talent.

I have a friend who puts in LOTS of miles every week, but this year I beat her best marathon time by ~10min having ran around 50 miles total in the 4 months prior to the race. My time was crap, obviously, it's just that she doesn't have the talent to run fast, and my slightly less terrible talent was enough to beat all the training she did.

She's an insanely good cyclist though.

why am i still slow wrote:

However, in the next race, a teammate of mine who I should be absolutely destroying beat my by over 10 seconds. He barely ran over the summer and also smokes a shit ton of cigarettes and does a lot of drugs. He literally told me he snorted cocaine and smoked cigarettes the night before the race.

Why am I getting beat by people like this??

The problem is that you are confusing running with morality. Running has nothing to do with cigarettes, drugs, and a single session of snorting cocaine. Running is about who prepares their body the best, not who is the good kid or who works the hardest.

He was undertrained. You were overtrained. He won. Reduce your mileage and pace. You doon't get bonus points for beating your head against a wall.

Well judging by your original post you like to put a good amount of volume into things without bothering to include anything that is actually useful.

Or: you've built up a big summer base and you're ready to put some solid work in now, while your cokehead friend just had his peak race. You were feeling overconfident so you didn't really taper for the race and went out too fast, while your friend took a couple days off and paced himself reasonably. Or you're coming down with a cold.

Lots of possibilities here, not all of which are bad for you. Just race smarter next time.

Why am I getting beat by people that I should be demolishing?

Because that is what a racist deserves!

Hold on, is this an actual running thread?

Because you're a classic wuss.

beaten*

thejeff wrote:

beaten*

+off

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This is up there for the biggest bullshit ever.

If Bekele sat on a couch smoking a hookah all summer and running sporadically do you think your 60 mile weeks would be enough to demolish him?

Talent wins 99% of the time wrote:

If Bekele sat on a couch smoking a hookah all summer and running sporadically do you think your 60 mile weeks would be enough to demolish him?

Probably. Bekele was slow at some point. He was not born in 12:37 shape.