My teammates give me $hit for not taking sundays off.

Maybe they want more time to spend with you.

Go watch the movie Almost Famous. "You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.". If I knew at 23 what I now know at 33 I would have not had to go ahead and ruin a decade.

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

How many miles do you run per week? Just curious because in hs I ran 6 days a week in the summer and 7 days a week with a day off every 2-3 weeks during the season.

Best runner on the team wrote:My teammates give me $hit for not taking sundays off.

No they don't.

I have most of my runners take Sundays off, though I would encourage them to do some other activity (bike, swim, etc) that day. Several years ago I had a couple of All-State caliber boys that could handle higher mileage better so I had them take a day off every every 10-14 days.

The gap is probably 22 cents on the dollar, not 78, right? Interestingly, that's the power output difference between men and women too.

adiBRO wrote:

Just remind them the wage gap is 78 cents on the dollar.

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

Most of the Mormon athletes take Sunday off, Ed Eyestone and Jarad Ward, both Olympians.

the one constant in the sport of distance running is that nothing works 100% for everyone, there appear to be 1000 ways to approach the sport, some work for some but not everyone.

Sorry that I couldn’t respond to anyone last night. I had to read all of Frankenstein (took about 5 hours) and actually do my Sunday run (lol) since I last posted.

OF COURSE YOU NEED TO TAKE SUNDAYS OFF, IT'S THE SABBATH, YOU UNREPENTANT FOOL!!! DO YOU WANT TO BURN IN THE PITS OF HELL WITH LUCIFER?? PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON THE LORD'S DAY IS AN ABOMINATION TO HIS MAJESTY!! TONIGHT I WILL PRAY EXTRA HARD TO JESUS FOR YOU, IN THE HOPES THAT YOU WILL LEARN TO PROPERLY RESPECT THE LORD!!!

Faith baby faith wrote:

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

Most of the Mormon athletes take Sunday off, Ed Eyestone and Jarad Ward, both Olympians.

This.

Seems to work fine for BYU, plus the past several years worth of NXN champs too.

Don't ditch the long run, race hard Saturday and no run Sunday will not hurt your progress. If you want to maximize your training and your only racing one event on Saturdays, follow the race with a tempo run plus a warm down. Then bike hike or swim Sunday and then long run on Monday.

...or don't! Most don't.

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

Tell them that you were at church one Sunday, and during the sermon, God spoke out a detailed training plan for you, although he kept calling you "Ryan". You can't recall the specifics, but you do remember hearing "Get out!", which you took to mean to beeline it to the backdoor after communion and get out there and do some running! So just tell them that God is your coach, and that he made you do it.

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

Rory, is there some reason you can’t tell this to your teammates directly?

jabroniiiii wrote:

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

You don't need to train 7 days a week, every single day of the year. It is good to take a day off every now and then to recover. Listen to your body. You can do other means of exercises and let your legs recover every now and then.

I take 2-3 weeks off after xc and outdoor. I do either a long run or easy 30-45 minutes because I always feel like $hit in the legs the day after an off day (even when I cross train). My legs recover better through the easy 30-45 min anyways.

Hey so called best runner wrote:

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

Why would they give you $hit if it's so obvious you're the "Best runner on the team"?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not so obvious. Either that, or you're unable to actually understand human interaction, and they aren't giving you $hit at all.

Ask them why they give me $hit cause idk. And it is very obvious I’m the best on the team (we’re good but not great for our size) because I have the best PRs and I am the #1 in xc 90% of the time (with the exception of one bad race).

w45uhfngf wrote:

The 2 best coaches, Lydiard and Daniels, say yes to Sunday runs while the girls say no.

Who are you going to listen to.

The only objection I have to Lydiard is that he is in favor of a long Sunday run while I have better success with

an easy 45 minute run to recover from Saturday's race/workout. But to take the day off, no, why would i do that?

I agree with you I try to do a long run every week (usually Saturday) but it is sometimes on Sunday when I have a race on Sautrday.

Coed team wrote:

Wow I didn’t know any states had gone coed yet. You must be the best runner on the team if you compete against girls.

The guys and girls race and score separately but trust me! We are ONE TEAM! WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM!!! This is according to the girls and my objection made them single me out (even though all of the other guys openly agreed with me) problsbly becuase I have the most individual success.

Guilty wrote:

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

100mpw and doubles 7/7 seems the only viable option for LRC Lydiard-tards but it's not the case.

You can be successfull on many other training regimes especially if you're not a marathoner.

If you're so afraid on skipping one day you don't trust your training at all.

I don’t try to hit a magic number every week (I probably run in the high 60s-low 70s range per week) and I personally enjoy running and shaking out the legs on the wooded trails that I don’t get to run on too frequently.

do this: wrote:

Best runner on the team wrote:

The girls on my team give me $hit constantly for running on sundays (I’m a guy). They say that days off are good for the body and other bs. What do I say? I’ve never missed more than a couple days (mostly precautionary) from injury since I started training seriously.

1. Don't take $hit from anyone, especially girls.

2. Train the way you think is best.

#1 I don’t wanna get suspended... my school is very PC.

#2 I do which is why #1 is a problem!