frozen north wrote:
This is an awesome thread!
I am also dealing with this. I have been doing harder/faster workouts than I ever have, yet I have not done as well in races. My coach says it's because I don't push myself enough in races and that I have to push myself harder in training. I know what I have to do..... Every day of the week.
malmo wrote:
Part of the problem is that athletes often try to "keep up" with teammates they have no business trying to run with. There's nothing wrong with training hard or even very hard, if it's within your current ability. If you find yourself keeping up for part of a workout and then fading. Or training at your level, then challenging the faster runners on the team during the last few reps, you're probably shooting yourself in your feet. I've seen situations like I just described, where athletes would show up and run one big workout, or parts of a workout with the leaders, only to be so shot afterwards, you wouldn't see them again for a week -- then to repeat the same idiot cycle all over.
Tranining is a recurring process of stress then recovery, not stress then crash and burn.
"If you have 5 guys training together, at most there will be one guy doing the proper training" - Bill Squires