How fast is your coach?

peace,love&running wrote:i have the same coach for xc & track. in college he ran a 4:08 mile. hes absolutely amazing; he cares more for the long-term and building than the results he's getting right now.

nice.

AudienceOfOne wrote:

FK wrote:He went to Tennessee on full scholarship and roomed with Fam. My other coach was coached by Jack Daniels and had a low 4:10s mile, and I have another coach who told us about these really fast training runs his coach made them do but I don't know ho fast he was.

wow

no wonder you have a good team....

Actually the Tennessee coach wasn't that good of a coach. He had the ability too, but I think when he came on as a new coach (in indoor this year) he wasn't sure what he could really do as a coach. However he's coming on good as coach of girl's outdoor this season. The Daniels one is a lot better, he's our head XC and outdoor coach.

FK wrote:

AudienceOfOne wrote:

FK wrote:He went to Tennessee on full scholarship and roomed with Fam. My other coach was coached by Jack Daniels and had a low 4:10s mile, and I have another coach who told us about these really fast training runs his coach made them do but I don't know ho fast he was.

wow

no wonder you have a good team....

Actually the Tennessee coach wasn't that good of a coach. He had the ability too, but I think when he came on as a new coach (in indoor this year) he wasn't sure what he could really do as a coach. However he's coming on good as coach of girl's outdoor this season. The Daniels one is a lot better, he's our head XC and outdoor coach.

cool. atleast they all know what they're doing.

we have a ~17:00 5k guy (IIRC) as the distance coach, and the field coach was apparently an absolute badass at the throws back in the day.

mine had a 14:xx 5k. lol, i actually googled his name to see how good of a runner he was. (no, i'm not a stalker )

my middle school coach is a sub 2 800 runner now and a 16ish 5k
highschool coach is older but still a good runner

My high school coach had a ton of injuries in college, so he didn't reach his full potential there, but about 3 years ago someone challenged him to a race at a local mile race out by us (and he doesn't like to lose) and he ran a 4:46 off of a summer of training.
My college coach ran a 2:20 marathon and I think he just missed out on making the trials.

SLOW...he ran in hs and college but hes slowed down alot...he ran like a low 17 or high 16 in hs...i dont remember...but i can easily beat him now it is so much fun when he goes for long runs with us though

The football coach ran 4:03 8:39 and 14:23.

my coach is beasttt.

When he was 39 he ran a 14:39 5k

i know he was 3rd on my schools XC team when they won state, and im pretty sure he had a 4:0X mile

now hes 54 and still runs a 16 minute 5k

amherst_xc wrote:my coach is beasttt.

When he was 39 he ran a 14:39 5k

i know he was 3rd on my schools XC team when they won state, and im pretty sure he had a 4:0X mile

now hes 54 and still runs a 16 minute 5k

thats just my xc coach, my track coach is pretty beast too but hes a lot younger.


In college he had around a 25minute 8k (around 5:00 flat per mile). He also had around a 4:10 1500 and a 15:20 5k

wow the two people above me have a really fast coach

ya their coaches are really fast

my coach is in his 60s and he's still really fit. it's pretty cool.

my other coach is in her 20s and she's pretty fit too.

my coach
36:23 10K
close to 16 min 5K
don't know the rest.
I know in track he was an 800 runner, but I don't know the time on that.

Slow people don't become coaches unless it's a bad school.

or if they coach jr. high.

runforlifex3 wrote:or if they coach jr. high.

thecoach ill hav next yr in 6th grade is fast
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yall can run in 6th grade...we cant play school sports till 7th grade....no wait they have elementary football and cheerleading...thats alabama for you

wow, no sports till 7th grade that sucks

FK wrote:Slow people don't become coaches unless it's a bad school.

That was a really ignorant post.

Do names like Mark Wetmore, or Bill Bowerman mean anything to you?

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:

FK wrote:Slow people don't become coaches unless it's a bad school.

That was a really ignorant post.

Do names like Mark Wetmore, or Bill Bowerman mean anything to you?

Most people. I'm just saying everyone on here says their coach is fast and that's because usually you don't become a coach unless you're fast.

mae2937 wrote:yall can run in 6th grade...we cant play school sports till 7th grade....no wait they have elementary football and cheerleading...thats alabama for you

kinda same. You can do a league through the city for like football and soccer but thats $$. you cant do sports till 7th, I didn't start till 8th.

Kinda offtopic, but they moved the middle school track season to fall, now we dont have to share the track in the spring time but I thought it was really weird. And it sucks for this little 7th grader we have thats really good, because now he wont be able to do xc anymore.

my coach was an all american runner at rutgers with a 48 400

minikrak wrote:my coach was an all american runner at rutgers with a 48 400

How can you be an All-American in college with a 48 400? There's plenty of people doing that now is HS.