Training With Your Peers
2936
Member
1358 days
Anton posted 1 year ago.
You can lead a triathlete to water but you can't make them think.
As you well should know, the best lessons are the ones learned from experience..your OWN experience.
You can't ride them about what they are doing ...unless they ask for advice,as you often have here. If they ask for advice or the subject comes up in conservation, great. If not...let it go. Do what you know is best for you....run YOUR race. Be a positive example and they will follow.
No offense meant,but the curse of youth is the belief that you are indestructable...so no need to follow a plan or a training principle. You have learned that is wrong thinking. They have to learn it themselves.
We have all met and developed a dislike for the person who has the (supposed) correct answer for everything. Don't become that person.
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
My Blog: http://agingsuperhero.blogspot.com
2332
Member
2416 days
Tribro posted 1 year ago.
Ya, just stick to your training. If they start riding to hard, drop back and stay in your training zones. It'll be tough at times, but I think when you look at overall performance over the year and years to come, they'll start coming to you for your secrets ;)
The principles can be tough to stick by, and hard to explain to those unfamiliar, but you can't argue with the results endurance athletes like Mark Allen, Peter Reid, Normann Stadler, Lance Armstrong, Floyd (well maybe don't include floyd just now...). Those guys may not say they follow Freil or X coach, but they all follow the endurance training principles of periodisation, heart rate training or percieved effort, and years of building base. They got some flack in the early years I'm sure, but nobody questions them now...
360
Member
979 days
alowrun posted 1 year ago.
Yea, thats a good point.
A few years back, other endurance athletes would ask my parents if I was taking a rest day ever week, and they said no.
It is true, that youth hides many sins.
To be still doing this decades later, will require some serious planning.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
-A-Low
I Believe In Cross Country
A ton of folks on this forum have seemingly infinite wisdom.
I'm relatively new to endurance sports (about 5 years now) but alot of my peers, are ready to disregard to principles that all the best endurance athletes recomend (Friel, Scott, Allen, Radcliffe, Culpepper, etc).
I don't want to be a stickler to them, but every now and then I want to recomend some of these principles, without being invasive.
What do you all recomend? Just stay solo, or be polite about it?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
-A-Low
I Believe In Cross Country