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Originally Posted by pelagius
Agreed. I didn't mean to suggest that some people on the team didn't benefit from high interval volume. But I do not think I did. Even in High school I was fairly muscular for a middle distance runner (mostly the 800). I think the kind of volume we did was hard on a bigger runner like me. I would lose weight throughout the season (for example about 185 to about 175 my junior year) but I also got slower. At the time it just got me frustrated. But looking back its hard to imagine that it wasn't overtraining.
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High school coaches are notoriously bad track coaches. Most of the better high school aged track athletes rely upon a club coach, because athletes need tailored workouts, and high school coaches are often too lazy to go into that level of detail. Our local high school coach is awful, because he's too easy. He claims if he made it harder he'd have fewer athletes, to which I point out, do you want a few committed athletes who will score or a bunch who don't score?