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i'll respond to this 2morro...i think i'm worn out lol
good talk though
good talk though
i'll respond to this 2morro...i think i'm worn out lol
good talk though
I'd check your pedometer. You just ran a 5k like 2 weeks ago right and was around 26 minutes or something? A 3 minute fluctuation is pretty big at that short of a distance.View attachment 859
So at the risk of being made of and ridiculed I guess I ll post this pic, I personal bested in my 3 mile run, was pretty happy thoughts? Criticisms? Trolls?
That has to be one of the dumbest workouts I have ever heard of in my entire life. The work out is seriously having you try and run two sub 6 miles than come back and run another sub 6?Today I ran a thing called the 2-1-1. You run 2 miles and try and get 12 minutes or less. Then you take a 6 minute break and then run 1 mile and try and get under 6 minutes. Then another 6 minute break and finally one last mile and try for under 6 minutes again. I did fairly well for being on vacation before this and not getting to train really. 2 mile was under 12:30, 1st one mile was in the 7:30's and my last mile was in the low 7:00's.
It's not a workout though, it's a fitness test. No one is expected to pass it all. The coaches use it to weed out the kids who have endurance and those who don't and also those who are lazy. Not gonna lie Thou I hated it, it sucks to run that thing :lol:That has to be one of the dumbest workouts I have ever heard of in my entire life. The work out is seriously having you try and run two sub 6 miles than come back and run another sub 6?
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It's not a workout though, it's a fitness test. No one is expected to pass it all. The coaches use it to weed out the kids who have endurance and those who don't and also those who are lazy. Not gonna lie Thou I hated it, it sucks to run that thing :lol:
Your coach is an idiot.
What sport is this even for?
Soccer, not gonna go into detail because it would give away personal info, but saying the program has been succesful under the current coach would be a pretty big understatement, and last year we won a lot of games or came back late in games be ause we were more fit, so I'd say it works pretty good :shrug:
It's not a workout though, it's a fitness test. No one is expected to pass it all. The coaches use it to weed out the kids who have endurance and those who don't and also those who are lazy. Not gonna lie Thou I hated it, it sucks to run that thing :lol:
Unless people on your team was in amazing shape, I assume everyone would fail this fitness test. At my peak I was able to run 3 miles in 18 minutes.. But it took me a little while to get there.
Maybe he does it just to torture us then idk lol, I was just reporting my times in the threadOr because you're good at soccer.
I know track coaches that are complete fuck offs and have state quality runners. Your coach is an idiot in this case. He may be a good "soccer mind" or whatever but this fitness test he gave is idiotic. There are state quality HS XC runners that would have trouble with that "test" at this point in the season.
I wish I could do that lolUnless people on your team was in amazing shape, I assume everyone would fail this fitness test. At my peak I was able to run 3 miles in 18 minutes.. But it took me a little while to get there.
Yeah. Anyone who passed this "test" is playing the wrong sport.
It's not actually testing fitness. It's a coach trying to run people off a team.
I wish I could do that lol
Definitely. Or they live with Kenyans
18 minutes for 3 miles sounds pretty good for the average person who doesn't run much... but in XC, it's nothing special. A lot of people run between 18-20 minutes for 3 miles. Compared to some top runners though, 18 minutes is garbage hahaha. In high school, I remember this dude Evan Jager. He was fuckin insane. he ran it in under 14 minutes I think. Can't remember exactly... it was like 5 years ago. But yeah... He would probably lap me haha.
Well the examples you gave right there was kind of what I was talking about when I was saying some sports articles are similar. If you wrote an article like about your predictions for the season, and a lot of other types of sports articles you'd find on ESPN.com, those are just for entertainment purposes. But like I said, if you're writing a sports article that's actually explaining something [like rules] or like the example you gave about fantasy football, then yeah, it would be pretty much the same thing.
Idk... a lot of sport articles I see are either predictions, rankings, recaps, speculation, ranting, praising, etc. None of those types of articles are giving you advice on anything and they aren't informing you of anything either.. It's just kinda the writer talking about something to do with a particular sport and giving his opinion on it.
A lot of Larry Coon's articles are informative. Fantasy sport writers are giving you advice. If you're looking for an article to explain something to you like positions, rules, etc. that would be informative too. Everything else though just seems like entertainment to me. If you're reading sports articles, chances are you know enough about the sport. You're not reading it to learn anything or to be advised on anything. You're reading just to read it. the writer isn't sitting there writing stuff like "Last year, Tom Brady [the Quarterback f the New England PAtriots. A quarterback is the player that throws the ball] threw X amount of interceptions [an interception is when you throw the ball and the other team catches it]." If you're reading it, you're just expected to know that stuff. Some writers may write a persuasive type of article and use examples to try and get you on their side, but that isn't really giving you advice or anything. It's not like you're sitting there googling "Should I think Dwight Howard is a prima donna?" then find an article telling you why you should think he is. You just find an article on a sports web site with a guy talking about why he thinks DH is a prima donna.
Well, yeah.. technically some of the info you get on a research paper comes from articles. I usually use websites that just give information on the topic I'm researching. I don't think I really ever use "advice articles" though. Like my last research paper was on Stem cells. I found articles where people said why they were against the use of them and why they were for them, but it really wasn't advice. It was just their opinion for why they don't like it, which was mainly moral reasons.
Also thanks for calling me good at soccer :yeah:
Don't get too excited, soccer still sucks.
Don't get too excited, soccer still sucks.
Nah, Soccer's a good time.