"Your brain doesn't know what your body can't do. You still think you're 19, and your body is willing to listen to your body and pretend that it hasn't aged. But if you let it, you'll get injured. And my goal is to get your running without getting hurt."
With that perfect answer to the question, "What's the toughest thing about coaching old-fart runners?" Ric Rojas became my first real track coach.
I sent him my payment and the next week we sat down and mapped out a training schedule. I was bursting at the seams with excitement.
Granted the training looked daunting, 3 days a week of running plus an additional day of sprint conditioning. But it wasn't the time commitment that worried me. It was the actual running. Long distance running.
"We need to get you a base of conditioning," Ric explained.
That in no way assuaged my anxiety when I saw things like 2-mile warm up run... considering that I don't think I've EVER run more than 1/2 a mile and, again, that was THIRTY YEARS AGO!
But, considering that one of my training goals was dropping about 15 pounds of body fat so I could have a better strength to weight ratio for sprinting, I thought, "Hey, for all I know I'll like it," and I added the long-distance running schedule to my PDA's calendar.
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