7 Replies to “Diversify to Improve Your Running – Don’t limit yourself due to type-casting”

  1. I suppose I do tend to typecast myself a bit – I know that the longer the race, the better I am at it. I definitely showed more and more talent as I kept moving up the ladder – the 3k, 5k, 10k, half marathon. But, that said, I haven’t raced a ton, and you DEFINITELY make a good point about working on your weaknesses! Its so easy to just play to your strengths all the time, but of course the gains you make in something you’re good at are always going to be smaller than the gains you make in the things you’re not so great at! After graduating, I met this chick who told me I could run an OT marathon, and she offered to coach me, and I automatically assumed we would begin by running a marathon! Um, apparently I will not run the 26.2 for another few years – and I’ll spend this next couple working on my 5k and 10k speed, something I usually avoid! Bring on the challenge I guess! 😛

    • very smart coach of ur’s. i found out pretty soon that the longer events are better suited to me but my coach was frank: you’re too young for a marathon even if u want to do one. wait until u’re a little older. (at the time i was 20-ish…i think he would have held me back until i was at lesat 23 or 24)

  2. I love ignoring my weaknesses 😉 lol j/k well kind of….I do put off speed work and prefer tempos and interval training over the track doing 800’s 😛 but hey, I’m actually more concerned with being able to run as opposed to what distance. lol

    I think I may try to do another 5k this year during my marathon training just to see if I can run faster

  3. Great advice to diversify workouts. I typecast myself as slow, slow, slow. 😉 I should probably stop being complacent with that label and put some work behind changing it!

    • u are one only slow if u force urself into believing u are! 😉 don’t limit urself, push a little bit and u’d be surprised how quickly u’ll start to gain speed and ur runs will be faster. all about smart training! 🙂

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