I had a brief stint with a coach who I’m fairly certain was getting me mixed up with another athlete he was coaching. Several times he assigned bike rides that started 40 miles from my house, when there were plenty of routes within 10 miles of similar terrain, to which I had to tell him “no” each time and to change the route. He would also have me do runs at paces that didn’t correspond to the profile we set-up together. I severed ties after six months and have been flying solo since.