Anyone else run 4 events ? (Distance)

Never did 4 races but I tripled in a Friday night/Saturday meet with the 10k, 5k, and 3k.

dude that is a sick quadruple.

in HS i ran the 4x8, 2 mile, mile, and anchored 4x4 every track meet (except state) my junior and senior years (all 1 day meets). small-town school in the midwest so coaches thought nothing of it & knew jack about distance running/training but (neither did i at the time so i saw no problem with it either hahaha!). good thing i was only running ~15 mpw.

junior year at districts went something like:

4x8: 2:05, 3rd as team (just missed state Q)

2mile: 10:20 PR,3rd (state Q)

mile: 4:41 PR, 2nd (state Q)

4x4: 50.X, 2nd (outkicked 2 guys the last 100m to nab the state Q spot)

granted the distance times were weak, but i was a football/basketball guy with no prior track/distance running experience. that 4x4 is still probably the coolest thing i've ever experienced in athletics.

I ran those four events in every meet I ever ran in high school, with the exception of states and a couple of relay invitationals. More than once I did it three times in a week with dual meets Tuesday and Thursday and an invite Saturday.

It actually wasn't that bad, as the dual meets were not all out and more like speed work. I would do things like stay mid pack in the 800 for the first 500 and then work on moving through the pack the last 300. Helped with running in a pack, etc. when it mattered. Sometimes I'd just do a fartlek type workout during the 3200. Stuff like that.

Easy runs and racing a lot. That was my high school career and I loved it.

Rodney Giles, Northern, 1983 Maryland State Championships (5 hours)

Quadruple

1600 4:17.8 (1st)

400 47.8 (1st)

800 1:51.0 (1st)

4 x 800 1:46.7 (1st)

Dave Sandridge 1973 Atlanta Track Classic 90 minutes

Triple

1 mile 4:15.4 (1st, fell down after the 1st lap, laid flat until the field jumped over, then got up and won)

880 1:53.9 (2nd)

2 mile 9:06.4(1st)

Dale Bateman, Laurel 1971 Prince George’s County (MD) Champs

Triple

1 mile 4:14.5 (1st)

880 1:56.0 (1st)

Triple jump 42-7.5 (2nd)

Stephen Pierce. Portland Masters Track Club. He's an animal.

a guy at a small state indoor meet two years ago won the 1k in a pretty fast time (not sure what but he could go sub 2 800 in his sleep) then came back won the mile agaist a guy who runs for wisco now. After that he basically tempoed the 32000 to get third to the wisco and a yale guy (future yale/wisco obvi seeing as this is highschool).

All that was small beans compared to what he pulled in the 4x400m. After winning two state titles and racing a 3200 he split a 50.2 to get a state record and win the meet. No joke

Yes tons of people quadruple in meets. It happens all the time at high school meets across the country.

It is much less impressive that this occured over 2 days.

Those are very good times though (as you already know).

Those are impressive times! To answer your question, my son did that quad at just about every track meet in high school, and so did a few of his teammates. Not at all uncommon at a D4 high school.

When I was in high school there was a rule that you could not run more than 3 events in one meet.

I usually ran the 400 and the 200 and it meant that I could only run one relay. I preferred the 4 X 100.

In college, I never ran more than two events at a meet.

Over two days I've done - trials 1000m, trials 4X8, final 1000m, final 4X8.

So that's four distance races in two days but only two events.

My best high school triple was winning the 100 (11.4), 4X100 and 800 (2:02) in the same day.

At my college conference meet it is not uncommon for top middle distance runners to run 800 trials and 4x800 on Saturday and 1500 and 800 final on Sunday. Some will add 4x4 on at the end.

Really?!?! Jesus Im not the only one

Yeah I know, I was feeling it by the 3200m. Next meet I ran 4:14 and 9:27 (only doubled that meet) so Im not completely sure whether it was based on less races or improvement.