This Sunday, my XC team is hosting a 2 mile time trials for varsity spots. The top 7 finishers are varsity, and I have the 6th best 2 mile PR on my team. What would be the optimal race strategy to ensure I get a varsity spot?
This Sunday, my XC team is hosting a 2 mile time trials for varsity spots. The top 7 finishers are varsity, and I have the 6th best 2 mile PR on my team. What would be the optimal race strategy to ensure I get a varsity spot?
You have it or you don't. That's all you need to know.
Don't go hunting for a PR. Just stay close to the top pack and kick.
Considering most programs aren't doing too much speedwork this early in the season, my advice would be know where you belong amongst the top group and judge how you feel from there, be fearless and have fun out there
Ur right, I've been doing 40 mpw the whole summer but hardly any speed work besides quality tempos.
GroinLoins wrote:
Considering most programs aren't doing too much speedwork this early in the season, my advice would be know where you belong amongst the top group and judge how you feel from there, be fearless and have fun out there
I think I would throw the time trial if I was #6.
You only have so many times that you can go to the well. I don't know exactly when your important races that decide who will be on varsity for divisional and regional races are but certainly they are in October. Those races are 5 or 6 or 7 weeks away. A solid 9th or 10th place in the time trial will give you all the training stimulus with none of the downside. If you can't get yourself to plan to throw it, go out in 10th or 12th and slowly move up.
The goals of August and September are to improve, save showing off for October.
I don't see the point in deciding who makes varsity based on a single time trial early in the season. It's normal for high schoolers to set huge PR's so you might have a kid wind up 30 seconds faster in October than someone who beat him in August.
The point of the time trial is that 6 days or so later the team will be attending a meet. Only 7 can run in the Varsity race so you have to pick somehow.
jdsjjjfjfpgfpg wrote:
I don't see the point in deciding who makes varsity based on a single time trial early in the season. It's normal for high schoolers to set huge PR's so you might have a kid wind up 30 seconds faster in October than someone who beat him in August.
Varsity can change throughout the seaosn
Try to run the 2 mile time trial as quickly as possible.
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