I mean, it would be interesting doing a farther distance for state championships/NXN/Foot locker, and would probably be better for college recruiters to look at.
Why do they not do this?
I mean, it would be interesting doing a farther distance for state championships/NXN/Foot locker, and would probably be better for college recruiters to look at.
Why do they not do this?
This could be good wrote:
I mean, it would be interesting doing a farther distance for state championships/NXN/Foot locker, and would probably be better for college recruiters to look at.
Why do they not do this?
"College recruiters"
Do you mean a coach? Kids barely want to join the team to run a 5k, what makes you think another 10 minutes of running will encourage them?
Injuries, decreaased competition, boring loop courses, available time are a few reasons. Personally, I think mens collegiate XC should drop down to 8k if not 6k.
I wish states run 3k.
running commenter wrote:
This could be good wrote:
I mean, it would be interesting doing a farther distance for state championships/NXN/Foot locker, and would probably be better for college recruiters to look at.
Why do they not do this?
Kids barely want to join the team to run a 5k, what makes you think another 10 minutes of running will encourage them?
Well, it is state. Anyone running state must have some modicum of dedication in them.
Also, on the recruiting thing, I personally think it would be easier for coaches to recruit if they knew what their recruits could run for collegiate distances.
Why should high school athletes compete at collegiate distances? There is such a thing as age, maturity and level of training to consider in high school. The high school program really is more than a minor league showcase for college coaches.
Our 8th grade champs is 3k. No idea how college recruiters can evaluate without 5 years of progression at 8k
The NBA should force college basketball games to be 48 minutes. They have no idea which players will transition best from 40 minute games.
+2 Cant believe all the reply's to such a ridiculous idea.
OWG wrote:
Injuries, decreaased competition, boring loop courses, available time are a few reasons. Personally, I think mens collegiate XC should drop down to 8k if not 6k.
Or as I have suggested in the past ....... eliminate the requirement of having predetermined set distances for cross country courses all together. Just let the host school(s) design their individual courses within a suggested min/max distance range, and let the end result be a more natural setting.
For HS I would suggest a min/max of 2 miles to 3.5 miles (that's 3218 meters to 5,631 meters for you metric aficionados).
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Why did it take this long to post this?
From a competitive standpoint this would be a disaster. There’s always significant dispersion in high school athletes abilities/times. In an 8k race you’d see kids running by themselves and nobody around for minutes.
This could be good wrote:
I mean, it would be interesting doing a farther distance for state championships/NXN/Foot locker, and would probably be better for college recruiters to look at.
Why do they not do this?
You think college coaches want to evaluate kids at a distance they haven't trained for?
OWG wrote:
Injuries, decreaased competition, boring loop courses, available time are a few reasons. Personally, I think mens collegiate XC should drop down to 8k if not 6k.
This is lazy middle distance runner thinking. Just because you don't want to put in the miles for the 10K doesn't make it a bad race. Maybe you need to accept the fact that you're too soft for it.
terrible idea wrote:
OWG wrote:
Injuries, decreaased competition, boring loop courses, available time are a few reasons. Personally, I think mens collegiate XC should drop down to 8k if not 6k.
This is lazy middle distance runner thinking. Just because you don't want to put in the miles for the 10K doesn't make it a bad race. Maybe you need to accept the fact that you're too soft for it.
Lets make the State Football Game 5 quarters! Or maybe a 130yd field!
Running On Empathy wrote:
OWG wrote:
Injuries, decreaased competition, boring loop courses, available time are a few reasons. Personally, I think mens collegiate XC should drop down to 8k if not 6k.
Or as I have suggested in the past ....... eliminate the requirement of having predetermined set distances for cross country courses all together. Just let the host school(s) design their individual courses within a suggested min/max distance range, and let the end result be a more natural setting.
For HS I would suggest a min/max of 2 miles to 3.5 miles (that's 3218 meters to 5,631 meters for you metric aficionados).
I agree. I loved my home course in high school, but thought that one of the turns was weird and only served to ensure that it made it to 5000m.
Running On Empathy wrote:
OWG wrote:
Injuries, decreaased competition, boring loop courses, available time are a few reasons. Personally, I think mens collegiate XC should drop down to 8k if not 6k.
Or as I have suggested in the past ....... eliminate the requirement of having predetermined set distances for cross country courses all together. Just let the host school(s) design their individual courses within a suggested min/max distance range, and let the end result be a more natural setting.
For HS I would suggest a min/max of 2 miles to 3.5 miles (that's 3218 meters to 5,631 meters for you metric aficionados).
Dude, there is no "requirement of predetermined set distances." A school can already hold an XC race of 2 or 3.5 miles. Your suggestion doesn't exist
Why do little kids start with t-ball? Or training wheels? Or floaties in the pool. Why isn't the high school boys shot 16lbs? Why are the hurdles lower? I mean, how could a coach possibly know what you could run over high hurdles if you've only ever run over almost high hurdles, right? Oh wait.....
Have you heard of "training age," "maturation," and "development?" I think those are the answers to your (and my) question.
A few years before I started high school our home course was 1.6 miles. That may have been the state standard at the time, but it was a starting area and single loop of our park.
When we began running 5K instead, we just ran two laps of the park. This is sort of what I see each year in NXN and the Foot Locker meet. A bunch of laps of a park.