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Some people do. Some people don't. It depends on how aerobically underdeveloped you are in HS as well as your basic speed.
2:01 guy off of 35mpw? Might want to move up to the mile and train at higher mpw.
1:53 guy off 35mpw, with a 50 second 400? Definitely got the wheels to run the 800. Stay there.
I think it's mainly in mile/ 2 mile runners. Despite the popular mantra that teenagers have no aerobic strength, I personally wish high school track offered 5000m.
it is actually the second law of training.
you can't run the same distance in college that you ran in high school, and when you go-pro you have to move up again.
which explains why there are so few professional 400m hurdlers.
cheers.
Braaaaaaahp wrote:
Some people do. Some people don't. It depends on how aerobically underdeveloped you are in HS as well as your basic speed.
2:01 guy off of 35mpw? Might want to move up to the mile and train at higher mpw.
1:53 guy off 35mpw, with a 50 second 400? Definitely got the wheels to run the 800. Stay there.
Don't even think about moving up with that kind of speed. You'll never win NCAA xc with 1:53/50 speed.
No its not true, there are a lot of guys that were HS state XC champs and then go to college and run the 100m. Happens ALLLLL the time.
After 20+ years of college coaching, I can share this little secret: In large part, college coaches put kids in new events so that the kids can see some kind of progress, in their first two years (or so) as college athletes.
The move is not always to a longer distance--I know a guy who was a state mile champ in high school and won the quarter in his D1 conference meet--but if there's *some* kind of different event available, the coach will generally try to move the kid there. Otherwise, it can be tough to maintain an athlete's enthusiasm as s/he sees that, despite "better" training in college, her/ his performances don't match the level of her/his high school performances.
In general you can't teach more speed but you can teach better endurance.
I was a 3200/5000m guy in high school with a 56 in the 400m.
Eventually ended up being a 400m/800m guy with PRs of 50/1:52. This was after 2-3 years of me thinking I was a 3k/5k guy in college, too.
You never know. Trust me.
I ran road 10Ks all the time in high school.
I think it varies from person to person, but usually that's what happens.
I was a 400/800 person in high school and first two years of college before I finally converted to the 800/1500 junior year.
The track 2-mile/3200m/3k goes away outdoors, you have the 5000m and 10,000m as events on the track. Cross-country moves from 5k to 8k/10k (men's).
So someone who's suited to longer races will likely move up. That's not because of some rule saying 'You have to move up in college'. It's because the opportunity to race longer races wasn't there in high school.
Sprinter James Sanford won the California State Meet in the 400.
After going to USC he moved down to the 100, ranked #1 in the world in 1979.
Alternate Reality wrote:
Sprinter James Sanford won the California State Meet in the 400.
After going to USC he moved down to the 100, ranked #1 in the world in 1979.
And of course Usain Bolt was more of a 400 guy BITD...
I was primarily a 2 miler in high school. In college I ran everything from 1500-10k, but the 3k was always by far my best event.
I tried moving down; was a 4 min miler and raced a T25 decathlete @ 400 meters for a case of Keystone Light. I lost a lot of pride and a case of beer that day.
XC runners definitely move up in distance from HS to college.