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Poster: Lex Baebia
Subject: RE: Why is it wrong to train high school kids ambitiously?
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lease wrote:

More than 90% of high school runners never run on a college team. Give the kids a good experience at the high school level. The best way to do that is to give them the experience of being on a winning team.

And the best way to do *that* is to get them as frosh, build them up progressively, and get them to the 70-100mpw (at times) level by the time they're upperclassman. See: Joe Newton, whose students get a fantastic educational experience in HS cross-country.


I think the double standard is funny. People love to praise York then at the same time blame him for burning kids out. If I had a choice I'd rather be "burned out" and run 14:30s in high school than "be saved for later" and ran 16:00s.
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