Flagpole wrote:
Live to run another day..... wrote:
We had a kid dq'ed last year for what I understand was the same thing but I didn't see it. No contact but drifted over lanes not even realizing he was doing it. He won and the other kid got 2nd and they both would have advanced but their coach protested.
While it is nice to win, the bigger goal is to advance and these kids would have been better off just cruising in for 2nd.
The kid on your team realized he was doing it. It's an attempt to block the runner from passing and making them run further. It's perhaps an instinct to do that, but it is not allowed. There does not have to be contact.
I never fault a kid for trying to win a District championship.
Here you go again, attributing intent to where its none. Its pretty obvious you've never been much of a runner yourself. As I said before, this happens all the time even if the runner is alone upfront. Do you even watch track and field? Runners even do this in their really hard workouts, drift out from lane one. Its completely normal.
