Our first 800m of the season how do these times compare for males and females of high school age

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LOL what? For High Schoolers in November I think that makes them #1 in the nation for either gender. Assuming this is either a troll, or you're extremely mistook

Those times would probably be school records for at least 75% of the schools in the U.S.

CoachB is from Australia, hence start of season.

*coahc

Btw, did you coach Joe Deng before he went to JRinaldi?

School records on both sides.

turkeydog wrote:

Those times would probably be school records for at least 75% of the schools in the U.S.

Yeah, um, those are way better than most American kids could pony up coming right off their cross country season...or operating on one lung due to COVID and complete absence of any nationalized health care.

Yep we are in Australia. Our Cross Country nats were cancelled like everywhere else both junior athletes have been with me for about 5 years.

Our track and field season runs from Oct-Nov but remember no indoor here.

coahc wrote:

For all the high school coaches out there. We had our first 800m race of the season and our top male ran 1:52.67 and our best female 2:13.39 how do these times compare to your school. Looking for a discussion on how best to develop high school middle distance runners.

They would both be battling for 2nd on our teams. I'm always impressed when a coach has runners of that level on both genders. Hell, even just having two kids at a collegiate level in high school usually moves them past just being lucky with talent.

Any particular things you're looking to dive into with developing 800m runners? It seems like you've got a handle on it already if those are your kids, but I'd be up for sharing some thoughts if there's a direction you wanted the discussion to move in.

Best on our team will run 1:52 and 2:09 end of track season. Probably 1:59 and 2:14 now.

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coahc wrote:

For all the high school coaches out there. We had our first 800m race of the season and our top male ran 1:52.67 and our best female 2:13.39 how do these times compare to your school. Looking for a discussion on how best to develop high school middle distance runners.

They would both be battling for 2nd on our teams. I'm always impressed when a coach has runners of that level on both genders. Hell, even just having two kids at a collegiate level in high school usually moves them past just being lucky with talent.

Any particular things you're looking to dive into with developing 800m runners? It seems like you've got a handle on it already if those are your kids, but I'd be up for sharing some thoughts if there's a direction you wanted the discussion to move in.

Just curious what type of volume your athletes do? How many days per week on the track?

What specific 800m sessions do you like?

coahc wrote:

Just curious what type of volume your athletes do? How many days per week on the track?

What specific 800m sessions do you like?

The 1:52.7 is about what Peter Snell ran (1:54 half-mile) in that racing season, and then joined with Lydiard.

The 2:13 is good, but this is nearly the end of your school year, so she is a fresh, soph, junior or senior?