I’m jealous of kids that go to highschool in California

I went to high school in the 90's, way up north in Michigan. Our temperatures in the summer rarely hit 90, and summer was only warm for two and half months. Winter was brutal - from November to April - and then it warmed up a bit in May. I often thought of kids from anywhere south of Tennessee, Florida, California and even Washington being able to put in so many pleasant miles on non-icy, non-snowy terrain year round. There is only so much treadmill running one can take. Running in blizzards is also a pretty terrible experience but we just got used to it.

Quality speed work? Good luck.

I also think about football players in the south being able to be on grass year round as well and what a clear advantage they had. Our field was only useable for 6 months at best. Our HS QB had to resort to throwing in our gym before basketball practice and could never practice his deep ball.

I taught PE in The Bronx and never had decent facilities, 100 kids in a gym and no outdoor facilities was the norm.

The whole California coast always seemed like a teaching/coaching paradise for me.

California kids are also kind of soft because they do not experience any hardships or inconveniences. Sure, they dominate high school running because of perfect weather and the ability to train more but it evens out after college. In fact, many Olympians hail from "awful" places. It instilled a certain grit and toughness in them and they developed later when they went to school in "nicer" places. Let's see where the NP kids are in ten years. I wager that only two win an NCAA individual title and none make an Olympic team.

I went to a HS about 20 min from the beach. In San Diego. It was awesome. The last thing I ever wanted to do was run. Beaches, skinny dumb girls everywhere, so many other things to do than run around a track , having “faggs” yelled at us by the football 🏈 jocks doing their warmups. Our team sucked but we were distracted.

It's not like a reality show. That's some kind of fantasy and you probably watch too much TV. If you are not a rich kid, don't think going to a rich high school would be all that spectacular. It would probably be better than your rural deep south school, but I doubt it would be everything you think it would be.

You want to know what’ll make you run much faster and have you hit max HR? Visiting a city as a tourist, making a wrong turn (and then a couple more trying to escape) and clearly getting into a bad area, and then hearing gunshots. Ended up running into the college nearby and using their facilities to call for help.

Anyone want to guess what city this was in? I’ll give you a hint - it hasn’t had a Republican mayor since the ‘30s.

Why would I worry about the public schools? I put my kids in private school in California. And the weather is great for running, which is what the thread was about, wasn't it?

Doesn’t really matter where you are, if you are rich everything is better.

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The only time I ran in high school was at the end of each year, the PE teacher would allow you to make up missed classes by running laps. It was an “easy” way to pass tennis if you were failing tennis because you’d rather skip PE and go to the beach every afternoon. There was just too much else to do, nobody seriously thought about running in their spare time. I didn’t run again until my mid 20s when I found myself in the Midwest for grad school.

Was high school really like the OC? Not really. My parents were what we called middle class at the time, but were really upper middle class. Nobody drove Porsches or Mercedes to school, but many people had a Bentley or Rolls Royce in the garage (and of course a Porchse and a Mercedes). I didn’t realise how much wealthier some of my friends were until I was fairly close to graduating. To help you guess my age: I remember going to a birthday party…16 or 17. I bought him a compact disc. Another friend bought him a box of 20. It hadn’t occurred to me that I should be spending 3 or 400 hundred dollars on a present instead of $20.

In retrospect, the best part about going to high school in California: In state tuition in the University of California system. Even today, it’s only like $13k a year. And the UCs are unlike public schools in other states; they’re actually good schools. Although my parents weren’t wealthy, there was never any question about college being paid for. I didn’t have to worry about scholarships, loans, or working. “I can’t afford to go to college…” is not something people in California say.

I just think about how awesome it would be to get out of school on a Friday, go to the beach all afternoon, then go to someone’s parents badass house for a party. Wake up Saturday morning and go to a Padres day game and do it all over again Saturday afternoon,

As an adult I would rather be middle class in SD than upper class in the south.

give me the decent apartment over the 4000 square foot home on 10 acres

Yeah, the vast majority of kids in CA do not do this. Like most places, people take their surroundings for granted.

You are assuming you would be invited to those parties and have the money for those Padres games. Maybe. Maybe not. Some of the beaches are cool. Some are full of territorial mean bro types that don't want strangers surfing their beaches and will let you know.

Why don't you just work a job and save up money to visit San Diego? It's not going to live up to your fantasy.

My wife, two teenagers and I visited last September. It was beautiful. We spent a lot of our time at LaJolla and Pacific beach and stayed at a hotel where Mission Bay and Pacific Beach meet- a morning jog on the bay side followed by a dip in the ocean.

Driving up the coast is beautiful. I suspect running near Dana Point or Laguna is nicer than the South Bronx.

I know that no place is perfect but it is beautiful.

Fair enough, this is achievable. If this is your dream, you can absolutely make this happen and move there. When you get a little older, that 10 acres is gonna sound increasingly more seductive as the crowds get tiresome (but maybe not for youth).

You don't think guys who can run 13:43 5K or 3:56 mile in high school can be developed in a decade to make the Olympic team, when they have been improving consistently every season (barring injury and illness) and will likely follow a similar trajectory to Nico? What makes you think they can't make it in the next 4 years let alone TEN years? Oh, but they're really lacking in mental toughness.. absolutely brilliant reasoning there.