How to deal with sprinters on my team annoying distance runners

Just get the distance runners to be fast. My hs teams sprinters suck and our distance carries. We talk down to them 😩

no just fast

you must have slow distance 🤷‍♂️

Do you coach the 1600 and 3200 athletes? If not, coach your athletes and allow 1600 & 3200 athletes and their coach to handle it. If you do coach 1600 & 3200 athletes, be an advocate for your athletes.

Cheering? Shut up about that.

If sprinters are harassing 1600 & 3200 athletes, that needs to stop. It would be best if 1600 & 3200 athletes handle it themselves but the harassment needs to stop.

Train all of your long distance runners for the 800 meter, and tell them to lift more weights. Then recruit the chess team to run the long distance events, and sit back and watch as your newly-alpha 800 meter studs crack jokes at the chess dorks' expense.

I too am a high school coach, and I did exactly this last year. Unfortunately, the sprinter studs continued to bully my 800 meter studs, and end of the season they actually put my studs in a full nelson hold, while encouraging the chess dorks to punch my guys, repeatedly.

Sometimes you just can't win, but I'm confident you'll have more luck than my guys.

I primarily work with the throwers actually, but assist wherever needed/when needed.

Tell the twigs to grow some berries. The sprinters are talking trash but probably just joking. Don’t assist them, they’ll have to learn

you are a teacher of some description right? so it's your responsibility to teach kids to be well rounded good human beings. so do that.

Challenge the sprinters to a cross country race or 3200m race. If distance running is so easy for them, see how they manage to perform in such simple sport. Compare the differential of the difference in performance over distance to that over the sprints and I expect that your distance team will have the win by some margin. Then you can state that your team have the better overall runners no matter what.

BBC > LWC

Nothing you can do about nature

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That’s difficult. Our coach required every athlete to stay unless they had an actually good reason, and that meant that everyone would be watching the 3200 and then the 4x400

I assume the distance runners aren't very good, and the sprinters are actually pretty fast. If your distance runners were good and winning races they would have some respect. If the distance runners were good and putting up fast times some people would be sticking around to watch. I imagine people would be interested in seeing someone run a 4:15 1600.

I was my high school and college team's best distance runner, but most of the distance runners were not very good. There was a noticeable difference how other people on the team would interact with me versus the slower distance runners. If you compete well, you will get some respect.

As far as "recruitment" to the program--make your group the place to be internally and from outside the program. Do destination easy or long days at a beautiful park or beach. Breakfast runs on the weekend hosted by a parent. Make your guys/gals the envy of all. Running doesnt have to be dull. MD and distance runners have options that sprinters do not. That will turn that razzing into pure jealousy. But this requires effort.

If one of your runners can break 4 and get some media attention, it will turn the tables.

Wow, the running version of Al Bundy. It’s an honor to meet you but I feel so bad for Kelly :(

Then why haven’t you sent the throwers after the sprinters? Guessing some of the throwers are football players as well. No WR or RB is messing with a lineman.

In all seriousness, you can say something to the sprinters. May or may not help. Who cares about the cheering. Always tough to get a crowd for the 3200 at a normal meet. Dead weight will always get picked on though, so until the distance team gets better they will just get looked at as taking up space on the bus.