For the love of god and all things holy, stop this practice. Coaches dump their slowest girls into the 3200 and then humiliate them into slogging through 8 painful disgraceful laps, only to receive the pity clap at the end of some 16 min effort.
This doesn't help the runner, it certainly does not endear her to the sport. I cant help but think their parents must dread every race.
Put them in the 800 or 400, heck even the 1600, but stop with the 3200.. please for all of us.
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But how else will they run off the pounds?
EZ10Miler wrote:
For the love of god and all things holy, stop this practice. Coaches dump their slowest girls into the 3200 and then humiliate them into slogging through 8 painful disgraceful laps, only to receive the pity clap at the end of some 16 min effort.
This doesn't help the runner, it certainly does not endear her to the sport. I cant help but think their parents must dread every race.
Put them in the 800 or 400, heck even the 1600, but stop with the 3200.. please for all of us.
Happens at youth meets too.
Also the mile.
Also boys.
They must stop. I have no idea why they do it. Hard for everyone.
EZ10Miler wrote:
For the love of god and all things holy, stop this practice. Coaches dump their slowest girls into the 3200 and then humiliate them into slogging through 8 painful disgraceful laps, only to receive the pity clap at the end of some 16 min effort.
This doesn't help the runner, it certainly does not endear her to the sport. I cant help but think their parents must dread every race.
Put them in the 800 or 400, heck even the 1600, but stop with the 3200.. please for all of us.
I seriously think you should be sticking your less developed distance runners in the 400/800m, the shorter the event, the more technical it gets, but it’s also a lot harder to really embarrass yourself in those events.
I had my time as the chubby distance kid in early highschool who would DFL occasionally during XC/3200m, but I could still put up a 400m in 63-64 and an 800m in 2:35-2:40 which aren’t times worth bragging about but you never have to deal with the humiliation of being in last place by 2-3 minutes and getting triple lapped by the leaders. Probably only could’ve ran about 15:30 my freshman year and 13:30 my sophomore year. Once an got fit enough that I could be getting under 12:00 and 11:00 I felt so much more comfortable racing the 3200m. With everyone kind of annoyed that there’s a 20:00 long 3200m heat that could’ve been a 14:00 heat if you would remove 2-3 people, and the self consciousness that runs rampant in highschool, it’s so embarrassing and it genuinely drives some newer athletes away from the sport.
Sweating to the oldies wrote:
But how else will they run off the pounds?
They should absolutely be able to participate... in practice. I tell my wife every track meet (which she really appreciates) that the coaches should have minimums for participating in meets for the longer events.
Honestly, how proud would those kids be if they actually earned the right to participate, knowing that they're showing legitimate improvement. They're never going to win the race, so they may as well have something truly important to shoot for.
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