300m race for a distance runner

Have her do Speed Work and just try it out I guess, unless she is a very serious distance runner. Mostly in my early HS years I wasn't even a specilazier in the 5k but ran well in the 10k and Half, and I actually won a few 400-800m races. I agree though, that doesn't add up.

During the Track season I still mostly did speed work and only ran those times at the very end of the Track Season where the bulk of my training was speed and I wasn't racing on the road. To come back when she is an Endurance runner and have her do a 300m like that sounds weird. Maybe you should ask the coach about it? I dunno

how about you just let the coach take care of coaching, and you just be a supportive parent? ever think of that? tool.

You're concerned she's gonna flare up the achilles?

My excellent high school coaches sometimes had cross country runners in sprint relays. It was fun for us, even though we would never have entered them on our own. Perhaps that is what your daughter's coach is thinking.

As a one time running kid, then parent of now grown kids, I really think that sports and other school activities should be the child's world or experiences, lessons and challenges, with minimal parental interference. Work on making your child's home life better and more meaningful. Her coach won't do that, but he/she will work with her as a runner. You have a much larger and different role at home.

it's possible the coach wants a baseline measurement from which to do workouts.

You have a kid in high school, yet you cannot form a complete sentence. Trust me, you have bigger problems.

Well she should last the distance

Maybe she will be good at it - what harm can it do?

A little scenario for you: Elias Gedyon is injured at the end of cross country. His coach wants him to take time off to heal, run for about 2 weeks, then race a 400. He gets injured. How do you respond?

As others have said, a coach will sometimes race a distance athlete over 300-400 in early meets. A single 300 is probably not much of an issue, and definitely easier on the achilles than a 600 fast (much more fast running around curves) would be.

Achilles injuries are often caused by too much too soon in terms of speed training. Some strides a couple of times a week until the race might be indicated here, but I would not push speed beyond this to avoid flare-ups of previous achilles and knee issues.

ya..... wrote:

A little scenario for you: Elias Gedyon is injured at the end of cross country. His coach wants him to take time off to heal, run for about 2 weeks, then race a 400. He gets injured. How do you respond?

Hey, whats that got to do with the price of fish?

Don't race if you are injured

coach d wrote:

As others have said, a coach will sometimes race a distance athlete over 300-400 in early meets. A single 300 is probably not much of an issue, and definitely easier on the achilles than a 600 fast (much more fast running around curves) would be.

Achilles injuries are often caused by too much too soon in terms of speed training. Some strides a couple of times a week until the race might be indicated here, but I would not push speed beyond this to avoid flare-ups of previous achilles and knee issues.

You know nothing about sprinting. How many people have pulled something in a distance race? Now count how many in a sprint race? You can injure yourself with a single 100 meter sprint easily.

Exactly my point, and the OP's. She was injured just weeks ago, and now her coach wants her to run a 300?? That's just ridiculous.