There is a local high school runner in my neighborhood who is only in 10th grade and he is running 100 miles a week! Will he be elite one day?
There is a local high school runner in my neighborhood who is only in 10th grade and he is running 100 miles a week! Will he be elite one day?
He's a liar, so it's possible
Ammar Mousa's little brother is a freshman doing somewhat of 80 mpw I believe. Goes the Arcadia high school
Maybe he will be like Dean Karnezezez one day.
Elite101 wrote:
My son is a high school runner who is only in 10th grade and he is running 100 miles a week! Will he be elite one day?
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Elite101 wrote:
There is a local high school runner in my neighborhood who is only in 10th grade and he is running 100 miles a week! Will he be elite one day?
Glad to hear it. Sounds like what we all did in the mid/late 70s. He may turn out to be another Jeff Nelson who was doing upwards of 135-140mpw his senior season.
Old Timer Weighs In wrote:
Glad to hear it. Sounds like what we all did in the mid/late 70s. He may turn out to be another Jeff Nelson who was doing upwards of 135-140mpw his senior season.
Now tell the rest of the story:
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-11/sports/sp-308_1_state-titleAnother waste of talent by the mileage obsessed.
He should probably be focusing more on quickness rather than developing his slow-twitch muscles to being even slower. Great way to ruin a potential future as a good runner. Kid should wait until he is grown and has an ability to close a race fast rather than barely break 60 sec for a quarter - rested.
Ruday Chapa ran 100 miles a week as a junior and senior in HS
he was elite...for awhile
Jeff?
coach d wrote:
Now tell the rest of the story:
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-11/sports/sp-308_1_state-titleAnother waste of talent by the mileage obsessed.
I wouldn't say it was a waste of talent. He did what he did when he did it. Not every one is meant to be a professional runner, regardless of their talent early on.
Sigmund wrote:
Ruday Chapa ran 100 miles a week as a junior and senior in HS
he was elite...for awhile
120 most weeks his sr yr.
Its spelled Karnazeseseseseses
What pace are these HS runners running that much in? Slow?
big deal. I did 100mpw the summer after my freshman year
As long as the runner isn't being forced into doing the 100 miles a week, then it's fine. I think more talent in this country gets destroyed by too many intervals (I know of a 8th grade girl who does intervals 4-5 days a week at her track club). I don't think I would have a runner that young doing 100 miles per week, but obviously he knows his limits better than I do.
I'd be more concerned about a HS that has so little going in his life that all he wants to do is run 100mpw.
I too ran 100 mpw after my freshman year. When I started, I stunk, freshman girls in my own school could beat me. I never got hurt and before I knew it most of those miles were at just over 6:00 pace. When I finished, I was top 5 for a top 20 caliber D3 school.
The reason most 10th grade runners run 100 mpw is that they are trying to find out if they can be good. The vast majority can't but at least they know that something as simple as running more wouldn't have helped.
How about 35 mpw and a social life?
i doubt all you people ran 100 a week in high school, probably the same mentality as Gerry Lindgren, did you guys do 40 mile long runs for your 100 mile weeks? yea didnt think so, 100/week is useless in high school for the most part