Does my team suck?

High School Running Distance

9 years ago 04/19/2015 8:02pm EDT

I'm a HS frosh and I'm running my first track season, but the times I see our top guys running aren't up to par with what you read about the really good HS runners doing. Our fastest 800m runner has a PR of about 1:57. Fastest miler runs a 4:39, and fastest 3200 is a 10:01 or so. These are all seniors and state qualifiers from last year. We still place consistently at meets and it seems like these times are around the top in our part of the country (northeast Kansas).

I have heard that Kansas as a whole isn't as fast as most other states in cross/track, but how does this stack up against other schools across the country?

9 years ago 04/19/2015 8:08pm EDT

re: tracknoob

Definitely doesn't suck. Don't think all schools are as fast as the NXN type schools.

9 years ago 04/19/2015 8:33pm EDT

re: tracknoob

That's decent. As a 1500 person school, we had a 1:58 and 1:59 guy, a 4:35 and a few 4:42-48 milers, and a 9:49 two-miler, followed by like 10:15 and then 10:30 guys. Won Conference in XC for a few years in a row with roughly 6-10 sub 17 5k-ers and were 3rd, 2nd, or 1st in track all four years I was there.

So you guys don't suck, it usually just takes luck to get some 1:54 or 4:20 guy to end up attending your high school at the same time as you.

9 years ago 04/19/2015 9:32pm EDT

re: tracknoob

far from it. The vast majority of schools don't have a sub-2 800 guy or a 10min 2miler.

Now if your next best guys are running 2:10 and 10:40 then that's not great, but overall that doesn't sound like a bad squad at all.

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