I finished my season already (seventh grade) and I made a name for myself always scoring points. My events were the 3200 and 1600 so my question is, would it be too much too add the 800 of 4x400 on there? Next year I'll be in eight grade and my coaches will be depending on me even more but they always say it's my choice for what to race. What do you think?
800 *OR* 4x400
No more than two distance races in one meet.
In most states that is a HS rule.
I would only do two of the 32, 16, and 8. You can add the 4x4 as a third event if you want.
Oh wow in our district for middle school you can do 3 of any events in one meet.
It depends on what your training is like. If your doing high mileage and a lot of workouts do less races or if you have a duel meet every Tuesday and Thursday like we did in PA do 4 events because you're not going to be training hard on the days before each of those meets which means you only have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to train. So basically race yourself into shape. at the invitationals and championship meets do your best event.
I always did 4 events sometimes I even ran the 400 right after the 1600 then later an 800 then 3200 , but I usually did 4x8, 1600, 800, 3200/4x4
Dar10 wrote:
I finished my season already (seventh grade) and I made a name for myself always scoring points. My events were the 3200 and 1600 so my question is, would it be too much too add the 800 of 4x400 on there? Next year I'll be in eight grade and my coaches will be depending on me even more but they always say it's my choice for what to race. What do you think?
I did 4 events in high school starting in the 10th grade. It's a lot. Three can be a lot.
The focus in 8th grade shouldn't be on your coach winning meets at the expense of over racing his athletes.
How long is your season? If its only 3 or 4 meets, I wouldn't be too concerned with overracing. Do as many as you want as long as your having fun. If its longer than that, I would two at most at a meet.
Dar10 wrote:
Oh wow in our district for middle school you can do 3 of any events in one meet.
Yes, in many states the oversight and regulation of high school athletics is stronger than middle school athletics (for which there is rarely a state governing body and therefore usually no restrictions on practice times, etc.).
Goal in middle school should be long term development. I don't know anybody who would intentionally run three distance races in one day if long term development is the goal.
I would do just two events; either 3200 with 4x4 as a lactic acid threshold workout after 32, or 1600 with 800 or 4x4 for speed. 4 races will burn you out and prevent you from improving in an area. If better at shorter distance do 16 with one of the other two or if better at 3200 focus on that. You could stay doing 32 and 16, but focus on one and do the other as warmup or post race workout.