Can someone please explain why colleges run events at their meets that won't mean anything? The 300m, the 500m, 600m, 1000... why? Even if you break the world record, it will not get you to the NCAA championship meet. Is that what it is all about during indoor???
If you need this for training, then do it during training. Educate me please.
look at the events that are run at the big 12 indoor championships. does that enlighten your internet knowledge. now go get a clue and maybe study why a football team runs 7 on 7. they never play 7 on 7 in a real game?? they could score the most touchdowns in a practice session and nobody will really ever know.. that is just crazy right
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Mid distance runners love indoor track
In conferences from smaller divisions, particularly D3, they run multiple events to get more people involved.
I'm not sure that's really the reason. At IC4As, which is a huge meet with high quality D-1 teams, they run the 500 and 1000, for example.
Why run a 60 instead of a 100? Because indoor is preparation for outdoor.
Track meets used to be 300, 500, 600, 1000, 3000, DMR. All events that prepare for outdoor. Then in this era of "specialization" indoor changed to mirror outdoor events. So you have holdovers. And you have December meets that are really just glorified practices in uniform.
I don't understand the conferences that choose to have the 400, 500, 800, 1000, 4x8 and dmr.
I think that you're right at the elite level and in the south and west, but in the east and midwest, outdoor is a crap shoot and you can go the w tire outdoor season and maybe end up with one meet with both good weather and good competition.
Don't get me wrong, I hated indoor; but I knew what I was going to get out of it and it provided me with consistent opportunities to get in good races.
Most events don't mean anything. A tiny, tiny, per cent of collegiate track athletes have a chance to get to Nationals. If going to Nationals was the point almost everyone would quit. All of those distances provide opportunities to compete.