How fast to run for Wake Forest?

need to be able to beat Heppenstall in the mile - that is the minimum standard.

not fast

acc worst wrote:

not fast

Worst than bc?

Do you think I could walk on with a 4:30?

A better question is why hasn't John Hayes (and Brad Hunt before) been able to get the distance area rocking at a place like Wake Forest with great academics and fully-funded?

As someone who was in your shoes not all that long ago, I have a few words of advice:

1. Contact the coach, preferably by email, and see if he'll give you a "tryout" of sorts - allow you to come a few days before school starts and see if you can hang with the team.

2. Run on your own and post as fast a time as you can in a particular event. If you were to run 4:00, say, in the mile, the coach will almost without question let you walk on. You just need to find the tipping point between 4:00 and 4:30 that will nab you a spot on the team.

CuriousAthlete wrote:

I read somewhere that 4:20 is their walk on standard for the mile, but I looked at them of TFFRS and saw most of their freshman were running mid 4:30s to high 4:20s.

There are many threads on LRC about this. The net is that coaches put out these walk on standards to avoid spending all day reading and answering emails from 4:2X and slower guys.

They are NOT fully funded.

You might want to give Hayes more than 5 minutes to turn the program around.

So are you saying they would stick to those standards? Or they just want to have less of them come out for the team. The majority of there freshman can't hit the standards tho. So they either regressed or never could.

short paul wrote:

They are NOT fully funded.

If you're not going to have a full track team. Just distance, you don't need close to full funding. 10 scholarships for both programs should do it!

If you get into Wake without assistance, then run say 4:22, by all means contact the coach before you decide if you're going.