Coach put me on JV after one bad race

gregtucker wrote:

The same thing happen to me when I was in HS, but for a different reason. I was the 3rd guy on our varsity but I got really sick one week with the flu. I came back the next week and my coach told me to go to the JV meet and skip the varsity one.

I smoked everyone in the JV meet even after coming off a week of being sick and no training, so you should be able to do the same. It was a huge morale boost for me and motivated me to work my ass off to get my varsity spot back.

Bad races happen and it can cause a setback, but just keep putting in the mileage and effort. Good things happen to those who work for it and are able to see the bigger picture.

Same happened to me when I was a SO. I got sick right before Stanford, and my coach threw me on JV at the next dual meet, and since I was the highest finisher with a faster time than the Varsity 7th, I got my spot back. I think i finished the year 5/6 for my team. My coach had a policy that if you won a JV dual meet, or finished top 10 in JV invitationals then you automatically took out the 7th spot. I still love this idea--our 6th through 10th in high school were excellent and very competitive for this reason.

OP: when you get to that 2nd mile, start working harder than you ever have before and make good choices during that final stretch of the race. You'll be successful.

That sucks...you can't even have just one bad race without getting demoted to JV. Imagine in H.S. football if the starting QB, who earned the job, was benched for ONE bad game. Just amazed at this...coaches think they're out of sight. 😝

Fed-Up With H.S. Coaches wrote:

That sucks...you can't even have just one bad race without getting demoted to JV. Imagine in H.S. football if the starting QB, who earned the job, was benched for ONE bad game. Just amazed at this...coaches think they're out of sight. 😝

Ok analogy if there were several backup quarterbacks who were always nearly as good as the starter who came into the same game and started throwing touchdowns.

Get some fight in you OP! Terry Bradshaw, HoF QB had to battle Phil Robertson in college for starting QB job.Terry Bradshaw had to battle Joe Gilliam for starting QB job for Steelers in NFL. It's not even late September! You have five to seven weeks to prove yourself this XC season.

You would have been ok with 3 or 5 ounces of black coffee.

8/10 troll post.

We can be 99% sure it's a troll because it talks about letsrun favorite trigger-subject: Jilling-Off. And reinforces our stereotypes that kids today world rather complain than run faster.

Decent Effort wrote:

8/10 troll post.

We can be 99% sure it's a troll because it talks about letsrun favorite trigger-subject: Jilling-Off. And reinforces our stereotypes that kids today world rather complain than run faster.

No way. 3/10 and only for number of responses. This terrible trolling effort is emblematic of the decline in overall trolling and illustrates the complete lack of appreciation for what the craft used to be.

No question it does hurt one's ego being moved to the J.V. But in our sport you are not relegated to the bench. Get tough and prove that you belong in the varsity by racing tough. I assume that the J.V. race runs on the same course over the same distance that the varsity runs. I remember being angry when I had to run J.V. in my first invitational as a soph. I vowed that I would never run J.V. again and I didn't. If I could give my 16 year old self one message I would say "Try harder."

The great thing about this sport is the times don't lie. If 7 other people ran faster than you, then they are in better shape and deserve varsity. Focus next week, run a top 7 time and your place on varsity shall be restored your padawan.

This is how it was at my high school and how it should be everywhere. No politics, just hard fact about who is in best shape right now.

The advice is..... run better!

This is kind of obvious? We don't know if you just had a bad race or if you're actually just not better than last year. Hopefully you'll get it together next time.

But, I mean, what else do you want us to say? You probably don't need to train harder (that's what summer was for, and it's too late now) or do anything differently.

Ed Whitlock could make your team the day he died.

Once you start beating off and blowing races, it's the beginning of the end. Your coach knows that, probably seen it before with guys faster than you that wank even less.

you need to swallow...

The Carnatine !

bstan1062 wrote:

My bad that was a typo, they ran sub 20 pr's except one ran very low 20's. but yes i see what you're saying i would feel crappy too but it was a single bad race i dont think its fair to kick someone without talking to them, this isn't a huge program and we all a supposedly personal relationship with our coach

Sonny Jim.

Suck it up. Running is a competitive sport. There are only so many lanes on a track, seats on a bus, and positions in the varsity races.

The answer for you is to stop sulking and start working harder, and racing harder. You should be happy that the coach is not playing personalities, and is aligning everyone based on their times. Until you once again become one of the top 7, you are outside the top 7.

The answer is run faster, and hope you run fast enough. Clearly the rest of your team mates are making progress. Stop crying.

Important to put yourself in your coach's shoes. He's not trying to punish you, but for ways to give promising JV runners a chance to shine. That's good coaching. He will be as happy as you are when you have a big PR this week.

do coaches ever really "put" anyone on JV????? it is all about times on our team. whoever has the fastest times is on varsity. you are the 7th fastest runner on the team? you are varsity?? am i right?

Just be happy you're at a school so small where sub 20 even puts you on a roster spot on JV. Be better; not bitter.

vgfghjkkhg wrote:

Decent Effort wrote:

8/10 troll post.

We can be 99% sure it's a troll because it talks about letsrun favorite trigger-subject: Jilling-Off. And reinforces our stereotypes that kids today world rather complain than run faster.

No way. 3/10 and only for number of responses. This terrible trolling effort is emblematic of the decline in overall trolling and illustrates the complete lack of appreciation for what the craft used to be.

he did a nice job "trying" to sound like a hs kid...his use of the verb "established" in one of the responses was where he faltered...

I wish that times don't lie. My daughter has all of the varsity distance records in track for our school when she was a 7th grader, all of the varsity course records in XC for our school when she was an 8th grader and now that she's a freshman in high school, the coach put her back in freshman races. The saddest thing that the fastest varsity girl is about 1 min 42s slower than her AND she is the ONLY freshman on our team...so, she doesn't even have a team to run with. There are no sophomores either and there doesn't seem to be any female runners in modified. We barely have 5 bodies on the varsity team and yet she cannot make the team.

Go figure. We picked this sport because there aren't supposed to be any politics but clearly that's not the case.