How to get out of the 4x8 (already had a talk with coach)

Look I'm not reading this past the rating but the troll beat you fair and square

Op, maybe you can get this other high school aged runner to fill in for you:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8759801

Finally decided to read through this thread.

This is just jamin, right?

Seriously, grow up. Never would I purposely not run hard in a race if my coach asked me to step up. I don't care if you are the best on your team and the team will do bad, run the relay. You are not good enough to override your coach and say what you will be running. Shut up and run it hard.

Pissed off 800/1600 guy wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

not bloody likely.

All that guff about the coach is in charge, and wrong attitude, goes nowhere after a lie like that. Start by saying PR's aren't everything, maybe.

Thank you Wigins. You get a lot of sh2t on here but I actually I agree with basically everything you say. You've got some supporters they're just drowned out by the CNN-watching idiots

There goes your poker face.

No freshman throws out "CNN" references.

Further, no freshman would be keyed into the nuances of one, Bad Wiggins.

man up and run the relay. You have ten more years to run an individual PR. Listen to your coach and run for your team as long as you have the two.

how with 206 and 440 pb's is this one of your only opportunities to run fast, any meet you go to should have good competition

Pissed off 800/1600 dude wrote:

P.S. track is an individual sport. My effort does not affect other people's splits.

Your coach must be a very patient man.

Dude, you're not very good. Just run what your coach says and give it 100%.

Pissed off 800/1600 dude wrote:

I was entered in the open 800 this Saturday (large invitational, good place to run fast) when two kids on the 4x8 scratched and said they weren't going to the meet. Naturally, my coach decides not to just drop the 4x8 team but instead decides to put me and another kid on (both of us were looking to run PRs in our respective main events, this is one of the only opportunities we have all season to run fast). We both talked to him, saying we weren't going to try and that there was no point in running it, and he decided to be a hardass and didn't budge. How do I get out of this?

This isn't a troll

-your token high school 2:06/4:40 guy

You are an 800m runner but don't want to run the 800m? Sounds like you're just be a whiny little high schooler. Maybe your 800m team is garbage because too many on your team takes such a dismissive attitude for the sport you do. I hated the 4 x 800m, and I wish I could have those days back.

C'mon people be smarter, this is all pure BS/trolling at it's finest.

I give him a 9/10 for getting so many reactions.

My daughter is in the same boat as you except she is actually top in the state in her individual events. Her coach has her running the 4 by 8 the 4by 4 and the 1600 and the 800. She will be racing at states against girls who have fresh legs and didn’t run the 4 by 8 or didn’t run as many events. However, she is only a freshman and at this point I have told her it is about the team. So she will do her best and next year she can have a talk with him ahead of time about how she can maximize her results and have some races where she can race on fresh legs. At the end of the day you’re on a team and what your coach says goes. If you don’t like it you can do what my daughter will do if she keeps having to run so many races - do aau track new balance outdoors if you qualify etc.

This kid better shoot down any dream of running in college, because this sh*t wouldn't fly there. He'd be given two options: run what he is told to run or leave the team.

On the off chance that this isn't some poor troll with nothing better to do than make stories up on message boards, I think there's one final point nobody else has mentioned. If you are getting SERIOUSLY recruited, college coaches will ask your HS coach about you. It's not just about how fast you can run, even if that's the primary factor. It's about your grit, your effort, your loyalty to the team, your intangible traits that have made you a great runner and will make you a great addition to the team. They want to hear how you tripled in a meet within 5 hours in a 800/1600/3200 triple and didn't complain, didn't PR, but worked your ass off in every race. They want to hear about that one time in that one race you were super far back and came from behind to win it on sheer will. They want to hear about the race you ran with the flu in regionals to get your team to states.

Bottom line: You want your coach to like you, but more importantly you want your coach to respect you. Respect is a two way street. Getting recruited is more than being fast. If you love running and racing, you'll do it because it's fun and you love competing, not to get recruited. The fast times will come with more hard work, which you've already put in. Try to fix your attitude before they do.

OP is a little punk. Just quit and train yourself how you see fit if that's how you want to be.

And the giveaway. 5/10.

The great Jim Ryun would do anything his coach asked him as well as running in the relays because he was FAST. Not some average whiny dude, but among the best in the world, ever.

If this isn't a troll as a coach they would run or be gone, simple as that. Can't have this discontentment and negativity infecting the team. See ya.

And for the runner who gets the boot, then to make your point train on your own and run as unattached if you can. But in the end and years from now none of this will matter in the least except for the silliness of it all.

David Hogg comes to LR and wins!

Good point formerrecruit. I know a very fast kid that ran 4:12 and went nowhere because he got into so much trouble in HS that nobody would touch him. Being a great teammember is important especially in cross country.