[quote]No, No They Don't wrote:
Not sure what school records you are looking at, but every school around here converts between imperial and metric records. /quote]
My 2.5 mile cross country school record (12:28) will last an eternity!!
[quote]No, No They Don't wrote:
Not sure what school records you are looking at, but every school around here converts between imperial and metric records. /quote]
My 2.5 mile cross country school record (12:28) will last an eternity!!
Now they are building 300m indoor tracks and still running the 800, 1600, and 3200.
Hardloper wrote:
not their choice wrote:
You understand that high school runners don't really choose which event to run, right? High school runners race the 1600m because that is the event that is contested at high school meets. They would be DQed if they ran the 1500m instead.
No sh!t, what makes you think he doesn't understand that? Thanks captain obvious.
Read the actual question. The OP asked why high schoolers race the 1600m, not why the governing bodies of high school athletics have selected that distance.