you were in the wrong sport wrote:
But these all-state, all-american swimmers cant hop on the track and break 6, let alone 5 even as juniors and seniors. Maybe the whole swim team at my schools are exceptions to your rule, but i think your off on this one. PS soccer players are even worse. We won the national high school soccer title a while back, and demolishing the soccer team in the gym class mile was great fun!
I call bullshit. I routinely got put in the two mile in high school to get a extra point or two in dual meets. Even though I trained primarily as a sprinter, and did mostly long and high jump, I could easily pop a sub-12 2 mile. My only distance training in high school was - swimming.