So You Didn't Run Again This Summer - Why?

Interesting. Out of the millions of English speaking people around the globe who have access to letsrun, you are the poster who had no road racing XC teammates. You are full of it if you are going to try to tell me that ALL fifteen to twenty-five runners on your high school XC team were also 400 metre and 800 metre athletes. I've been reading letsrun post for about five years. There so many letsrun posters stating they are/were unable to race sub-60 400m but you are going to tell me every swing d*ck on your high school XC team is/was ask/asked to race 400 metres and 800 metres during T&F? You are not telling the truth!

Seconded. That was a very bizarre post.

The common high school XC runner: wrote:

Interesting. Out of the millions of English speaking people around the globe who have access to letsrun, you are the poster who had no road racing XC teammates. You are full of it if you are going to try to tell me that ALL fifteen to twenty-five runners on your high school XC team were also 400 metre and 800 metre athletes. I've been reading letsrun post for about five years. There so many letsrun posters stating they are/were unable to race sub-60 400m but you are going to tell me every swing d*ck on your high school XC team is/was ask/asked to race 400 metres and 800 metres during T&F? You are not telling the truth!

Where in my first post did I say that my teammates were 400/800 runners? I never even mentioned the 400 in my post. All my XC teammates ran track in the spring. We were all mainly 1600/3200 runners, but of course the best of us also ran the 4x800. I know, a huge shocker that the best 1600/3200 guys would also be good at the 800. And where did I say that my teammates never ran road races? Sure we did some in the summer and winter, but no one skipped the spring track season to do road races.

I have access to Athletic.net as do you. Out of the fifteen to twenty-five guys on high school XC, maybe 30% to 40% go out of T&F on average. So lie #1. It's impossible for all of your XC teammates to race 400s & 800s if only about 1/3 are on the track & field team. Lie #2. Not all of your high school XC teammates who do decide to participate in T&F are asked to race 400s & 800s. This is my last post on this thread.

The common high school XC runner: wrote:

I have access to Athletic.net as do you. Out of the fifteen to twenty-five guys on high school XC, maybe 30% to 40% go out of T&F on average. So lie #1. It's impossible for all of your XC teammates to race 400s & 800s if only about 1/3 are on the track & field team. Lie #2. Not all of your high school XC teammates who do decide to participate in T&F are asked to race 400s & 800s. This is my last post on this thread.

You don't know what you're talking about. Most XC athletes don't do track because XC is a social club and they don't care about training hard. NONE of them are running road 5Ks and half marathons.

The more serious ones who do run track tend to run anything from 400 to 3200 and yes, they often run 1600 and 3200 in the same meet, sometimes multiple times per week.

You are very strange.

Out of the fifteen to twenty-five guys on high school XC, maybe 30% to 40% go out of T&F on average. So lie #1. [/quote]

You believe only 30 to 40 percent of XC runners go out for track? When I was in high school it was pretty much 100 percent. Certainly no less than 90. Maybe that's not typical but no way is 40 percent the norm.

It's impossible for all of your XC teammates to race 400s & 800s if only about 1/3 are on the track & field team. Lie #2.[/quote]

How does that make any sense? We usually had about 10 meets per season. Even with a team of 20 distance runners who focus mainly on 1600/3200, there are still plenty of opportunities to hop in a 400 or 800 between the 4x800, medley, open 400, open 800, and 4x400. It's not like all 20 guys can do the 1600/3200 every meet.

Not all of your high school XC teammates who do decide to participate in T&F are asked to race 400s & 800s.[/quote]

Actually, from my experience, every single one of the 20 or so distance runners on the track team were asked to an 800 at least a few times during the season. Again, between the 4x800, medley, and open 800, this was not hard to do.

If they are running when will they play video games?

Why can’t u do both?

Richard Gozinya wrote:

Imagine you are a teenager again...What's more fun in the summer? Running or trying to get with members of the opposite sex?

/thread

But why not both? you don't spend the entire day running

The common high school XC runner: wrote:

The common high school XC runner: Option 1) Races 5K to 1/2 Marathon road races November through August. Option 2) Races 1600m &/or 3200m during high school t&f. Never races both 1600m and 3200m in same meet. Never races on a relay except the one relay invitational 4x1600m relay.

There are 400/800 athletes who gave 100% during T&F. They raced 200m relay legs when asked to do so by a coach. They raced at least two events every meet. They have muscle/tendon strains which need to heal. Often the 400/800 athletes do not run from June 7th through August 15th.

Be happy to have the 400/800 athletes as XC teammates.

That’s bull. I’m not sure what school you go to, but freshmen do at the minimum 2 events per meet, upperclassmen do at least 3, and good runners do the “Big Four” of the 800, 1600, 3200, and 4x800 every meet. Every runner who did the “big four” in track end up taking a break until the first week in June and then start back training for XC. There is no need for anyone to need 2 months of no running to recover from wear and tear.

Is it normal for a parent to do workouts with the team? My son knows about some about this parents of his running accomplishments and I think he is hearing it first hand from the other kid's dad during practice. I don't want to make a problem unnecessarily at all. I appreciate adult leadership of my kids outside the family, but I watch my kids closely and this one feels kind of red flagish to me.

If he was volunteering as court marshall or to drive or something that's seems fine, but this other closer arrangement surprises me.

NEWXCDAD wrote:

Is it normal for a parent to do workouts with the team? My son knows about some about this parents of his running accomplishments and I think he is hearing it first hand from the other kid's dad during practice. I don't want to make a problem unnecessarily at all. I appreciate adult leadership of my kids outside the family, but I watch my kids closely and this one feels kind of red flagish to me.

If he was volunteering as court marshall or to drive or something that's seems fine, but this other closer arrangement surprises me.

This is one of the most incoherent posts I've ever seen. I have no idea what you are trying to say.

because I was busyyyyyyy