1% of the kids have raced twice and 2% have raced once. It is easy to check the facts. The other 98% won’t race until February or March. So no, there are no kids who are racing twice per week.
1% of the kids have raced twice and 2% have raced once. It is easy to check the facts. The other 98% won’t race until February or March. So no, there are no kids who are racing twice per week.
Check the stats wrote:
1% of the kids have raced twice and 2% have raced once. It is easy to check the facts. The other 98% won’t race until February or March. So no, there are no kids who are racing twice per week.
Check yet own facts dumbas$. I race twice a week. Invites usually once and relay meets usually once. If you look at the pics you'll see because the relays don't post indivs.
Now please apologize to the next plant you see for wasting all the oxygen you breathe.
Which school would that be that has raced more than twice this season or maybe 4 times as you are insinuating? We all like to be educated not insulted. Many of us coach and are parents and none of our teams have competed more than twice yet. You are obviously oblivious to the face that the majority of the country has not even thought about track yet.
Mikeh33 wrote:
maybe it's not the coach wrote:
Maybe your kid is just having a down year. So take that into consideration instead of just blaming everything on the coach which is the easy thing to do. Maybe your daughter just can't cut it or maybe she is hitting that point that many hit and that is the point of decline or maybe it really is the coach. But the easy thing to do is to blame someone else.
Point of decline? She’s a Junior in high school! No one just “declines” in high school, absent some sort of problem.
Uhmm, ever heard of puberty?
Hips McGee wrote:
Mikeh33 wrote:
Point of decline? She’s a Junior in high school! No one just “declines” in high school, absent some sort of problem.
Uhmm, ever heard of puberty?
Umm, ever heard of overtraining?
Which school wrote:
Which school would that be that has raced more than twice this season or maybe 4 times as you are insinuating? We all like to be educated not insulted. Many of us coach and are parents and none of our teams have competed more than twice yet. You are obviously oblivious to the face that the majority of the country has not even thought about track yet.
Our teams have had 6 meets with the 7th coming up this weekend at the armory. Don't know where you are located but our kids took 2 weeks off after FL NE, then started their meets. Not everyone runs every meet and we switch up their events.
To the OP, sorry that happened but girls change. Many times the quickest girls on teams are freshmen and sophmores. BTW we practice 3x/week on track race twice, 1 street run and I tell them to do their long runs on the trails. Many teams run more on the track even if it's tempo so they can keep an eye on them. Also a great point was made about checking blood levels.
LR researcher wrote:
I couldn't find a junior who ran similar times as a soph that has run slower this season. Most of the facts are probably fabricated.
Amen . Story doesn’t pass the smell test ,
Hounddogharrier wrote:
LR researcher wrote:
I couldn't find a junior who ran similar times as a soph that has run slower this season. Most of the facts are probably fabricated.
Amen . Story doesn’t pass the smell test ,
Plot twist: OP is actually talking about a male, i.e. himself.
BergLaufer wrote:
Plot twist: OP is actually talking about a male, i.e. himself.
hahahaha, perfect. Either that, or there are two all-American boys on the team and he wants his daughter to be better than she is and is disappointed that he can't live out his dreams through her.
Where?
Most schools don't even start track until February. Where they have indoor track, most would run once in December.
Great Oak's schedule:
Correct, kind of normal. Also very stupid. Majority of high school track coaches are morons knowing nothing of training. I’ll give you a hint, Junior - read anything by exercise physiologists Tudor Bompa. Bill Bowerman did pretty well following Bompa’s guidelines.
Smart thing to do would be the "dog" the w9orkouts if she's mature enough to do that without upsetting the coach and letting him know what you're up to and then on the weekends you run hard you look like a
person who struggles with workouts but Rises to the top in the races this way you avoid getting burned out but it's a plan she would have to keep between herself and you and not involve anybody on the team or the coach.
It is December and you're worried about not running PR's from last year right now. Track just started, did she get good base mileage this fall? Track season has barely been happening, it's not the coach's fault. Hopefully one of the track workouts is a longer one and it can be taken at a slightly lower effort, and act as somewhat of a lighter day for your daughter. Then it'd be 4 harder days in a week, 2 easy, and 1 medium.
Could we get an idea of what the 4 weekly workouts look like in addition to what she races typically on Saturdays?
FrenchDawg wrote:
Kind of normal wrote:
OP, were you a high school T&F athlete? Four track workouts a week is normal for a high school T&F program. I'm assuming you read the jogging books sold at B&N. I guess you do one track workout a week one or two months a year and jog slowly the rest of the time.
OP, disregard this absolute BS.
Correct answer, two workouts a week (including a race) is all you need if developing. Can push to 3 with one race as long as one workout is of a moderate intensity and part of a periodised block. 4 workouts plus race is negligent in my opinion.
Point of decline? She’s a Junior in high school! No one just “declines” in high school, absent some sort of problem.
My experience as a HS Track coach is that the junior year for girls often is a time of decline due to maturational change in body weight distribution and some other hormonal things. Can see it in boys but usually in girls.
Thank you for your post. Too often we see the OP being the subject of abuse rather than some focus
on their question. It's gratifying that someone else sees this conflict the way I do. LRC is better because
of your post.
peehole wrote:
BergLaufer wrote:
Plot twist: OP is actually talking about a male, i.e. himself.
hahahaha, perfect. Either that, or there are two all-American boys on the team and he wants his daughter to be better than she is and is disappointed that he can't live out his dreams through her.
We do not need the above on LRC. Stick to answering the question.
Just because you have coached for a long time does not mean you should not change what you do .
I am retired from coaching and I was the opposite of you in that we spent less time than that on the track.
But the longer I coached the more speed endurance I added to our schedule. Unfortunately I was
unaware of how important speed development is for both XC and T&F.
I still feel that what is missing from a program is what you should add. You need to be well-rounded, especially
in track.
I agree that she should have a chat with the coach. In fact she should chat with him/her daily if possible.
All athletes should let the coach know if they are injured, sick, or feeling stale. If I coached again
this is one of the first things I would tell them.
For once an athlete is injured, sick, or stale it is difficult to bring them back during that season.
But if the coach won't change you as an athlete must adapt. That might mean takings some
workouts easy.
Coach B: Although your schedule is "normal," I would not have a first year kid do that. I also would
not push any kid to follow a schedule. Everyone is different and we do have to make adaptations
depending on who they are. (I might add the best season I ever had as a coach was when
98% of the kids made All of the practices and everyone did basically the same workouts (except for
speed adjustments). We also supposedly had no injuries. But looking back I see many mistakes I
made even though we were very successful.