Long ago I quadrupled at my county meet. But I want to hear about yours
Long ago I quadrupled at my county meet. But I want to hear about yours
I used to quadruple at nearly every high school dual meet. Very common back in the 90s where I ran.
Best I remember:
4x800, a sparkling 2:20 split to jog it in, team 1st
800 2:06, 1st
1600 4:40 1st
4x400 53.x split, team 1st
Our team would have a competition for who scored the most points in a given year. I won 3 years in a row.
1 day meet:
3200 - 9:24 (took it easy)
800 in relay - 1:55
1600 - 4:24 (took it easy)
400 in relay - 52
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2 day meet:
3200 - 9:05
800 in relay - 1:57
800 open - 1:59
1600 - 4:15
Districts, Midwest wrote:
1 day meet:
3200 - 9:24 (took it easy)
800 in relay - 1:55
1600 - 4:24 (took it easy)
400 in relay - 52
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2 day meet:
3200 - 9:05
800 in relay - 1:57
800 open - 1:59
1600 - 4:15
Is that THE drew bosley?
Conference Meet
4x800, don’t remember time. Likely around 2:06. We scored points, no clue place
1600m: 1st 4:40 probably
800m: again likely around 2:06, no idea place, 5th maybe?
3200m: 1st, was about 10min after the 800m, 9:50 probably
Alan
3200 9:40 took it easy
1:59 took it easy
4:14
51.2
HS tri-meet
4:42, 2:04, 10:32, 57
First meet of the season
1600 - 4:37
800 - 2:07
3200 - 10:16
4x4 split - 55
New York Sectional meet 20+ years ago.
3200 - 1st - probably 10:10ish
4 x 800 - 1st - easy anchor leg - 2:08-2:10
1600 - probably 2nd or 3rd to my teammates - 4:45ish
3000 steeplechase - 1st - 10:27
And this an example of how running careers get shortened bc coaches want to win a meet by 100+ points.
I did the “Big Casino” as we used to call it (3200R, 1600, 800, 3200) many times. Most successfully at the Conference Championships my junior year of HS back in ‘05.
2:01 leadoff split (2nd place relay)
4:39 (2nd)
2:04 (4th)
10:17 (2nd)
The 1600 and 3200 are still my PRs although I haven’t run those events since HS and would blow them out of the water now.
Junior year of high school, our team had three decent distance runners that year, then no depth, so as an 800 runner, I had to quadruple each year, usually running one or two all out and 2 or 3 at some lower effort. Best quad was something like:
4:32 (maybe 4:24 shape, running just hard enough to beat best opponent), 1st/2nd, crossed line with teammate
2:00: pretty close to all out, but again just to beat best opponent, pr at the time was 1:58 1st/2nd, crossed line with teammate
11:00: was told to only let one opponent beat me and run as easy as possible to beat 2nd best opponent, my teammate ran for first while I got third, taking it as easy as I could while making sure to beat the other teams 2nd guy
51 in 4x4, team won the 4x4
We won the meet by 1 point, hence the focus on the 4x4 and need to still get 3rd in the 3200. This was back in the day when everything was FAT, but manually entered, no athletic.net yet, so our coaches wer able to track the meet and score it as it went so we knew exactly where we stood. It wouldn't work these days with everybody doing 3 to 4 teams at "dual meets."
Our HS coach constantly burned out top talent running us 4 events every dual meet to win. Then by the end of the season everyone was hurt, burnt out or quit. Our team won duals but never the league championship.
A bunch of times at dual meets. Best meet I did it at was outdoor nationals senior year:
SMR 800 - 1:56 (felt terrible)
4x8 anchor - 1:54 (got smoked by the sub-1:50 guys)
4xMile leadoff - 4:29 (tactical leadoff and didn't close well)
DMR 1200 - 3:10 (legs were toast)
Did it at basically every high school meet. Actually did three events in quite a few college meets as well and did some pentathlons in high school as well. Made it to state in the 200, 400, 800 and 1600 over the course of my high school career. Won the state meet in the 800 and the regional meet in the 1600. Ran everything from 400 and 400 hurdles to 5000 and 3000 steeple at the Division 1 level.
jghfg wrote:
I used to quadruple at nearly every high school dual meet. Very common back in the 90s where I ran.
Best I remember:
4x800, a sparkling 2:20 split to jog it in, team 1st
800 2:06, 1st
1600 4:40 1st
4x400 53.x split, team 1st
Our team would have a competition for who scored the most points in a given year. I won 3 years in a row.
Juco kids always get to quad or more. Last year I ran the dmr (2nd) won the 800 1000 prelims then ran the mile and 800 next day within 15 mins. It’s juco but the hardest part of it honestly was convincing myself to do it. This year I did the same without running the open mile.
High school dual meet on crappy cinder track
4x8 3rd leg 2:12, we won a close race
1600-4:41, 1st, no one close
800 - 2:13, 2nd to teammate
3200-10:21, 1st, no one close
Did a few other quads but this was probably the best of them, given the cinder track.
I did it at every meet my senior year in high school, including the state meet. I did it three times in nine days once. I almost always ran the same times:
3200 relay - 2:02 split +/- 1 sec
3200 - 9:50ish
1600 - 4:32ish
1600 relay - 51-53
Our relays typically won. I was typically 2nd to a teammate who always only doubled in the individual events. Looking back, I should have been more outspoken and not let them use me up. Our team was lousy outside of two distance guys, one mid-d guy, and one long sprinter (just enough to be respectable in the relays).
Tommy Fulton did it in college
I did it twice my senior year of high school (2003) my best was at a dual meet in April:
4x800m 2:10 split (2nd)
1600: 4:33 (1st)
800: 2:05 (2nd)
3200: 10:12 (1st)
We didn't have a lot of depth on the distance side, we had some talented freshman whom weren't quite there yet, so the workload on myself was much higher then I wanted it to be. Needless to say, I peaked early from all the high intensity repeats early in the season (set my PB in the 3200m at an indoor meet in March), performance regressed, then got hurt and finished the season on the sidelines. I hung up the spikes for good after that .
skeller15 wrote:
And this an example of how running careers get shortened bc coaches want to win a meet by 100+ points.
::raises hand::