Has anyone heard this before? This is amazing if there isn't some misunderstanding.
Video should pickup a few seconds before he says it if you click below.
Has anyone heard this before? This is amazing if there isn't some misunderstanding.
Video should pickup a few seconds before he says it if you click below.
Not terribly surprising. Rasheed Wallace did so in Philadelphia. Lots of guys back then had to for conditioning purposes amongst other reasons. I see some teams doing it again where I live.
Maybe he did. At a lot of schools teams are filled out by winter and spring sport athletes who need to stay in shape in the off season. John Parker Jr. was a basketball player in hs and only switched to full time running when he realized he wouldn't get any playing time in college. He went on to win three sec miles and if I remember correctly won usatf in the steeple or something once.
True. Inner city teams with little tradition in XC and distance running are often made up of basketball players going through the motion and training through the season. In the school where I taught but didn't coach the XC coach was the basketball coach. They'd jog for 20 minutes a few days a week and do a bit of strength training. A few days a week their practice consisted of basketball scrimmages. If you didn't show up Saturday morning to race you had no chance making the varsity team. They had guys who couldn't break 25 minutes for 5ks. There were worse teams.
In my district, every team usually had a full roster even if they weren’t competitive. So they might have 2-3 XC-only guys on the team and then 4-5 randoms from other sports. These randoms were most commonly basketball players. Some were pretty fast and could run 18:xx, but they were usually on the slow side. Their coaches just expected them to finish.
Caruso > D. Rose! wrote:
Has anyone heard this before? This is amazing if there isn't some misunderstanding.
Video should pickup a few seconds before he says it if you click below.
https://youtu.be/qHyeEKa6B64?t=157
Why do you think this is so amazing?
I mean obviously guys would often play more than one sport and do things for conditioning
I don't get why you think this is so amazing
I mean he had to be in high school 30 35 years ago, it was more likely for guys back then to play more than one sport
As other people said maybe his coach had him do it for conditioning, maybe his mom made him do it to stay out of trouble
Now with AAU and everything guys play bball year-round and have leagues to be in. But even LeBron played football in high school which is pretty crazy considering he was a lock to be in the NBA
I heard he would do crazy workouts like 3x1600 at 3k race pace. Very little rest, like 30 seconds. Unbelievable.
At my high school, the basketball coach required all the basketball players to run cross-country.
i heard it through the rose vine wrote:
I heard he would do crazy workouts like 3x1600 at 3k race pace. Very little rest, like 30 seconds. Unbelievable.
Damn his coach must be as crazy as that one coach that posted similar workouts on Letsrun.
elephino wrote:
At my high school, the basketball coach required all the basketball players to run cross-country.
I suspect you are a little older or had a very progressive basketball coach. As a track/XC coach I had to contend with basketball coaches that demanded year-round participation.
I am in my 50's and the day before the first day of school my freshman year the basketball coach called. He said, "I see you are not on the football roster." I played football in junior high but was only about 5' 100lbs. I answered "No, I'm not playing football." He replied, " Here is the cross-country coach's phone number. I expect you to be there in the morning," and hung up. This is how my running career started.
Not much like that goes on in 2020.
i heard it through the rose vine wrote:
I heard he would do crazy workouts like 3x1600 at 3k race pace. Very little rest, like 30 seconds. Unbelievable.
Went on to say he did this very same workout in fact, but it caused him permanent mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and etheric damage.
In all seriousness I read up on this a bit more and Jalen's basketball coach made the entire team do XC for conditioning. They didn't take it very seriously, but did get a little bit of running in.
I thought nearly all fans of N.B.A. knew Jalen Rose participated on hs XC team. I did not have any male basketball players on my hs XC team but I recall there were a couple of female basketball players who participated on hs XC team. I recall a varsity wrestler and a varsity baseball player on my hs XC team. M.L.B. Hall of Famer, Bert Blyleven participated in hs XC. Blyleven said he regularly ran 5 to 10 miles on his off days. Blyleven correlates his 242 complete games and 60 complete game shutouts to running.
My XC team in PA we had 4 XC runners.. The best one was a basketball player who just ran to keep in shape. He was so good the coach talked to him and his mother and made him quit basketball to run full time. Worked out as he earned a scholarship and ended up breaking the school record in the mile. The rest of the team was filled out with wrestlers and sprinters that were forced to join the team. In total we had 7 members 4 of which took it seriously.
I didn’t find much motivation for running until after high school. I ran xc for conditioning for wrestling. One of my xc teammates was a state qualifier in the shot put. I recently looked at our team photo in the yearbook. Funny to see the two of us.
I still apologize to the coach and other teammates when I see them. LOL.
A team we ran duel meets against in high school, their coach had the basketball players do cross country to stay in shape. This is fairly common, like some 400-800m guys doing xc.
elephino wrote:
At my high school, the basketball coach required all the basketball players to run cross-country.
Same. My coach made me run xc then when I made it to state in xc he cut me from the basketball team
just the facts wrote:
elephino wrote:
At my high school, the basketball coach required all the basketball players to run cross-country.
I suspect you are a little older or had a very progressive basketball coach. As a track/XC coach I had to contend with basketball coaches that demanded year-round participation.
I am in my 50's and the day before the first day of school my freshman year the basketball coach called. He said, "I see you are not on the football roster." I played football in junior high but was only about 5' 100lbs. I answered "No, I'm not playing football." He replied, " Here is the cross-country coach's phone number. I expect you to be there in the morning," and hung up. This is how my running career started.
Not much like that goes on in 2020.
yup. basketball and soccer coaches are easily my biggest impediment to recruiting track and xc. and even once I get them, bball season goes 2 or 3 weeks into track, and they spend their summers doing several basketball camps.