when should DC reach out to college coaches? (cross country/track)

[Anonymous]

i’m not sure if the lifetime movie plot above is supposed to be a tearjerker, inspirational, or a cautionary tale. What I do know is that a 1:52 800 is really only valuable if the kid can add value on the cross team. but if so, that’s the most valuable kid around - top 5 cross and scoring 800 points in track -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i’m not sure if the lifetime movie plot above is supposed to be a tearjerker, inspirational, or a cautionary tale. What I do know is that a 1:52 800 is really only valuable if the kid can add value on the cross team. but if so, that’s the most valuable kid around - top 5 cross and scoring 800 points in track -

False

[Anonymous]

It’s definitely easier to get a spot for d1 track if you can run XC times as well.

Basically a good distance runner who can also run middle distance has an edge over someone who can only run one or the other.

My DS is really only a middle distancer, can run sub 1:55 800m and the 400 and 1000 really well, but struggled to break 16 in the 5k.

Really need to be running closer to sub 15 for XC at d1.

[Anonymous]

How much of a skinny midget do you have to be to run XC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much of a skinny midget do you have to be to run XC?

haha it is a smart, nice kid sport - but they are skinny. The midgets are the wrestlers. Alas, Ivy wrestlers are complete dopes, ivy runners belong in the schools

signed,
Parent of one ivy wrestler and one ivy runner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much of a skinny midget do you have to be to run XC?

Not at all. There are varying body types. Most are pretty skinny, but the top runners in our league range from slightly shorter than average to very tall. The fastest girls are usually skinny, but there is a strong, muscular body type that can also help you get pretty fast.

[Anonymous]

At least for the girls- it is all over the body type spectrum. Tall and lanky to short and muscular to tall and muscular to average with long legs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i’m not sure if the lifetime movie plot above is supposed to be a tearjerker, inspirational, or a cautionary tale. What I do know is that a 1:52 800 is really only valuable if the kid can add value on the cross team. but if so, that’s the most valuable kid around - top 5 cross and scoring 800 points in track -

False

Tearjerker? Really. You don’t get it. I am successful today - including completed schools with honors which helicopter DCUM those slobber over (overrated) - because of necessity. No way any of that happens if mommy and daddy paid the way. My cushy town just didn’t produce hardened and tough people.

I call a former world record holder in the mile to keep him company in his twilight years. He had a background similar to mine and would laugh at the tear jerker statement. His pride would be in not raising his kids that way, same as me. He was one mentally tough guy, and he like most people from hardship, really channeled his motivation into his chosen pursuit - having supreme confidence in his kick - just a belief in his speed derived in part because of necessity in his life. This is not a feature easily understood by most DCUM elitists.

But the point indeed is one of caution. Running is not swimming. A modest introduction to the sport in 8th grade has worked out well for so many. Starting earlier just rarely works out. For every Jakob Ingebritsen, whose father is facing charges of abuse, there are those that exit early. Witness Jakob’s siblings who are incredibly talented but who have abandoned the sport. Our double bronze medal winner in the 5k and 10k in Paris played soccer his first two years in high school. Some doubt his speed but I don’t. He just needs to dial up his kick earlier to be at the front and near the rail in these ferociously competitive races. But tearjerker guy as a former All American yourself you know all of this.

[Anonymous]

Somebody likes to be a thread killer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody likes to be a thread killer.

Every single track thread. Not sure why someone who went to college in the 70s is posting here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i’m not sure if the lifetime movie plot above is supposed to be a tearjerker, inspirational, or a cautionary tale. What I do know is that a 1:52 800 is really only valuable if the kid can add value on the cross team. but if so, that’s the most valuable kid around - top 5 cross and scoring 800 points in track -

False

Tearjerker? Really. You don’t get it. I am successful today - including completed schools with honors which helicopter DCUM those slobber over (overrated) - because of necessity. No way any of that happens if mommy and daddy paid the way. My cushy town just didn’t produce hardened and tough people.

I call a former world record holder in the mile to keep him company in his twilight years. He had a background similar to mine and would laugh at the tear jerker statement. His pride would be in not raising his kids that way, same as me. He was one mentally tough guy, and he like most people from hardship, really channeled his motivation into his chosen pursuit - having supreme confidence in his kick - just a belief in his speed derived in part because of necessity in his life. This is not a feature easily understood by most DCUM elitists.

But the point indeed is one of caution. Running is not swimming. A modest introduction to the sport in 8th grade has worked out well for so many. Starting earlier just rarely works out. For every Jakob Ingebritsen, whose father is facing charges of abuse, there are those that exit early. Witness Jakob’s siblings who are incredibly talented but who have abandoned the sport. Our double bronze medal winner in the 5k and 10k in Paris played soccer his first two years in high school. Some doubt his speed but I don’t. He just needs to dial up his kick earlier to be at the front and near the rail in these ferociously competitive races. But tearjerker guy as a former All American yourself you know all of this.

You are one weird dude

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody likes to be a thread killer.

Every single track thread. Not sure why someone who went to college in the 70s is posting here.

Every mention of xc also summons that one “eww, skinny people” weirdo as well.

[Anonymous]

i do agree though, running is not swimming