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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Track[/quote]

Niece is in track in NoVa.  They travel a lot on weekends up to 4 or 5 hours away.  Whole weekend is shot.  Hotels hundreds of dollars.  Meets all day and she gets to run like maybe total a few minutes.  No schedule at meets.  Each race finishes when it finishes and then the next race.  SIL sitting in stands all day.  Have no idea cost to be on the travel team.  Off season was doing conditioning with trainer.  Niece is OK but not top or anything.  They went to Fl for some big meet.  SIL probably spent 10-12K last spring/summer.

All above sounds horrible to us with time commitment, resources, and money.   DC is young.  We are encouraging sports but not travel anything unless DC is really good and pushes it for himself.

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I ran for a few seasons in high school and this is accurate.  I didn’t get home from weeknight meets until close to midnight a few times.  And track is not the sport for those concerned about social distancing - so much sitting/laying around with your team in tight corners while waiting for your event to start.[/quote]

Field events are even worse, you spend so much time sitting around waiting for your turn.[/quote]

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