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@xcnewbee

What you are failing to include is that those sprint events overlap with LJ/TJ/HJ and should not be held in isolation. Those are more often than not the same athletes. When have you ever seen a distance runner do a field event other than PV (Chapel Hill and Landmark both had a 8/16 runner PV I think)?

Problem number 2: only in America are we considering the 800m a distance event and you cannot include the open 400 and 4x4 anything close to distance. If you are racing the 3200m you are not in the 4x4. I think we should have the 4x800m relay because we are so deep at the 400m in Georgia not because we have lots of distance runners!

I look forward to watching the sophomore boys tear it up in the 16 and 32 this year.

In AAA Girls look for a pair of young ones from West Hall to improve on a strong season last year. Maia Booker as a freshman last year ran 12.03 in the 100 and 24.78 in the 200. Laniesha Kearse as a sophomore ran 14.67 in the 100 HH and 45.82 in the 300 LH.

@MaristXCcoach
The 800 is only really a distance event in HS once you hit college it is mid-distance to a sprint event. The 400 and 4x400 are sprinting event but there are a good amount of distance runners that do run them, mainly the 4x400. But that is why I said that most people wouldn't count them and at most they could only count as half. Yes sprinters do compete in multiple field events but this only makes my idea stronger. But yes I do really want the 4x800!

If we look at the individual events, each successive event is twice as long as the next longest event (200=2x100, 400=2x200, 800=2x400, 1600=2x800, 3200=2x1600). With relays, we seem to have started with an incremental factor of four (4x400 = 4x4x100).
Wouldn't that mean that the next logical event in the series should be the 4x1600 rather than the 4x800?

@dataholic

What I think actually occurred is that folks followed the lead of the Olympics/international competition. There really are no international 4x2's, 4x8's, 4x16's, or even SMR/DMR's outside of Penn. Then the powers that be got scared and eliminated the 10k, the 5k, the steeplechase, and 400m hurdles and gave us the 3200m and 300mH for some reason (kids can't handle it?). These are the same folks that wouldn't let girls compete for decades so can we really trust their judgment?

The single biggest thing that could help American distance running in 10 years is the reintroduction of the 5k/10k during the track season at championship meets (not duals or most invitationals).

@CoachMoses2005 Coach,.....I think the Grayson Rams will have a strong girls 4x400 with both of the Abrams and Jacqueline Obi.

@tracknfieldfiend are you suggesting that distance runners aren't studs? because i know very many that would be upset with that notion.

@btxc14
Surely after reading the "multi event stud" posts previous to mine you can see that this statement was made in jest.

@tracknfieldfiend oh ok i see what you were getting at

Anyone who considers the 800m a distance event didn't see the shootout in the state finals last year in boys, or haven't watched a host of Cobb and Gwinnett runners in recent history.

The 400m/800m combo, in my opinion, is the hardest in t&f.

Junior Demian Sevciuc of Johns Creek HS. Gunning for 24'+ in the long jump and 48' - 50' in the triple jump

Dunwoody soph Alex Cameron threw down a solo 2:17'ish in the 800 at a tri-meet tonight at Marist. Probably a candidate for the elusive sub-5 minute 1,600 club this year.

@Pre1962
It was awesome to watch (2:19.93)... This was Alex's first 800 of the season!

@tracknfieldfiend

That is a great early season run for her.

But I have to ask, why are we so bad at the 800? Especially on the girls side. Compared to NJ (a smaller state), we had 6 girls under 2:16 last year. NJ had 25. NY had 40.

The guys side is much closer. We had 25 guys under 1:56. NJ had 42 and NY 30.

Can anyone explain this to me?

GANYRunner

@tracknfieldfiend

That is a great early season run for her.

But I have to ask, why are we so bad at the 800? Especially on the girls side. Compared to NJ (a smaller state), we had 6 girls under 2:16 last year. NJ had 25. NY had 40.

The guys side is much closer. We had 25 guys under 1:56. NJ had 42 and NY 30.

Can anyone explain this to me?

@GANYRunner



Uh oh. You're about to get banned, my friend.

@GANYRunner This is a good question, and one that will certainly get a lot of input (as it has before). I hope no one objects, but I'm going to take the liberty of starting a new thread on this just to keep this current mostly-positive thread from being sullied too much.

....and to try to steer this back in the right direction, Dunwoody 4X4 girls ran a 3:56 last week at Marist, which is smoking for February. They're coached at least partially by Antonio McKay, who owns some notable hardware and has a pretty quick offspring still running well at Tech.