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Subject: Re: importance of the 9:00 3km high school runner

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Date Posted: 08:15:41 03/14/01 Wed
In reply to: 56.4 's message, "Re: importance of the 9:00 3km high school runner" on 20:33:00 03/13/01 Tue

That is a bunch of crap. If a 10.00 min runner in Canada is counter there should be a greater accountability to train with desire. The talent level at many of the Canadian schools is very similar to the 2nd tier schools in America. The reason the attitude is not the same as the American schools is in my opinion that the coaches do not care as much about track. The results from many of the cross country meets here in Canada are similar to many in the States. Then in track season we are not keeping the kids on task. There are a ton of kids at home that are not well coached in the highschool ranks and will have a great improvement curve. Walk on teams in America can beat the best in Canada. That is CRAP.

>>Give me a break. A coach can only go as far as
>providing a program for their athletes. The rest is
>up to the runner. It is ridiculous comparing the ciau
>and ncaa. For the most part the mentality of a 10:00
>2 miler competing for a canadian as opposed to an
>american team are very different. For example at the
>ci level this athlete would be a counter in xc. At
>ncaa this athlete would not even race, and would
>ultimately be under great preassure to improve. I
>also suspect a 10:00 2 miler at the ncaa level would
>have a greater desire to comitt himself to improving,
>as opposed to a ciau runner who is an average runner
>on the team(far less preasasure). my 2 cents.
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>you are completly right! 9 minute 3k kids might not
>>seem like anything special when compared to the 8:30
>>kids but they sure can develop into something.
>>Cutting these kids instead of working their asses off
>>is definalty the wrong approach. I've seen these kids
>>do some impressive things. Here at WVU we've had a lot
>>of walk on kids at around the 10 minute 2 mile (over
>>9:00 3000m) out of high school, who our coach has
>>worked hard with every day. These kids worke just as
>>hard as everyone else and the results they have
>>produced are very important to our team. We have a kid
>>who ran over 10 minutes in high school, he came here
>>his freshmen year worked hard and two years later ran
>>14:40's another kid ran 8:29 3000m his freshmen indoor
>>year and only ran 9:50's 2 mile in high school.
>>The 9 minute kids at home can do this and should be
>>doing this, if the coach is paying as much attention
>>to them as he is his faster kids. It's all about
>>progression in this sport and some kids take a little
>>longer to catch up.
>>Think what a 6th or 7th man at 14:40's for 5000m could
>>do at the CAIU level

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Re: importance of the 9:00 3km high school runner	56.4	09:37:58 03/14/01 Wed