LFHS Track & Field

@lennartprimal Does anybody take this "detox dude" seriously? If you're not good enough to run, just say so. Lots of people put down stuff they aren't good at.

Running has to be the worst sport out of all: > not fun at all > destroys joints > no meaningful goal > extremely stressful > makes you low T > ages you fast > gives you skinny fat physique > inefficent to lose weight

Enjoyed listening to my friend @KMTrackandField speaking on the 400. Fun Fact: We ran on the same 4x4 at sectionals in high school and yes,I was a thrower who qualified for state. Anyone who finds that crazy talk to @LFHStrack

@HawkEmDownChris Have to remove Kobe. There's already a guy better at his position on the squad.

Who doesn’t make the team?

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@Siemers_XC_TF You said, "Look at my times." Your times? What YOU ran? It's been a while since I was an athlete, but I'll tell you what times I ran if you like. I'm not nearly presumptuous enough to pretend to own the times of the athletes I coach. They all could have been amazing without me.

@LFHStrack Dude. Just stop. What are your 400m runners times?

I'm tired of hearing that aerobic work makes kids slow. Especially in 400 training. The same idea that refuses to let a 400 kid touch a tempo run is the idea that explains why so many of those kids tie up at the 300m mark like they're running through wet cement. "Too much aerobic work would steal their speed." Cool. I agree leg speed matters in a 400. But here's the idea I want dead. The Aerobic Tax. The notion that every aerobic mile withdraws from some imaginary speed account. That tempo runs dull the kick. That a kid who ran a steady 4-mile on Monday somehow can't fire on Friday. That a 400 athlete who builds an engine in the offseason will somehow show up in April with no top end. It doesn't work that way. You don't lose speed because you ran long. You lose speed because you stopped training speed. But more than that. Your kid isn't dying at 300 because he's TOO AEROBIC. He's dying at 300 because there's no aerobic floor underneath the speed. The race is 49 seconds. He has speed for 29 of them. The other 20 are aerobic whether you trained them or not. Pull up the training log. Find the tempo runs. Find anything that built the engine that has to carry the speed across the line. If it isn't there, the kid isn't dying because he ran fast. He's dying because nobody built what he needed to FINISH fast. The 400 isn't a speed event with an aerobic problem. It's an aerobic event with a speed finish.

@Siemers_XC_TF Your times for a sprinter's 4-mile run?

@LFHStrack Ok. Look at my times.

@pntrack B by a mile

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@Siemers_XC_TF A 4-mile run for a sprinter is LSD, relatively speaking. That is not building speed.

@LFHStrack That’s how we describe the final run with the top kids. You did assume that 4-miles is LSD.

@Siemers_XC_TF You mentioned a "steady 4-mile run" in your original post. I didn't need to assume anything.

14x250m@1600 w/50m walk in 60”. Long is relative. Whats “long” to XC doesn’t have the same meaning as “long” to a 400m runner. Thats over 2 miles at an aerobic pace. Thats “long” to a 400 runner. Thats where we start. Then extend from there. I’m arguing against the idea that NO aerobic running has a place in the 400. Never said do a XC long run. That was you assuming. Thats the problem.

@Siemers_XC_TF Then give a specific example of aerobic work. You literally said, "You don't lose speed because you ran long."

@LFHStrack Never said LSD. Said aerobic. Big difference.

@ReddPrintt @travismillerx13 Again, please state me the year he dominated on second leg in the WC or OLY.

@LFHStrack @travismillerx13 There is a difference from truth and opinion and your opinion is yours and ours is ours now grow up you look silly

Who are the most clutch second leg 4x100m runners? 🤔

@ReddPrintt @travismillerx13 Just asking people what year he dominated on second leg. Truth isn't hate. Please tell me the year he dominated on second leg in the WC or OLY.

@LFHStrack @travismillerx13 Damn what did he do to you you’re hating hard and spreading nothing but negativity on this man name for what reason exactly ❓

@Willie_Beamon_ @travismillerx13 Again, what year? Please state the year he did an amazing job in the WC or OLY 4x100m on second leg. In 2004 he was mediocre (even though he was the 100m OLY champ). In 2008 he was serving a drug suspension. In 2016, he DQed the relay.

@LFHStrack @travismillerx13 Yeah, you don’t know track buddy. JG was passing the baton in first in most races. Now what the 3rd and 4th legs did with it is another story. Bro was LEGIT at 2nd!

@CoachFColeman @DevauntaeBlaze Same thing happened to our 4x100m team in 2014 at State prelims. Official was not even lined up with the zone and would have no way to make such a close call. Video and photo evidence shows we were in, but they refused to look at it. I'm still salty about it.

@DevauntaeBlaze 3rd leg exchange zone violation, however we were in the zone but were judged based on the body and not the baton which is the rule. We were also told no video evidence would be allowed to overturn decision however it was allowed the day prior in prelims

@TopTierStateX 2001 Miami at #4 is INSANITY!

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I’m pro kids playing lots of sports but football is the sport where playing multiple sports helps the most. Football isn’t a skilled sport. It’s more about being an athlete and strong. Football players playing basketball helps them. Basketball players playing football does not.

@S_U_Network False. I love Larry Legend, but come on. LeBron is #2. Larry is somewhere around 6-8.

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