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For those who say high-schoolers are being cheated by not running 400H, all I can say
is:
Yeah, sure. And make the kidlets run 42-inch hurdles in the highs. And throw the
16-pound shot. And use 16-foot Pacer poles in the vault. Why deprive them?
Nothing wrong with running 300
Ken that exist only in the City section of the CIF. I won the C's 300ih in
1986, and was quite pleased with myself. But I regretted not knowing the
400ih when I graduated. Before going to college I ran a few meets over the
summer, and I was completely lost on the event. The learning curve, and
It seems to me that most good 400H can run a decent 800m. I don't think
you can say the same for the 300H.
It may be that you can get by in the 300H with sprint speed, but when you
increase the distance by 1/3 some endurance comes into play and some of
those that were very good 300H may find
DG,
Yeah, I get the point on 300s not being quite the challenge as 400s, but you do learn
such things as step pattern and running the curve. My old coach at Valencia was
crestfallen when I told him, near the end of my junior year, that my family was moving
to Omaha. He said: "You can't do
