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Track season and snow
thedrys
February 27, 2010 (7:37 PM)
Mostly a question for you northern guys and gals, but I
guess we're all dealing with it this winter. Do you guys
have any contingency plans regarding meets and getting times
in for Drake qualifying? Going south? Praying? It's tough
to believe baseball season starts in a month looking
outside. How are you, or are you guys even making plans to
work with the weather? Or do you just hope for the best? | | lehmanhatesbaldorf
March 1, 2010 (7:58 AM)
I posed the same question a couple weeks ago. It's going to
be hairy around here--we have a few "indoor
blocks," a bunch of indoor hurdles, and an inflatable
high jump pit. The distance kids will be out on the roads a
bunch--our roads are starting to get dry so we'll do a bunch
of hill repeats and (I know this sounds hard on the legs)
repeats in front of the school. We've always struggled with
Drake Qualifying because of the weather/fact that most of
our athletes play basketball/wrestle. I'm just hoping we
see the track before May.
| thedrys
March 1, 2010 (8:45 AM)
Inflatable HJ pit? Nice! I know I'd like to have one of
those. Running the 3 point arc and doing plyos and jumps
just doesn't cut it after a while. Do you give the kids a
little break between seasons or is it bang bang one into the
next?
| lehmanhatesbaldorf
March 2, 2010 (2:27 PM)
I make my kids take a week between basketball and track. It
just lets them relax a bit before we get after them. It's
also good because this year's zillion inch snowfall really
dampens the track spirit so we're hoping for a little more
melting. My kids have been running for about a week but
we'll start official practice on Monday.
| pocohontas
March 5, 2010 (10:41 AM)
I'll let my kids know they have been working out a week
before your team Brock so they already have one team they
will beat!!! ha ha
Just kidding.
I'm hoping this great weather keeps up and at least starts
to dry out our lovely gravel track in Springville. With a
sprint heavy squad it doesn't work too well, we end up doing
a lot of hills (which the kids love) in March. Lonnie, the
coach at Cornell, is very generous to let us use their
awesome facility whenever we need too. I go out there twice
a week once meets start so we get a lot of quality speed
work and my field events get to actually workout on the good
stuff. Otherwise we have these weird rubber indoor blocks
and a high jump mat stuffed with straw that was used back
when Dion was participating in track. (circa 1932).
I am very excited as I have five freshmen and sophmores that
came out new to the team and signed up as distance! With no
cc program to speak of, (different coach, math teacher who
won't give it up) I am excited one. One even made the
mistake to tell me she has never ran over an 800 in middle
school but she will run whatever I would like her to. Sorry
sweetie but I will be making you a 3k, 1500 runner. You just
changed your life:)
| thedrys
March 6, 2010 (6:54 PM)
That's awesome, must be a great feeling having a little more
autonomy with a program after all those years under the
oppression of Coe. Rookie question, but do different
classes start at different points in the year? Or if you
have an indoor season, does that dictate that you start
earlier in the year?
| lehmanhatesbaldorf
March 7, 2010 (12:43 PM)
All classes begin at the same time--and now with the
boy/girl state format both genders also begin together.
Just make sure you watch the online rules meeting (for head
coaches). Abby might get to start before Sioux Center (even
though we're still buried by 100 feet of snow on the track)
but when her team doesn't have her at state for violating
state bylaws and not attending rules meetings, we'll see who
owns who in Des Moines (even though you're in po-dunk 1A and
we're in big class 2A).
| pocohontas
March 7, 2010 (4:24 PM)
What are you saying Brock? I attended the rules meeting via
internet. I'm sure the world wide web hasn't made it to
western Iowa, let alone Nebraska. Everyone knows you write
out your letters and mail your responses to Baldwin by Pony
Express and he types them into this website so it LOOKS like
you know what the Internet is.
I attended, I know that you can't have contrasting stitching
on under armor gear. But the question on my girls minds, can
you use bobby pins? I'm glad they are focused on what really
counts this season. Gotta love high schoolers. That sounds
creepy-unless your Dan Wolfe, then it's A-Ok!:)
| thedrys
March 7, 2010 (7:02 PM)
So if the first allowed practice according to the IGHSAU is
Feb 15, why wait so long to get started? With other sport
participation being the obvious exclusion.
| pocohontas
March 7, 2010 (8:00 PM)
My girls have been lifting and doing conditioning twice a
week since Thanksgiving but most of them are in other sports
(there are only 35 kids in a grade at this school so a some
of them are in basketball but the big reason for me is that
since we only have one indoor meet the last week in March so
to have high schoolers train for over 6 weeks with no
competition isn't very enticing to get more people out. Also
the weather makes it pretty crappy for training that part of
the year. I also worked at City High, saw high schoolers who
trained year round and there were SO many injuries, many
girls with 4-5 stress fractures in a high school career.
I've had a stress fracture in college and a torn hamstring
in high school and I don't want my athletes to deal with
that. Sometimes I think i could push them harder and start
earlier but it seems to be appropriate for high school?
College, heck no, you gotta run most of the year for sure.
| thedrys
March 7, 2010 (9:40 PM)
Makes complete sense. Especially since a lot of them are
getting "cross-training" through basketball and
other things. 6 weeks with no meets would be tough for any
group, not least ones that have a 5min attention span before
having to check their iPhones. I've had to hold way too
many cellphones for girls at practice. Why they're running
with phones? Have no idea. Had a coach tell me that this
fall one of their kids would run with their phone and text
while on runs...yep.
| lehmanhatesbaldorf
March 8, 2010 (9:51 AM)
For me, most of my kids play basketball or wrestle. We had
a pretty good year for basketball so we had a late start to
track. My non basketball/wrestling kids are pretty hot/cold
for winter running but when we could officially start
practice I would run with the distance kids and then go to
basketball practice.
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