It’s a time to test high school runners?

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2 months ago 05/30/2024 12:15am EDT

re: Almost fast

Almost fast wrote:
A bunch of 40 somethings demanding that high-schoolers get tested because they're 4:40 mile doesn't hold up as well is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. Go out and do something with you're life other than complain about some 17 year olds who ran faster than you on a online message board.

They are 4:40 mile? I am not 4:40 mile, I am 4:15 1600m.

You are life? I am not life, I already told you I am 4:15 1600m.

Uuhhh online message board? I give up.

Perhaps you should edit this a third time.

2 months ago 05/30/2024 12:54am EDT

re: Dexter St. John

Math, Science, Civics, Grammar, Logic, Literature, and History. I support a rigorous testing protocol with bans for those who do not pass.

2 months ago 05/30/2024 2:56am EDT

re: Dexter St. John

I agree with you, but at the same time I think that we will create a trauma for them if we test them individually

2 months ago 05/30/2024 10:43pm EDT

re: Run Run Run Run

Run Run Run Run wrote:
And for kids who aren't competitive in high school their chance to win a medal in middle school might have been ruined by a drug cheat. Better test them too. In fact, post-collegiate runners may never get another chance to win anything if we don't start testing at the neighborhood 5K races. Where I stand you sound like an elitist hellbent on enforcing the integrity of the sport (as you see it) for a tiny percentage of already top competitors. And I agree with you to an extent... integrity of the sport is important. It's why professionals are tested. But whether or not to test high schoolers is also a matter of resources and of unintended consequences. The majority of kids have no idea what they want to do with their lives yet. A kid may try a recreational drug one weekend and go out for track the next week. Let sports be the positive influence they should be. Don't force kids off of teams and toward worse lifestyles. I've been around schools that have chosen self impose tests for athletes before and when kids were getting busted it wasn't for PEDs.

Of course, middle school sports are serious competition just like high school sports. So they should be tested, too.

"Neighborhood 5k" is a recreational activity. People do that for physical wellness and competition is secondary. So you don't have to test them.

Shelby Burrito Houlihan was allowed to run in one of those races because they are not taken as seriously as high school district meets or Olympic Games.

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