I have a soft spot in my heart for Nebraska high school track and field, having experienced it for myself some time back.
What never changes there, though, is the wind, which will be 17 mph, or 9 mps, from the South/Southwest during distance races this afternoon.
An awful lot of you have no idea.
FWIW: Elkhorn South's Gabe Hinrichs, a baseball player his freshman and sophomore years, is going for the Class A 800, 1600, 3200 sweep. He'll be running at Notre Dame next year, I believe.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Nebraska high school track and field, having experienced it for myself some time back.
What never changes there, though, is the wind, which will be 17 mph, or 9 mps, from the South/Southwest during distance races this afternoon.
An awful lot of you have no idea.
FWIW: Elkhorn South's Gabe Hinrichs, a baseball player his freshman and sophomore years, is going for the Class A 800, 1600, 3200 sweep. He'll be running at Notre Dame next year, I believe.
Oh boo hoo. Nebraska is the only state that gets this kind of wind, right?
Back in high school I remember multiple races being +20 mph.
Picking the right sport really helped. I'm all for a fast Arcadia 3200, but winning a 3200 one day, then 800 and 1600 the next day (in Midwest winds no less), is awesome.
I won a 3200 my sophomore year running in lane 3 the entire way. It was 50-something when we showed up, but then started snowing like mad, so the inner lanes were all flooded.
It seemed like every meet I ran in during high school had high winds and generally miserable conditions (either really hot or really cold, but always windy). The first large invitational I won was in a blowing snowstorm at over 6,000 feet elevation. It's the nature of track in Colorado. The state track meet over the next few days has less than ideal conditions (23 mph winds with 36 mph gusts currently, with rain and snow forecast for Friday and Saturday). Fortunately, everyone is running in the same conditions. Throw the times out the window and focus on racing.
That's one of the reasons I dislike that Colorado eliminated the regional qualification system and switched to the time qualification system, as one fast meet in ideal conditions can cause more capable athletes who are predominantly running in poorer conditions or at higher elevations to be excluded.
It seemed like every meet I ran in during high school had high winds and generally miserable conditions (either really hot or really cold, but always windy). The first large invitational I won was in a blowing snowstorm at over 6,000 feet elevation. It's the nature of track in Colorado. The state track meet over the next few days has less than ideal conditions (23 mph winds with 36 mph gusts currently, with rain and snow forecast for Friday and Saturday). Fortunately, everyone is running in the same conditions. Throw the times out the window and focus on racing.
That's one of the reasons I dislike that Colorado eliminated the regional qualification system and switched to the time qualification system, as one fast meet in ideal conditions can cause more capable athletes who are predominantly running in poorer conditions or at higher elevations to be excluded.
As a sprinter, this sounds amazing....if the winds are BEHIND me, of course
They just ran a "Unified" 100, whatever that means, and the first heat went into a 1.9ms wind, with an 11.8 winning time. Heat 2 had 3.9ms wind, and the times were mid- to high-12 for all.
Class C-D compete Friday and Saturday in Omaha, so unsure of all-class winning times.
Nebraska Class A finals Gabe Hinrichs (Wednesday) 3200 9:16.14 1st (all-class TBD) Gabe Hinrichs (Thursday) 800 1:52.32 1st (all-class TBD) Gabe Hinrichs (Thursday) 4:16.34 1st (all-class TBD), closed in 61.58 and 62.14
Wyoming state meet today. Debating with myself whether the winds I've experienced at a few state meets there was worse. And still waiting to see where 'come on man' and ' coachcommentsnicely' went to high school.
As a sprinter, this sounds amazing....if the winds are BEHIND me, of course
They just ran a "Unified" 100, whatever that means, and the first heat went into a 1.9ms wind, with an 11.8 winning time. Heat 2 had 3.9ms wind, and the times were mid- to high-12 for all.
"Unified" events pairs a student with special needs with an average student who is not on the track team.
Sorry that students with handicaps that prevent them from being involved in other activities and students that volunteered to run with them didn't run fast enough for you.
