Choosing an event (for a track meet)?

Question

I know I've asked this a lot, but I'm trying to make a decision.

There's a track meet coming up on May 20th for the whole county. It's not very competitive, since the national mile times for this contest (Hershey Track and Field) are only 5 minutes or so for my division. I will be competing against people up to a year older than me.

On the same day, I'm competing against the top 5 13-year-old girls in my school for the mile. This is in the morning. The track meet starts at 5:30 and goes to 8:30.

I'm doing the mile run and the standing long jump. There's one more event that I could do:

100 meter dash

200 meter dash

800 meter run

I don't really fancy myself as a sprinter, but I've been complimented when I was just running up the street to catch my friend.

My coach says that I shouldn't do the 800 because

1. I'm already running the mile twice that day,

and

2. I could experiment with short distance (200) and just see how I do.

Answer 1

well ok here are your choices. the 800 is a very tiring race but its' probably better suited to you because you are a distance runner. the 200 is a little less tiring but i doubt you'd be as good as you could be in the 800. but my personal opinion is that you should just do the 200 because for one it's not gonna wipe you out for your mile race and two it'll just be a fun race to see if you can be a sprinter or not.

Answer 2

just pick something that you would like to try and do your best!