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.
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