r/track

Sharing a research opportunity for current NCAA and varsity high school athletes in the Dallas area.

We’re looking to hear from athletes who regularly incorporate speed training into their workouts and train in running shoes (not sport-specific cleats).

The research will be conducted in person in Dallas, Friday, August 21st at 3:30pm, lasts approximately 90 minutes, and selected participants will receive $225 for their time.

If you’re an athlete who may qualify or know someone who might, feel free to message me and I can share the study details.

Me and a friend had a discussion a while ago and we were wondering wether the 800m or 400m is harder. Over the internet you hear 400m being extremely mentally hard but does that also apply to 800m or not? Are they comparable?

Would having a football coach as a track coach as well be terrible? At my new high school our football coach is also our new track coach (Dk what happened to our old one) and im not sure if its common or good for a football coach to be a track coach because its 2 different programs and different ways of working out (he coaches wrs)

So, I'm not a great runner but I want to go to a D3 school. I'm currently running a 63-70 second 400m, a 54-59 second 300m hurdle, and a 29-34 second 200m dash. Does anyone have tips on how to get better and to train for my senior year season?

I’m turning 14 soon and I’m a freshman. I run track but wanted to know if any of my times are promising whatsoever
100: 12.36
200: 27.58
400: 1:05
110: 20.84
400H: 1:18.23
800: 2:41
1600: 6:23
3200: 15:05
5k: 27:22
Do I have any real chance of ever being good later in high school or even maybe making track in college? For reference I’m a guy who focuses on sprints.

So I’m a sprinter who does hurdles and the 100, 200, and 400. But I have terrible endurance which ends up with me running 12.5s on the 100 and running 28s on the 200 and a 1:08 on the 400. Any advice on how to improve my stamina or if I’m doing something wrong?

Does anyone, including the participants, actually enjoy it? At the recent Commonwealth Games, they could only find 5 entrants for the men's 10k, and didn't even hold a women's that I'm aware of.

I find it excruciatingly irritating that there is an event where the whole point is to nearly cheat a bit better than your fellow near-cheaters.

Does running the 400 on the side help sprinters with the 100 and 200? my friends and other athletes told me that running the 400 helps lowering your time for some odd reason but its weird and i don’t get how

I am doing 2000 steeplechase this weekend，I have experience doing 800，mile and 300H. Shall I step on the hurdle while doing the steeplechase, Also
Do I wear socks doing it, I feel uncomfortable not wearing socks during running, so hopefully could get some tips thanks

My apologies it’s a bit personal,I’m still confused if i want to quit or not because i don’t wanna lose the money my parents spent or the efforts in all of the 10 years that will be wasted.
In competitions it’s so unfair and they cheat alot and i had multiple injuries last year and no one in my coaches seem to care or help,so because of the environment this year i started to hate the sport and after every single session i used to go home crying and begging my mom to quit and after multiple arguments with my parents i finally got a 5months break from it. But tbh i always feel guilty, it’s like I’m missing a part of myself and my personality. This month i realized that i love running but im a little overweight and slow but i really wanna try track and field because i want to feel like im working on myself and i want something to be passionate about but still deep down i think about my old sport and feel guilty about it. And i started playing tennis as well but im not feeling the passionate feeling, im just doing it for fun and not MY THING.

I hope some people can relate and tell me about their stories and hope you all the best.

And if there’s any track and field people to tell me if they recommend it and what should i do to get better and how do they train.

Overall i need advices because deep down if there’s no unfairness i will still love the sport.

I’m somewhat new to running and want to learn all the different terms, like zones and V02 Max even though I should probably know these terms. Runner to runner please help me stop LARPING the terms that o come a crossed in my running life

I’ve been running for about 13 years, all 4 years of higher school I made it to states, 2 years I made it to finals seeded to place top 3 but when the time came to race I jogged everytime simply because I did not want to race anyone. I love hard practices so it’s honestly not like I’m lazy, I was good enough in highschool to be able to run at the D1 level but I hate anything to do with track meets to the point that I don’t talk about track and I rarely watch any track related videos and if they come on my fyp I skip them. I don’t really know how to get my motivation back I still enjoy running I just really hate the competition aspect to it and if I could run in meets by myself with no competitors I would but it doesn’t work like that so I’m not sure what to do

Hey guys, I’m new to sprinting but I really like it and want to be more serious about it. I don’t know much yet aside from basic training drills. As of today I run consistently between 52.5s and 53s in P.E. class with basic tennis shoes. For reference I’m an 18yrs male measuring 170cm for 61kg.

I was thinking of buying the Adidas Adizero EVO SL**,** as I saw many redditors mention it, what are your thoughts?

Do you have any general advice, maybe tips to prevent injury?

My goal would be to run 400m in sub 50s, I think with proper equipment and training it could be possible.

Thanks for your time!

Im an Elastic based sprinter (top end speed dominant) But i’ve read articles saying my type as a sprinter would accelerate in the 200/400 compared to a power sprinters who Accels in the 100, How do people know which events best suits them just because of their sprint type because ive beaten plenty of 100 runners but the 200 is more of my thing because im elastic dominant? its confusing and in terrible at the 400 so is it an athlete issue?

Im so confused on this