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The U. S. National Track & Field Championship meet came and went recently with hardly a notice by its fan base and the nation’s press. This happened because basically there is no fan base of marketing value, and the nation’s traditional media (newspapers, television and radio) can hardly keep their doors open for business by covering a nonevent.

The American runners who used to dominate the world track scene have become so few and so lame as to be almost nonexistent. Our middle distance runners could muster only 1 of 36 possible medals from 800 meters to the marathon in last summer’s 2008 Beijing Olympics. We can’t even dominate the sprints anymore. Usain Bolt and the “Jamaica Me Fast” crowd has taken over track’s sprint world.

First of all, here are some of the most popular events when it comes to track and field recruiting:

- Short Distance Sprint Events
- Middle Distance Events
- Long Distance Events
- Hurdles
- Relays
- Discuss
- Shot Put
- Javelin
- High Jump
- Long Jump

Of course, there are many other events, but these are probably the most common and popular events.

In order to earn a spot a college team, you must step out from the crowd and find a way to get the attention of college coaches. Of course, the easiest way to make that happen is to simply dominate your competition. For select athletes, this does happen. They are just so far above their competition, college coaches are sleeping in their driveway every night waiting to sign them.

In my experience as a competitive runner at the high school and college levels, and in masters (40+) and seniors (50+) competition, I have learned that speed is a God-given gift. However fast you can run with sufficient training in a time trial is how fast you can go all out. If you can’t break 12 flat for a 100-meter dash, you are not going to run 10 flat with the best coaching in the world.

Arthur Lydiard, arguably the best distance running coach in the world, has some interesting thoughts on the subject of speed. No less a coach than Bill Bowerman has said that “there is no better distance coach in the world” than Lydiard. In Lydiard’s book, Running - The Lydiard Way, the grand master of coaching says this:

To end up competing at the college level, you need multiple colleges showing interest in you. If only a handful of schools are sending you letters, chances are you may not end up signing with any college.

One thing is for sure: Jeremy Wariner and Alan Webb have talent and conditioning but no one will ever figure that out unless they step onto the track to compete and, once there, believe they can win again.

Watching track and field in America right now is like giving the barn a fresh coat and then watching the paint dry. Even worse, track and field right now has the personality of an ashtray, and will soon be the butt of too many jokes among world’s elite performers

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