2617802, It is a hard sell but I try getting him to run the 8 seriously...
Posted by Cornbread, Mon Jul-17-17 10:23 AM
The 800 is a chess match and it builds up your strength and endurance like nothing else. It will definitely improve his basketball endurance. The HS basketball coach used to force his players to run track for part of the year. Great conditioning.
Pitch to him that the 800 is a hardcore race that most 200 and 400m runners are afraid of and that long distance folks get squeamish over. When I was in high school, we had one of the top 4x800 squads in the country. It was nice to be feared.
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