The 3200m in our conference is extremely shallow, but I'm so sympathetic to my kids' "that's incredibly boring" argument (particularly during indoor, when you can get lapped and actually run an okay race) that we've done a terrible job developing 3200m runners.

I'm putting my foot down on that one this year. As a specialty, the mile is for kids I can actually imagine running under 4:30. I'll punt away entry slots at real meets if it means sticking to this. We're going to have two milers this season.

But you're not wrong. Longer events on the track are crazy boring.