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Official Called a Scratch.

This was my last jump for my divison prelims and the other jumps were lackluster. From this video I don't believe it was a scratch and everyone thought it was clean besides the official. But Critique my form and tell me what I should improve on. 😁

u/BackgroundDay1208 — 2 days ago
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I am a 7th grader that runs 1:12 in the 400m, 32 in the 200m and 12.8 in the 100m. How long do you think it’ll take for me to go sub one minute

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u/iamflymorgan — 10 days ago
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Yo. My events are 110mH and 100m.

I think I might have injured myself, but I'm not sure how. I had a meet earlier this week, and a few days before that was my first track practice on a real track. I was a bit sore after but was fine. When I came home, I was hyped and decided to hurdle for a while since I didn't get to hurdle at the track. I didn't injure or hit myself, but I was sore as per usually after practice and hurdling made me even more sore. Still, I thought I was chill.

Then I had my meet, and I did well. I won in my events but it was during the 110mH that I started to feel discomfort or sum in my right hamstring (I hurdle with my right leg) but it wasn't horrible. Then I had the 100m. However, midway through the 100, I started to feel it again but worse. When I pushed off the ground with my right foot and then raised my leg past a certain height to get my knee up, it hurt. Had to slow down. Since then, hurts to bend my right leg or lift it straight past a certain height. I can walk on it, just mildly uncomfortable if i fully extend when I walk. My other leg is sore too but I can tell that's just normal meet kind of sore.

I've tried putting it up, using heat (may or may not have burned myself with a hotpack), and stretching.

Has anyone else experienced this? I stretched before my races, did what I normally do. I've never injured myself like this before doing track. Is it because I overdid it by trying to hurdle after my first practice when i was already sore?

For context, I'm like five foot 8 and a half. I've always been athletic and faster than most people my age. Lean. And most importantly, I'm not very injury-prone. Never broken anything in my life, though maybe I've had a strain or too from sports in the distant past.

Advice?

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u/yanyanbun — 7 days ago
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i started running my 8th grade year, so this is my second year. I go to a 3A school and typically place high in races. since i am in a smaller division its hard to tell how good i actually am. should i stick with the 800? i have run the 4x4 three times this year. first 4x4 split: 1:10 second 4x4 split: 1:06 third 4x4 split: 1:05

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u/Ecstatic_Street4 — 12 days ago
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I’m an 8th grade mile runner. I started rubbing the mile on 6th grade with no running experience and I ran a 6:15 mile. In 7th j got it down to 5:54. Now I’m in 8th grade with one meet left. Hoping for a 5:35 mile. My pr this season tho is a 5:46. My splits are good until the second and third lap. On those laps I get off pace and go back to running 5:59 pace. Idk what to do I have my last meet in 2 days. If anyone can help with pacing or what to do before the race I’ll be happy to know.

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u/Mallard_Duck06 — 10 days ago
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I'm 15, 5 foot 11, 145 ish lbs, and I run a 12.22 100m and a 24.3 200m. At the start of the season I was around 12.9 for the 1 and 26 for the 2. Im going to SC SCISA state this Saturday so I'll see how I do.

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u/Typical_Instance_887 — 13 days ago