{"comments":{"912862":{"pb_id":"33610","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"912862","comment_id":"912862","member_id":"33610","comment":"Mike,  first off thanks so much for all you do for this sport.  Not having you in the truck as the spotter ?  Really?  I think the problem is a lack of sensibility to distance running.  My runners have an hour of preparation before a race,  it is consistent and we follow that routine before every race.  With the girls race in limbo, and the start time of the races unknown I had my runner kinda hanging out waiting to see what was going to  happen.  I was thinking that they were going to start the girls race and then start the next race an hour from that and just move everything back for the day.  At 9:30 they announce the boys race will be at 10:00 and there is only a half an hour before that race.  In a Tuesday meet, no problem,  we can tempo run it.  State Championship?  I understand that things happen,  anything can go wrong at anytime,  but it is how we respond to adversity that makes the difference.  What do you do as a coach,  have them warm up and the race not start for a couple hours? Have them not warm up and start the race at a proper interval between races?  <br \/>\r\n  I felt sorry for the class a girls who had to stand around and wait.  Can you imagine getting yourself focused and all the hype for the start of the State Championship, and then it is a half an hour before the gun goes off and you have to stay at the start line the whole time?  Cross country is such a mental sport.  When things get out of wac it is really tough to get that back.  I saw several performances from girls that we&#039;re not consistent with the way they ran all year.  Did it alter the outcome?  Certainly not with st. T, but it may have for other teams.  You can say the same thing about the boys class a race too.  I think a runner would have made a different decision at both the cross country and track championships.  Someone who has runner sensibilities is going to take those things into consideration.  <br \/>\r\nMy distance runner at State track ran an 800 in the 4 x 800, a 3200 and a 1600 in around two hours,  if we were on the schedule he would have had close to four and a half. Does that change the performance of a distance runner?  You bet it does.  If My guy would have not gone down in the 1600, We would have gotten Third place.  <br \/>\r\nI understand organizing and putting on a state meet is a huge task,  but when decision are made they need to be made within the mindset of what is best for the kids.  Maybe get a runner in there somewhere!","date_added":"Nov 15th 2013, 11:04pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":101042,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"i\/no_avatar.png","pb_title":"coachbehm","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=33610","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/coachbe.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"813994"},"912784":{"pb_id":"33610","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"912784","comment_id":"912784","member_id":"33610","comment":"I am crying!  That is so funny!","date_added":"Nov 15th 2013, 10:13pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":[],"can_delete":false,"item_id":101042,"item_type":"video","pb_image":"i\/no_avatar.png","pb_title":"coachbehm","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=33610","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/coachbe.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"813994"}},"last_id":"912784","url":"comments.php?item_type=video&item_id=101042&item_url=profile.php?member_id=33610"}