Read this article. I am very impressed with the quartet.
Also, take a look at their times from last season. What I’d like to know, is what did they do in the past few moths so differently to get such an improvement from last year to this one?
New Bern HS (NC) takes aim at Muir HS (CA) all time high school relay marks
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You do realize that the most amazing thing is they are coached by the author of “The Notebook” and other top selling novels that the female gender is in awe of.
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KeymasterYou do realize that the most amazing thing is they are coached by the author of “The Notebook” and other top selling novels that the female gender is in awe of.
That’s awesome. I didn’t put that together. I knew the name sounded VERY familiar but I couldn’t figure out where I’d heard it from.
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That article is a great read. Really shows you how unbelievable that Muir squad was. I had just made the transition from HS to college when they were at their peak and Obea was like a mini track diety. Anyone know what Muir did for training? Or what this NC team does?
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That article is a great read. Really shows you how unbelievable that Muir squad was. I had just made the transition from HS to college when they were at their peak and Obea was like a mini track diety. Anyone know what Muir did for training? Or what this NC team does?
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I believe Dyestat or someone did an article last year on Mr. Sparks and the training.
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They handle huge volumes. The New Bern kids train with track Eastern Carolina during the summers as well and this group of atletes has been at it for quite a few years.
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As Mike said, those articles out there are interesting reads. Some of the boards on the dyestat web pages also give a bit of insight, if not directly to New Bern HS, then more generally to the way humans are.
There are a few undertones of dislike/discord/”hating” about many things from athletes being 19 (implication being typically older than most HS), to the HS team not being composed entirely of athletes from a single HS (or at least all of the time), to the following of rules (the coach being asked to no longer actively coach the HS per se by the school administration to wearing TEC body suits at a high school “only” meet).
I am not saying anything one way or the other, I certainly don’t know all the ins and outs of situations distant from me or how factual those boards are, just that it makes for interesting reading and if you go a little further afield some of the background, from Simplot Games for example (the relationship Muir had there) is also informative. Again, completely as an outside observer.
About the athletes themselves both individually and as a team, to me the thing that stands out is the range of distances they are obviously more than capable of at high levels of competition (200s to 800s). The other thing that stands out is the situation as it appears to be, that being the athletes “reacting” well to someone (or more than one) showing some interest in their lives. I can not tell you how often it is not the exact specifics of what an athlete does, at this age, but that they have a bit of guidance/caring that does the most good. There also seems to be, again, a common thread: someone who cared, improvement in facilities, skilled coaching and, clearly, financial support does not hurt.
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They handle huge volumes. The New Bern kids train with track Eastern Carolina during the summers as well and this group of atletes has been at it for quite a few years.
Interesting. So I’m assuming they’re doing a tempo based training program? What kind of volumes are we talking about?
On a related note, I remember trying to find out what Muir did when I was in college and I found all kinds of crazy things…including someone who said that Obea ran almost 100 miles per week.
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https://www.dyestat.com/?pg=us2008IndoorTrackNike-Indoor-Nationals-NewBern-Feature-SteveU
Not overtraining is another big Sparks principle, as he himself was hurt a lot in college for doing so. “We never do more than 25 miles a week and we never train more than five days a week,” he says. “One of the things I’m most proud of is our lack of injuries.”
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There are a few undertones of dislike/discord/”hating” about many things from athletes being 19 (implication being typically older than most HS), to the HS team not being composed entirely of athletes from a single HS (or at least all of the time), to the following of rules (the coach being asked to no longer actively coach the HS per se by the school administration to wearing TEC body suits at a high school “only” meet).
last year they were listed as soph now they are seniors, same thing with jermaine brown what grade is that kid in 10 or 11
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They set two meet records on saturday at NIN.
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