Something that irks me to no end in the sport of track and field is shoddily run meets. One issue I feel keeps kids from running track in the spring in routinely having meets that last 8 hours or more from start of the field events to the ending 4x4 relays. On one hand, this is the nature of the sport and we will most likely not see any changes at the high school level or below anytime soon. There is limited amounts of help for many meets and schools must do what they will in order to keep the meet efficient.
One thing that I have done with my cross country and track teams is to host expedited meets where there are a limited amount of events, but all types of athletes will be able to compete. One or two sprints, distance, jumps, and throws events keep the meet short and timely and makes the competition more fan friendly, but allows all to perform.
You will regularly go to full blown meets with all events if not extra, specialty events as well and these meets can take a very long time. Coaches, I highly recommend you find a strategy that makes these meets cut down on the time between events and between heats. In order to keep track and field on par with the major sports the athletes and coaches must feel that when they attend a competition it will be run professionally like a football or basketball game. Let's keep our sport respectable and put on quality competitions for these athletes!
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