What is high school track and field like?

I'm a junior in high school and I'm determined to join the track team in the spring, for the first time.


I recently lost thirty pounds by simple exercising and diet, but I haven't ran in a while.


I want to know what track will be like. As in the schedule, the running, and anything else.


Thank you.|||For my school it goes something like:


practice every from 3:00-5:00. Workouts would usually alternate between difficult or just plain recovery.


Our dual meets would take place once a week. Invitationals are usually always on weekends. I'm assuming you're going into long distance running. I'd suggest to work out casually from now til then.





Just try to stay in shape because when the times comes and you're not in shape, the first week is gonna feel like complete, utter HELL, haha. Monitor your progress and run an official mile every now and then and time it.


I'll tell you this now and I'm going to be blunt: Try to be good. Alot of people who tend to do track don't stay dedicated to it. They show up every other day just because teams are big and coaches don't want to waste time keeping track of who's there and who's not unless you're among the top 8 or so for whatever event you're doing in your division. Stay dedicated. If you don't feel like you're up to it based on your times and whatnot, then work to the point where you'll feel like you can do decently. So when the season rolls around you'll already be ahead of the game. I'm sprinter so I don't know much about improving endurance or distance running through various methods but do your research and ask around. I'm pretty there's more workouts out there other than just running miles that'll improve your stamina and speed.





The fact that you've loss so much weight and came on here to ask this question tells me that you want to take track seriously and I commend you for that.|||Well for my school, a typical day goes like this...





Practice from 3:30-5:30


Warm up as a whole team, then break up into sections for separate workouts (pole vaulters, shot putters, sprinters, distance...)


Then you have meets with other schools about 3 times a week