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[QUOTE="Conrad13, post: 3054053, member: 3186"]
I played basketball in between cross country and track seasons in HS and I wonder how much it impacted my running performances. My times got much better when I ran year round in college, so maybe. I do think that taking a break from running lots of miles might have spared me an injury or two. Lots of PTs are encouraging distance runners to do more lateral movements and these days I do old basketball defense drills to keep my aging bod from getting injured. In the end, I don't think that I'd change anything because even though I wasn't good at it, I enjoyed playing basketball and it wasn't like I was coming into track season completely out of shape.

One thing that I've learned since high school that totally makes sense is that distance running converts some fast twitch muscle fibers to behave more like slow twitch muscles. The muscles convert back to fast twitch muscles when the endurance training stops. I remember how much higher I could jump by the end of basketball season after a couple of months off from distance running.
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