Is This Normal - Running Competition

[purpleme12]

My child is in year 7
On Friday in assembly they were told there was an athletics running competition this week and anyone who wants to do it needs to sign up. And then they'll pick who goes through. They were told it was long distance.
My child put her name down.

Yesterday she found out she was picked with one of her friends. She found out it was 800 metres yesterday! She didn't really know what long distance looked like. And it's against other schools in our area. She had assumed it was just something in school.

However my concern more is that they've not even practiced this in PE at all! No build up or anything. The most she's run in PE is 100 metres.

Is this normal to do no practice or build up in PE for something like this?? It just seems wrong

In year 7 in the mid 90s, we got dragged onto the school field and made to do 3 laps of the school running track. The whole year group got made to do it, no excuses.
Kids were dropping like flies 😂
When I told my mum what we’d had to do, she just said “that’s nice, did you manage it ok?”
No fuss, no “but you didn’t do any training!”

Do parents question everything nowadays?

Thank you ❤️

It would be really good if she could do that or something else sporty at school. Hopefully