What is the fastest high school cross country 5k ever?

Rupp, Lindgren, Derrick (high school only race).

Ritzenhein ran 14:10 at the state meet of Michigan.

Chris derrick ran a 13:55 by himself at arcadia if I remember correctly. Lindgren probably has the fastest though. I don't know.

wasn't that on a track?

also ritz won by well over a minute in his btw

Rupp 13:37.91, 7-31-2004, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

Lindgren 13:44.0, 6-5-1964, Compton.

For a high school only race:

Derrick 13:55.96, 12-4-2008, Arcadia.

Derrick's Splits: 68, 2:16 (68), 3:24 (68), 4:33 (69), 5:41 (68), 6:48 (67), 7:56 (68), 9:03 (67), 10:10 (67), 11:17 (67), 12:23 (66), 13:25 (62), 13:55.96 (30.96).

Event 34 Men 5000 Meter Run Invitational

================================================================

Name Year School Finals

================================================================

1 Derrick, Chris 12 Neuqua Vlly (Il) 13:55.96

2 Smith, Doug 11 Gill St. Ber(NJ) 14:35.32

3 Prentice, Ryan 12 Mt. Rainier (Wa) 14:41.96

4 Beach, Nate 12 Acalanes 14:57.03

5 Solis, Anthony 12 Barstow 15:05.59

6 Benavides, Phillip 12 Alhambra 15:06.81

7 Parish, Laine 12 Cheyenne Cen(WY) 15:16.70

8 Machado, Michael 12 North Monter 15:19.55

9 Poizat, Renaud 11 Arcadia 15:19.57

10 Kleinsasser, Eric 12 Crescenta Vl 15:21.05

11 Dawson, Jake 11 Newport Harb 15:29.98

12 Kelly, Nickolas 12 Granite Hill 15:36.33

13 Huff, Austin 12 Cheyenne E (Wy) 15:37.43

14 van halen, aric 12 Oakwood 15:40.47

15 Schelling, Josh 12 Galena (Nv) 15:40.48

16 Kooshain, Christian 12 Muir 15:45.85

17 Ems, Steven 12 Alta Loma 15:50.64

18 Alvarez, Tyler 12 Dana Hills 16:07.28

19 Wilkens, Billy Inglemoor (Wa) 16:28.74

Note the op's post, its fastest high school CROSS COUNTRY 5k, not track. Rupp, Derrick and Lindgren's were all on the track.

Ritz'z 14:10 from the 2000 Michigan State meet is most likely it. Second and third were 15:05 and 15:06 (third being Tim Moore who placed 8th at FLXC a few weeks later).

Gerry Lindgren. 16:08 on the Mt. SAC XC course. Works out to about 12:32 for 5k.

RWD: If you could go back and change one race, which race would it be? What would be the outcome?

GL: If I could go back and change one race, I would change the Olympic 10,000-meter race in 1964. Before that race, I had raced a four-mile race on the Mt. SAC cross country course. Someone came to our training camp and said there was a race at Mt. SAC that morning. Almost all the distance runners went down to get in a good workout. At the start I sprinted out at a controlled panic and kept up my panic through the whole race. My time of 16:08 over the four-mile course gave me an average mile pace of 4:02!...

http://www.howtobefit.com/gerry-lindgren.htm

fuser wrote:

...also ritz won by well over a minute in his btw

I guess that could be true...if 55 seconds is well over a minute.

How I wonder, did nobody else at any of the mile markers not realize this?

Not one single picture

its mind-bottling

Snoop Doggy Dogg - 20:43

o.O wrote:

How I wonder, did nobody else at any of the mile markers not realize this?

Not one single picture

its mind-bottling

Yes, your mind is clearly in a bottle.

How would you know?

Even assuming all of the possible courses were measured correctly (big assumption), the courses still aren't identical.

Windham invitational

Windham, CT

On a short course - stick with the track for times

So is Ritz's the fastest CROSS COUNTRY 5k ever? I didn't get a definitive answer from this.

Helluva Runner wrote:

So is Ritz's the fastest CROSS COUNTRY 5k ever? I didn't get a definitive answer from this.

Yes, nobody has run faster than that. The course he ran it on is pretty fast, but accurate.

Prefontaine ran 13:39.6

I am from Rockford and ran on the XC team 2013 and 2014. Dathan also went to Rockford. My Senior year we went to state and won. The course is a solid course, but is not crazy fast. As far as I know he has the fastest high school XC time.