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

Just another running guy wrote:

How would you know?

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

It's not crazy slow either. Straight shot off the gun and a left across the track. Most turns are winding, not tight turn arounds or 90 degree turns. It's fast, so I don't know what Nick Rockford is talking about. I pr'd by 22 seconds and was top 10 in 2000.So I was there when Dathan ran 14:10, the same course that he ran 14:35 on the year before. He went by 2 miles in 8:58 and there is video of it somewhere...it's a fast course. If there's anything that someone would consider a hill, I must have slept thru it. So yes, accurate, very accurate, but also very fast. 14:10 is probably the all-time cross country fastest time unless Prefontaine beat it.

Nick Rockford wrote:

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.

Hey, guy from kentwood xc here

No the cource is definitely not fast!! He ran as a junior at the same time my current xc coach was a senior. Because of that I have met him and talked to him about his races. I have also ran on the cource and I can tell you for a fact that it is just a normal cource. Not fast at all

No the cource is definitely not fast!! He ran as a junior at the same time my current xc coach was a senior. Because of that I have met him and talked to him about his races. I have also ran on the cource and I can tell you for a fact that it is just a normal cource. Not fast at all

Makes sense Ritz had the fastest ever HS cross country 5K time, as he was the greatest high school XC runner of all time, bar none.

GoldenMiles wrote:

Makes sense Ritz had the fastest ever HS cross country 5K time, as he was the greatest high school XC runner of all time, bar none.

Not that he didn't have a solid career, but he should've stuck with XC for a longer period of time. It would've been interesting to see how he would've fared on the international scene circa 2007.

Dayton brown wrote:

No the cource is definitely not fast!! He ran as a junior at the same time my current xc coach was a senior. Because of that I have met him and talked to him about his races. I have also ran on the cource and I can tell you for a fact that it is just a normal cource. Not fast at all

"cource"?

"have ran"?

I take it you're not in Honors English...

disambiguation wrote:

This is a matter of sport dialect:

5k is a standard distance for cross country and road race competitions

-- vs --

5000 meters which is track race; i.e. 12 1/2 laps on a 400 meter track

There might be other performances out there in the 14:00-14:15 range from one-off courses but Ritzenhein's 14:12 should stand as the accepted fastest because it was done at his state championships. The course itself is probably flat but certainly not short.

it's a 3 mile course

I ran a 13:52 time trial on the Balboa Park course last week. So I guess this is it.

no wrote:

disambiguation wrote:

This is a matter of sport dialect:

5k is a standard distance for cross country and road race competitions

-- vs --

5000 meters which is track race; i.e. 12 1/2 laps on a 400 meter track

There might be other performances out there in the 14:00-14:15 range from one-off courses but Ritzenhein's 14:12 should stand as the accepted fastest because it was done at his state championships. The course itself is probably flat but certainly not short.

it's a 3 mile course

Wrong. It's 5k.

mi state course wrote:

no wrote:

it's a 3 mile course

Wrong. It's 5k.

I've run in the state meet twice. It's 3 miles not 5k.

Too bad that Ritz didn't do much after HS...

-Uncico Coleman 😘

no wrote:

disambiguation wrote:

This is a matter of sport dialect:

5k is a standard distance for cross country and road race competitions

-- vs --

5000 meters which is track race; i.e. 12 1/2 laps on a 400 meter track

There might be other performances out there in the 14:00-14:15 range from one-off courses but Ritzenhein's 14:12 should stand as the accepted fastest because it was done at his state championships. The course itself is probably flat but certainly not short.

it's a 3 mile course

It's definitely not a 3 mile course. Or fast. I've been there 4 years in a row, I've watched Grant Fisher run there and that course may not be super hilly, but it's not a fast course. There's always about 3-4 inches of mud, especially later in the day when the D1 races are held.

no in mich wrote:

mi state course wrote:

Wrong. It's 5k.

I've run in the state meet twice. It's 3 miles not 5k.

So have I. You're a moron.

false wrote:

It's definitely not a 3 mile course. Or fast. I've been there 4 years in a row, I've watched Grant Fisher run there and that course may not be super hilly, but it's not a fast course. There's always about 3-4 inches of mud, especially later in the day when the D1 races are held.

It can be a blazing fast course if the ground is right and if it's not windy

What's a cource? It must be important that you had to double post about it.

Rexing 13:55 in trainers

Mike M. wrote:

Prefontaine ran 13:39.6

No, Not in high school. They didn't even run a 5k xc distance in OR High School at the time (4k only).

Ritz's 14:10 is the fastest 5k high school performance to date.