How many of your HS graduating class broke 5:00 for the 1600 and how big was it?

i meant 4/214, sorry

We had 22 break 5:00 in the mile.

Class size was 788.

(22/788) x 100 = 2.79%

(4/214) x 100 = 1.87%

Beat ya!

The year I graduated the track team had had 6 people break 5:00 for 1600, two from my class. There was another kid in my class who broke 5 in previous years but not his senior year. One of the six was a chick.

one. And it wasn't me as I ran the 800 exclusively that year.

Im going to be the only one in my graduating class that broke five

My high school had a graduating class of about 500.

When I was a senior (actually when I was a junior too), we had 4 guys in the school who could break 5 minutes; 3 of us were seniors, one a junior. For me the following is correct. I could be off a little with remembering about the other three.

Me - 4:32 (open) 4:30 in a relay

JS - 4:36

TM - 4:40

PS - 4:44 (he did that as a junior...dipped down to 4:36 as a senior after I had graduated)

The TM referenced above only ran the 1600 one time...in a 4x6400 relay that our team won. He was a sub 2:00 800 meter runner and probably could have run faster had we given him more attempts.

Mine only had a grad class of 160

Only me and one other guy broke 5. We were the only ones on the team that could =(

Me- 4:39

Friend - 4:54

I was one of two from a class of about 200. A third guy from cross country could have but played tennis instead of track. Our team was weak overall, although my friend got fourth at state with a school record 4:18 (full mile). If I break 5:00 this year it will be my 40th anniversary of first doing so.

-I'm the only one.

-Ran 4:42

-Second fastest guy was 5:20

-65 kids in my class

I graduated in a class of 116 and we had 5 break 5:00 in the 1600. 4.3%

Actually there probably was one more...guy who ran CC but played baseball in the spring. Word had it he ran 4:57, but I never saw it. Based on his CC times though, that would have been possible.

Flagpole wrote:

My high school had a graduating class of about 500.

When I was a senior (actually when I was a junior too), we had 4 guys in the school who could break 5 minutes; 3 of us were seniors, one a junior. For me the following is correct. I could be off a little with remembering about the other three.

Me - 4:32 (open) 4:30 in a relay

JS - 4:36

TM - 4:40

PS - 4:44 (he did that as a junior...dipped down to 4:36 as a senior after I had graduated)

The TM referenced above only ran the 1600 one time...in a 4x6400 relay that our team won. He was a sub 2:00 800 meter runner and probably could have run faster had we given him more attempts.

I was the only one in my class of nearly 200. Others could have, but they did not like such a "long" distance.

800 person graduating class

one person. Me.

All the endurance types were swimmers - we had a state champion level swim and water polo program. Even some olympians.

5, 1 being a girl who was runner up in the 1600 and state champ in the 3200.

all times are approximate

girl: 4:57

me: 4:23

guy 1: 4:19

guy 2: 4:35ish

guy 3: 4:40ish

About 150 in my class. None broke 5

Class of 299

2 broke 5

My best friend- 4:20

Me- 4:40

There was two others who could have done it, but one didn't run track and the other only did 800's.

Class of 117 - NOBODY broke 5.

In fact, I think we might have had only 3-5 on the track team from our class and they weren't mid/distance runners. I didn't run track either but specifically remember winning our gym class mile in 7:30! lol. I think when people talk about average mile time for a teenager, they need to consider schools like mine where the guys were finishing in 10-flat or walking it in after a half mile.

The year before us we had a 4:27 miler who went D1 and 400 meter guy in the class below mine who went to Army/West Point. I'd say after the 4:27 guy left, that probably a decade went by before our school had a sub-5 guy.

Our school was backwoods/northern redneck. Football, Basketball, Hunting, and Nascar are all that mattered.

Flagpole wrote:

My high school had a graduating class of about 500.

When I was a senior (actually when I was a junior too), we had 4 guys in the school who could break 5 minutes; 3 of us were seniors, one a junior. For me the following is correct. I could be off a little with remembering about the other three.

Me - 4:32 (open) 4:30 in a relay

JS - 4:36

TM - 4:40

PS - 4:44 (he did that as a junior...dipped down to 4:36 as a senior after I had graduated)

The TM referenced above only ran the 1600 one time...in a 4x6400 relay that our team won. He was a sub 2:00 800 meter runner and probably could have run faster had we given him more attempts.

Damn! A 4x6400 meter relay, over 16 miles on the track is a long way. You guys must have been out there for an hour and a half!

At the time I graduated we had 3 seniors under 5, though a total of 5 guys at the time could go under 5. Class was 180 people.

I ran 4:41.9

4:39

4:49

Had a junior go 4:44 and a guy in my graduating class who ran 4:45 or so as a junior.

Counting just the seniors, 2.2%.