Holy Smokes High School Frosh 4:17 miler!!

....commence bashing of noob letsrun poster...aaaand GO

I wanna say 4:06 is the Mile FR record?

Was that the "full mile"?

Partied in Atlanta wrote:

Was that the "full mile"?

My bad it was 1600m. The distance it takes you to run in 5:00. Must sting to know a 14 year old can run faster than you ever have you punk bitch

The record holder is Sintayehu Taye of Portland H.S. in Maine, 4:09.69 set in 2005.

Frosh competitor at a nearby HS ran 4:19 for the mile and that was 1975, damn near 40yrs ago.

Anybody else notice the 4:19 freshman in there as well? Going to be a good battle for the next few years hopefully. Anybody know if these guys are close to each other so they might compete a few times throughout the season, or will it just come down to postseason stuff?

What happened to Taye in college?

Hopefully you haven't forgot Blake Haney... He ran 4:12 back 2 years ago at the state meet as a frosh. We will see how good this kid becomes in a few years

'High School Frosh'

Instead up writing all this crap can you not just put their age?

This early in the season in a tri-meet is pretty eye opening. Got to imagine he will be threatening that 4:09 by the state meet.

My high school had a freshman go 17 for 1600 26 years ago but he ran that at the end of the season. He only improved 2 more seconds and that was the next year. He just didn't like running much and didn't run at all in the off season.

Born in 97 according to the JO's from 2011

yoyomama wrote:

Born in 97 according to the JO's from 2011

Then not the same. Big difference between a 14 year old and a 15 year old in maturity. Still one to look out for.

My long term bets are on Rocha but obviously both quite good. Ogden too. Tamagno looks to be 1 yr older but it all works out sooner or later in HS..

Keep in mind Haney ran 4:12 as a frosh a couple years ago. He's done well since then with a good coach, but this kid's team is not known for having as good of a coach as teams like haney's. he's not going to progress to become the next great american high school distance runner. He'll be a playa on the state level and maybe the national level as he matures though. but he won't be great

Yeah I'm in the same league as this guy. I think we have a race coming up in mid april and another fast school. I'm supposed to be racing the 1600 leader of California Corcoran this week. They are blazing fast, and their fast times and a few others have been really making the league extremely competitive over the past 2 years.

Armchair Miler wrote:

Partied in Atlanta wrote:

Was that the "full mile"?

My bad it was 1600m. The distance it takes you to run in 5:00. Must sting to know a 14 year old can run faster than you ever have you punk bitch

Why you gettin all hostile on him? I think he was asking a legit question...

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yoyomama wrote:

Born in 97 according to the JO's from 2011

Then not the same. Big difference between a 14 year old and a 15 year old in maturity. Still one to look out for.

Exactly what sort of big difference is there?

Entirely case dependent and not knowing these guys, I have no idea. COuld (or could not) be significant though. Guy I golf with grew 3 inches in *college*. I was my adult height in 8th or 9th grade.