Congrats to Brannigan (8:42.92 at Loucks) and Maton (3:59.38 at Oregon Twilight). What phenomenal times, and they've both got more than a few races left to improve.
Congrats to Brannigan (8:42.92 at Loucks) and Maton (3:59.38 at Oregon Twilight). What phenomenal times, and they've both got more than a few races left to improve.
Lukas Verzbicas & Edward Cheserek both ran faster 3200s en route to their HS 2 mile PRs.
It's still a great run of course.
3200m is such a stupid distance.
Old record-setting becomes the new elite, old elite becomes the new sub-elite. Big thumbs up for the current crop of high school kids across the board for doing amazing things right now and advancing the sport. We don't realize how spoiled we are.
habs wrote:
Congrats to Brannigan (8:42.92 at Loucks) and Maton (3:59.38 at Oregon Twilight). What phenomenal times, and they've both got more than a few races left to improve.
It's not the fastest 3200m in 5 years. Verzbicas ran a faster outdoor 2-mile with Pro competition, and a faster indoor 2-mile with HS-only competition. Cheserek ran a faster indoor 2-mile with Pro competition.
Yes, they were 2-miles and not 3200m runs, but it's completely nonsensical to ignore the fact that both Verzbicas and Cheserek ran the 3200m times within the 2-miles. Even if you considered an impossibly bad scenario and simply set their 2-mile times as being the equivalent of their 3200m splits, they're STILL faster.
It's not the fastest 3200m in 5 years. Verzbicas ran a faster outdoor 2-mile with Pro competition, and a faster indoor 2-mile with HS-only competition. Cheserek ran a faster indoor 2-mile with Pro competition.
Yes, they were 2-miles and not 3200m runs, but it's completely nonsensical to ignore the fact that both Verzbicas and Cheserek ran the 3200m times within the 2-miles. Even if you considered an impossibly bad scenario and simply set their 2-mile times as being the equivalent of their 3200m splits, they're STILL faster.
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They weren't Americans THEN, and they're still not Americans NOW!
habs wrote:
Congrats to Brannigan (8:42.92 at Loucks) and Maton (3:59.38 at Oregon Twilight). What phenomenal times, and they've both got more than a few races left to improve.
Maton's 3:59.38 is faster than LV's 3:59.71 from 2011 so for high schoolers only its the fastest since the great Alan Webb in 2001
The track is short?
Not THEN, Not NOW! wrote:
They weren't Americans THEN, and they're still not Americans NOW!
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Verzbicas was an American then.
dwightarm wrote:
Not THEN, Not NOW! wrote:They weren't Americans THEN, and they're still not Americans NOW!
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Verzbicas was an American then.
He was not an American when he ran those times.
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