HSer Katie Rainsberger Smashes Course Record With 16:22 5k

Finished with a 27 second 200! There's a lot more there!

That course is short, just like every college course used this weekend

What course?

Casa Grande in AZ. Course very flat and low 80s in the evening. Garmin read 3.15. It's legit.

Course is legit. Spot on with GPS and wheel.

Note: by the last races the course got soft and wet when the automatic golf course sprinklers came on at dusk.

Not as fast as usual due to that...

Boys didn't break 15:00 so that shows it's legit.

Coachy coach wrote:

Course is legit. Spot on with GPS and wheel.

Note: by the last races the course got soft and wet when the automatic golf course sprinklers came on at dusk.

Not as fast as usual due to that...

Boys didn't break 15:00 so that shows it's legit.

Hard to believe.

The top boy ran 15:00.8 and last track season his PRs in track were 4:27 and 9:28.

2nd place boy was 15:01.70 and has PRs of 4:24 and 9:27.

3rd place boy was 15:10.20 and has Prs of 4:25.97 and 9:27.

Based on that, if you take a boy who ran 8:57, he should be running about 45 seconds faster than the winner on this course, which would be 14:15 for 5K. I guess it's possible, but not very likely this time of the season.

That being said, even if the course was a bit short, 16:22 is flying.

Hopefully Oregon is recruiting her but she is from Colorado so is a Colorado lock????? hopefully not GO DUCKS

coach^3 wrote:

Coachy coach wrote:

Course is legit. Spot on with GPS and wheel.

Note: by the last races the course got soft and wet when the automatic golf course sprinklers came on at dusk.

Not as fast as usual due to that...

Boys didn't break 15:00 so that shows it's legit.

Hard to believe.

The top boy ran 15:00.8 and last track season his PRs in track were 4:27 and 9:28.

2nd place boy was 15:01.70 and has PRs of 4:24 and 9:27.

3rd place boy was 15:10.20 and has Prs of 4:25.97 and 9:27.

Based on that, if you take a boy who ran 8:57, he should be running about 45 seconds faster than the winner on this course, which would be 14:15 for 5K. I guess it's possible, but not very likely this time of the season.

That being said, even if the course was a bit short, 16:22 is flying.

Good point

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they call me flopro wrote:

Hopefully Oregon is recruiting her but she is from Colorado so is a Colorado lock????? hopefully not GO DUCKS

From an article a few months ago, sounds like it will probably be neither- "Rainsberger, an aspiring doctor who has a 4.5 grade-point average, can virtually choose her college. In addition to Stanford, she has interest in Michigan, where her mother competed, as well as Harvard and Georgetown."

(http://www.denverpost.com/preps/ci_28037680/air-academys-katie-rainsberger-also-fast-track-stardom)

wow. lets be honest...with all that being laid out, the course is probably 30 seconds fast.at the least.

coach^3 wrote:

Coachy coach wrote:

Course is legit. Spot on with GPS and wheel.

Note: by the last races the course got soft and wet when the automatic golf course sprinklers came on at dusk.

Not as fast as usual due to that...

Boys didn't break 15:00 so that shows it's legit.

Hard to believe.

The top boy ran 15:00.8 and last track season his PRs in track were 4:27 and 9:28.

2nd place boy was 15:01.70 and has PRs of 4:24 and 9:27.

3rd place boy was 15:10.20 and has Prs of 4:25.97 and 9:27.

Based on that, if you take a boy who ran 8:57, he should be running about 45 seconds faster than the winner on this course, which would be 14:15 for 5K. I guess it's possible, but not very likely this time of the season.

That being said, even if the course was a bit short, 16:22 is flying.

coach^3 wrote:

Coachy coach wrote:

Course is legit. Spot on with GPS and wheel.

Note: by the last races the course got soft and wet when the automatic golf course sprinklers came on at dusk.

Not as fast as usual due to that...

Boys didn't break 15:00 so that shows it's legit.

Hard to believe.

The top boy ran 15:00.8 and last track season his PRs in track were 4:27 and 9:28.

2nd place boy was 15:01.70 and has PRs of 4:24 and 9:27.

3rd place boy was 15:10.20 and has Prs of 4:25.97 and 9:27.

Based on that, if you take a boy who ran 8:57, he should be running about 45 seconds faster than the winner on this course, which would be 14:15 for 5K. I guess it's possible, but not very likely this time of the season.

That being said, even if the course was a bit short, 16:22 is flying.

But third place boy did run 15:01 at the mt. sac invitational last year as a sophomore...probably had a bad track season

And ran some of the fastest freshman and sophomore times at some of California's prestigious course's, and beat a dyestat preseason #67 runner in a meet early in September...I think you are all overlooking the jumps these runners had. First and second improved by about 30 seconds from last years race as well. Not to mention one of the top milers in the nation this past track season, Carlos Villareal, ran 14:49 at the same meet last year. Took I think around 20th at nxn.

Welcome to Oregon Katie GO DUCKS BABY YEAH :)

Maybe she'll go to Michigan like mom. Or Colorado. Or even Boise State. New Mexico isn't that far away and they are on a roll.

Stay away from Oregon!

Spoke too soon, but it's too late.

17:05 season's best so far at altitude. Many letsrunners don't believe in a difference due to altitude, but that's roughly 30 sec for a 5K.

just the facts jack wrote:

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they call me flopro wrote:

Hopefully Oregon is recruiting her but she is from Colorado so is a Colorado lock????? hopefully not GO DUCKS

From an article a few months ago, sounds like it will probably be neither- "Rainsberger, an aspiring doctor who has a 4.5 grade-point average, can virtually choose her college. In addition to Stanford, she has interest in Michigan, where her mother competed, as well as Harvard and Georgetown."

(http://www.denverpost.com/preps/ci_28037680/air-academys-katie-rainsberger-also-fast-track-stardom)

So...what happened to her wanting to be a doctor?

Well she obviously can still go to medical school, but it appears she may not have had the scores for these other top schools. There is some very extreme grade inflation at some schools especially in middle America. Compared to these other schools, picking Oregon is basically put all the eggs in the running basket. Good luck to her.

Katie got into Stanford. She CHOSE to go to Oregon. Not every runner who gets into Stanford chooses to go there.

Katie was accepted into Stanford. Chose to go to Oregon. Truth.

Don't assume you know anything about why other people's choices get made.