Brandon McGorty (The 3rd Brother) opens season with 2:28 1000

For a 1:52 guy, 2:28 is probably worth 4:17-18 in the mile.

4:10... What are you smoking?

Junior or Senior

Nope. Nope no. 4:14

Hmm, maybe that explains why he ran 4:18 a couple weeks ago???? smh catch up with the times guys

I'm impressed that a high school kid can run this is December!..... but don't go saying how incredible he is.remember when Cheserek closed the last 1000m of the men's mile Final race against Soratos in 2:19 indoorsme too

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Brother of Sean (Stanford) and Ryan (William and Mary), Brandon ran a 2:28 this past weekend, which is worth about a 4:10 1600.

Sean ran 2:28 as a senior indoors and went on to go 4:03/8:45 in the 1600/2-mile.

Brandon seems to be a little faster at the shorter distances. He has an 800 PR of 1:52. Would be a good addition to the Stanford mid-dist squad IMO

br0ski wrote:

Nope. Nope no. 4:14

We has a guy run 2:27/4:09. He was definitely a 1500/5k guy though and didn't have 1:52 speed (more like 1:55 high)

sadfasdf@asfdasf.com wrote:

br0ski wrote:

Nope. Nope no. 4:14

We has a guy run 2:27/4:09. He was definitely a 1500/5k guy though and didn't have 1:52 speed (more like 1:55 high)

Right, so if he has 1:52 speed that means his endurance is not as good as your boy's, and thus he would probably run closer to 4:18 for a mile with his 2:28.

Brandon appears to have some kind of freakish athletic prowess very different from the rest of his family. I haven't seen mentioned here so far that he split 1:50 in a 4x800 last year and even more impressive IMO is that he has a PB in the high jump of 6'6".

I noticed his mid distance times as a frosh and naturally assumed because he was a McGorty that he would eventually move up to become a great 1600m, 3200m & XC runner like his brother. It appears that he is more comfortable developing his talents in the shorter distances for now, with an occasional mile mixed in.

Make no mistake though, his raw athletic ability is amazing. If he decides to bump his mileage and go for a fast mile in the next year and a half look out. If not I would not be surprised to see him go sub 1:50 as a junior this year.

There's one high school race I would absolutely pay to see:

January 30th....Virginia Tech High School Invitational

Boys 1000m.....B. McGorty vs. Drew Hunter

Don't think they could get Webb's 2:23.6 record, but it would be cool to see two high school boys run 2:25 flat in the same race.

(You know Hunter can, and McGorty's 2:28, while on a decent track in Landover, MD, was a solo effort and the Virginia Tech banked track should be good for a second or two alone).

Thoughts?

Old Man Winter wrote:

sadfasdf@asfdasf.com wrote:

We has a guy run 2:27/4:09. He was definitely a 1500/5k guy though and didn't have 1:52 speed (more like 1:55 high)

Right, so if he has 1:52 speed that means his endurance is not as good as your boy's, and thus he would probably run closer to 4:18 for a mile with his 2:28.

This is some of the worst logic I've ever heard. By your count, a 1:50 800 would be worse than a 2:00 800 guy at the 1500/1600. I'll be sure to tell my distance runners to cruise it in the last 100/200 meters of their 800 so they don't run slower mile times??????

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If runner A and runner B both have the same 1000m time, and runner A has a faster 800m time, then it stands to reason that runner B likely has a faster mile time.