Winners of this thread so far:
Men- Frank Shorter
Women- Abby D and Frerichs in a tie, with O'Connor right behind.
Winners of this thread so far:
Men- Frank Shorter
Women- Abby D and Frerichs in a tie, with O'Connor right behind.
They also both ran collegiately at South Dakota State University together.
Those were very respectable times for 1998. Probably the way someone would look at a 4:10 guy now.
Daniel Lincoln was a 4:11-4:13 walk on...[/quote]
Wrong. 4:17 9:35 in 1998. So a little faster than thought but not close to what he achieved later[/quote]
Jennifer Bergman former University of Arizona runner,
2x Track all-America (3rd & 6th in 10k), XC All-America:
5:10 for 1600
2:25 for 800
Granted she was a footlocker finalist in XC.
Emily Stites William and Mary
18min 5k in high school - 15:43 by the end of her senior year
If you don't put a time limit on it then all you have to do is look pretty far back in years and you'll find someone "slow" because everyone was slower. 1964 NCAA XC champ Elmore Barton only ran two years in high school and I don't know if he ran track at all.
Eric Finan who went to Cincinnati. Ran 4:16/9:35, became an all American and has run 13:37 and sub 4 in the mile!
Dime a dozen. If he ran 13:37 coming off 4:35/9:55, that might be somewhat interesting.
GORUN1600 wrote:
Eric Finan who went to Cincinnati. Ran 4:16/9:35, became an all American and has run 13:37 and sub 4 in the mile!
(Future)
SpeedDemon8956
To even be mentioned in this list the runner shouldn't have run under 4:20 or 9:30 in HS for guys... 5:20 or 11:30 for girls (1600m/3200m).
Those are pretty good times that would be top 5 runners on over 99% of HS XC teams across the nation.
People like Chad Pearson (former NC State AA) with a PR around 9:40-50 for 3200m (and worse at 1600m I think) are the more surprising ones.
HS XC times from HS are next to irrelevant in any discussion as course difficulty, length accuracy, and weather are such huge factors.
PS- I'm not Chad Pearson, just from North Carolina
But not quite enough to learn how to spell her name.
johnny dangerously wrote:
Good one. I love Abby D.
Rules wrote:
To even be mentioned in this list the runner shouldn't have run under 4:20 or 9:30 in HS for guys... 5:20 or 11:30 for girls (1600m/3200m).
Those are pretty good times that would be top 5 runners on over 99% of HS XC teams across the nation.
Precisely. Somebody throw us some gems in the 4:30's/9:50's.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Rest in Peace Adrian Lehmann - 2:11 Swiss marathoner. Dies of heart attack.
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year