How good of a time is 4:37 1600m for a 14 yr old? D1 potential?
How good of a time is 4:37 1600m for a 14 yr old? D1 potential?
very fine start. The record for a freshman is around 4:09 but they can be 15. Obviously D1 potential. But not everyone develops. If he drops 30 seconds in high school, he should go pretty high D1. If he drops 20, he'll be one among hundreds every year.
can he/she grow a beard?
Just 23 freshman ran 4:37 or faster indoors. So, it pretty good.
Leader indoors was 4:23 for 9th graders.
That would have qualified for the fresman mile at national indoors. So pretty good.
If he knocks 30+ seconds off in the next several years then yes. Fact is, times for 14-15 yr old boys can be as much a measure of puberty as talent.
It all depends on how long he's been running. If he is doing it mainly on talent then he probably has a ways to improve. If he's been logging a lot of miles and training pretty consistenly for a couple of years, then it's a bit harder to say. Does he have much foot speed? Open 400M time? Lots of factors here.
I hate to break it to you buddy but there are not hundreds of 4:17 milers. A little over 100 yes but 4:17 is still plenty good to run division 1.
312th HS Mark last year in the 1600 converted to Mile / Mile (from Milesplit) was 4:17.98. (we all know that a kid who runs 4:17.99 is going to call himself a 4:17 miler. Throw in the kids that run 1500s in their HS competitions (e.g. Oregon) that would put them at 4:17.99 and the kids missed by Milesplit and you are well over 300 and possibly 350. Either way it is "hundreds".
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon